I’m going into my 2nd month of grade 12 which is absolutely crazy to me, time has felt like it has gone by so fast. According to one of my teachers every 4 weeks is equal to 10% of the course meaning I’ve already completed over 10% of grade 12. I still remember my first day of grade 8, the…
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The Vietnam War and Conceptual Art
Throughout this past term we grained a deeper understanding regarding the events of the Vietnam War and the meaning of Conceptual Art. After focusing on these subjects, we then took what we learned and created a piece of conceptual art telling a story about some aspect of the Vietnam war. For my piece of conceptual art I decided to…
TPOLs 2019
TPOLs!! We’ve done them since grade eight so you can probably expect what they are going to be about. The usual course: I did this piece of work, didn’t understand it but then after the project my understanding grew. But this year I decided to change it up, instead of doing the usual: this is the work I’m proud of,…
Ending The Year Strong With PGP
PGP has been a huge part throughout this past year in PLP, from learning to properly time block our schedules to setting goals in all our academic courses. This course has really helped me focus in on the steps I need to take to become a more productive and critical student towards my use of time. With this course being…
A Time When The World Was On The Brink…
The fear of nuclear bombs destroying the entire world today kind of seems like a foreign idea to me. Sure in the news I’ve hear about the major nuclear powers of the world yet it’s never really been out on the top of my mind. However there was a period of time where people all around the world felt the…
Willie O’Ree, An Individual Who Changed A System
After watching the video above hopefully you have a vague idea of what this blog post is going to be about. If not, no worries you’re in luck I’m going to be taking you through this post every step of the way. This video project we created was the final part of our unit called “We Shall Overcome” which is…
Civil Right Movement
“We Shall Overcome” was a gospel song that became known as the anthem of the civil rights unit. A symbol of hope for peace and equality in America throughout this time in history. This song is the name of the unit we just finished about the civil rights unit. When I learned we were going to be doing this…
Marching for Peace and Equal Rights
If you were given the question “How can the actions of an individual change a system?” Would you be able to answer it? How about if it was regarding contemporary and historical civil rights in America? Well this is exactly what we were tasked to write about in this blog post. The unit we are learning about right now is…
Productivity, Goal Settings and Habits=A Successful Student
So far this year has been very busy for me, trying to balance school and my highly competitive basketball. My goal is always to be as successful as possible in all of my classes and meet the expectations I have set out for myself. However at points I feel overwhelmed with the amount of work I have and always struggle…
Taking it Back All The Way To The 1950s!
Since grade 8, our PLP 11 class has done 3 winter exhibitions and 3 end of the year Blue Sky exhibitions. So going into my 7th overall exhibition you would think it would be pretty easy as I’ve done it so many times before. However, this exhibition was a little different than what we typically do. Instead of creating individual…