Hello parents, teachers and potential blog viewers and welcome to my blog. Today we are doing something special, my grade 11 tPOL or transitional presentation of learning. As I reflect on this turbulent and important year of learning I have really thought about what I accomplished as a PLP learner. Surprisingly as I reflect on […]
Change My Mind
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today we are taking a look back at our latest project, “change my mind, adversaries to allies”. As you may have guessed through the title the projects whole goal was to change minds. Who’s mind I had to change was up to me. The whole idea was […]
My Thoughts On Award Shows
Hello everyone today I want to convince you, the reader that celebrity award shows are increasingly unpopular, biased, unreliable and an overall waste of time. While right off the bat that sound very harsh and personally biased, I am here to convince you that this is the truth despite what the die hard fan base […]
Hide Your Fires
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today we are going to be reflecting on our most recent PLP project, Hide Your Fires. Based around Shakespeare’s Macbeth or the Scottish play, this project combined our adaptation skills and our film making expertise to create an adaptation of Macbeth set in the 1950’s. This Cold […]
Sounds of Poetry
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. As yet another PLP project come to a close its time to reflect on the learning that happened and my growth as a student. The “sounds of poetry” project has been a short and sweet project with the goal of answering the driving question, “How might we […]
The Manhattan Project, Project?
As our most recent humanities 11/12 project comes to an end it is time to reflect on my growth as a learner as I progressed through this project. This project was based around three cornerstone ideas, historical Significance, conceptual art and the Manhattan project. These three ideas came together to create the Manhattan project, project. […]
Hiroshima: The Subversion of the American Worldview
Hiroshima by John Hersey is a unique literary masterpiece that single-handedly subverted the American public opinion on the godlike power of the atom. Hersey’s book documents six people’s tales on their survival of the atomic bomb and their life after. Due to Hersey’s approach of telling the reader the raw accounts of Japanese people who […]
A Case for Significance
Hello and welcome back to my blog. Today I am excited to create my first learning portfolio for our new project “The Manhattan project project”. That isn’t a typo, it’s a project about the famous Manhattan project that lead to the creation of nuclear weapons, fission and reactors. This project is a little different to […]
Think You can do Better
“How should we govern ourselves?” Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. The question posed above is the driving question for the project we as a PLP 11/12 class just finished. You the reader and I the author are going to be revisiting this driving question and the entire project built of the foundation […]
Team Alpha Vert
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today I am officially announcing the creation of the Alpha vert political party. This party is the brainchild of the combined beliefs of myself and my fellow party members, Noah, Kaden Asha, and Angelo. The Alpha Vert party of Canada is dedicated to the betterment of all […]
