“When every man is torn apart/With nightmares and with dreams/Will no one lay the laurel wreath/When silence drowns the screams”-Epitaph, King Crimson Hi everybody! In our most recent Humanities project, we made a comic book about WWI. Let me tell you about it. To begin the project, we watched documentaries and the movie 1917, which Read More…
Category: Humanities
And Who’ll Deny it’s What the Fighting’s all About
“Why, why do we suffer each race to believe That no race has been grander”- Genesis, Time Table Hello. Most recently in Humanities we learned about the cause and consequences of nationalism and how it was a contributing factor to WWI. I chose to focus on British nationalism and examine how it contributed to WWI. Read More…
Making Ungodly Mistakes and Abominations
“Well, that’s all the time we had for our movie. We hope you found it entertaining, whimsical and yet relevant, with an underlying revisionist conceit that belied the films emotional attachments to the subject matter.” “I just hoped you didn’t think it sucked.”-Wayne’s World Animal experimentation. Mutation. Mutilation. Murder. A room full of bodies hanging Read More…
Rielizing Métis Rights
Louis Riel, The Canadian Encyclopedia, by George F.G. Stanley, April 22, 2013 “Come on you target for faraway laughter/Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine”-Pink Floyd, 1975, Shine on You Crazy Diamond Hi! For our final semester 1 project in Humanities, we learned about Louis Riel. In this short 3 week project, Read More…
Brave New Worlds
“Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream/Wave upon wave of demented avengers /March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream”-Pink Floyd, 1977, Sheep Ideas are what drive human progress. But what happens when people start to question the ways of life that they have been accustomed to? This is what we Read More…
We ❤️ The King!!!
“Now my advice for those who die (taxman!)/Declare the pennies on your eyes (taxman!)/‘Cause I’m the taxman/Yeah, I’m the taxman”-The Beatles, 1966, Taxman Recently in PLP, we played a simulation called Nation X, which is based on the French/Russian Revolutions. In this game there are 4 groups: A and B (The 3rd Estate), C (The Read More…
Re-Living The Dream Again
I am climbing a mountain of brimstone. The steep hill I’m walking up seems to go on forever. But, in the distance, I can see light at the end of the tunnel: the top. I’m sure of it this time! I pick up my pace. After what seems like forever, I make it to what Read More…
I Am Not Just The Medium. I AM The Message!
“And all the people bowed and prayed/to the neon god they made/and the sign flashed out it’s warning/in the words that it was forming/ and the silence said the word of the prophets are written on the subway walls/ Teniment Halls” -The Sound of Silence Recently in Humanities, we worked on a project about advertisements Read More…
The Colonization Of The Americas
For our most recent Humanities project, we learned about colonization. For our finish line, we got to make an augmented reality video. First, let’s look at the keystones. Keystone 1: What Changed About The European Power’s Worldview? For our first keystone, we got to make an Art Chart. We got to pick a piece of Read More…
My Exposition on The Exploration Explosion (Exposed!)
God dag og velkommen! Let’s talk about my most recent Humanities project, Blue Eyed Brutes In Horned Helmets. That’s right, we learned about Vikings (for the first keystone, anyway)! For the first keystone, we had to make a Viking character card. That was pretty fun and interesting. Here’s mine. For our second keystone, we looked Read More…