Reconciliaction. The finale of B.C. First peoples with PLP.

This project was about the journey of the Haida People in Reclaiming their land and ownership of their waters. We did a lot of reading for this project. Some of the reading included: The Golden spruce, Klee Wyck and Athlii Gwaii.

We also went to Haida Gwaii as a field study, but I chose not to go to that field study. You should go and check out one of my classmates blog’s as I’m sure they have some pretty pictures.

The at home learners (that includes me) read the book Klee Wyck by Emily Carr and made a “scrapbook” (essentially a prettier version of a book report). I have attached mine to this blog post. A quick summary of the topic of the book is, Emily Carr, a white “settler woman” goes around British Columbia and goes to indigenous communities and tries to be as unobtrusive as possible and observes the people. She makes notes about the culture and practices.

Here is a link to the scrapbook. Scrapbook

The final part of this project was the exhibition. I attached some photos to the bottom of the blog, but a summery of what I did was I make a connections game like the one on the New York Time about different laws that effected Indigenous peoples and the ways they could live their lives. The goal of my activity was to show how laws put in place by the Canadian government dehumanized them. I tried to decided i wanted to make mine a game because I was thinking about previous PLP exhibitions, the parts with food and games usually to the best and I didn’t feel like buying food for a bunch of strangers.

Thanks for reading my blog.

So Hi all, this is my last tpol, and the last blog of the school year (though some other blogs that are late will be coming out after this one). This blog is about how i think that i am ready to advance to the next year in school. Now normally in these we would talk about how we are ready to advance to the next year of plp, but i have opted not to continue in the program. There are a variety of reasons for this which i will delve into.

So the things that i think i have done well this year. For the first part of the year with mister Gibson, i think i did quite well. I really enjoyed his teaching and in his projects i think I succeeded.

After he left there was one project that I had that i think that I didn’t do well, and that is the big bother project/ or the Macbeth project. This project didn’t go well for a couple of reasons. The start of the project was reading the play Macbeth and watching a movie of the play. We then made a knowledge network on the play. After this we had to record 4 video confessionals about the play. This is where I failed. I couldn’t find a costume for the play and I couldn’t get enough people to play the 7 other characters in the scenes, in addition to the fact that my character, kind Duncan only has 2.5 scenes.

My take away form this project is the same as it is for all of the projects that I don’t do well in. I need to ask for help when I need it, or when I am falling behind. Usually this would be where I say that I am going to change and do better, I don’t think I will change as I have been like this the entire time I have been in school.

Something else I want to talk about is something that I think that I did a good job in and this was the most recent PLP project, reconcilication. I that i did a good job in this project because I think this is the best I have met the criteria to a project in a while and succeeded. For example the scrap-book, I think I answered every question that I was supposed to answer, and I made it look nice visually which is usually a challenge for me. 

Also for the exhibition I think this is the best PLP exhibition I have done so far. I got by far the most audience engagement in this exhibition, and I think that my idea to make it heavily reliant on being a game was what did it. Usually when I walk around the PLP exhibitions, the things that grab my eyes the most are food and games, and I think this applies to everyone. The takeaways from this that I want to put into my learning in the future are: try to think differently that I usually do to meet the criteria and to think outside the box when researching.

What I will attempt to integrate into my learning habits next year are: try and be more creative visually and with ideas with how I do things, try just a little bit to be more open minded, ask for help or figure out some way of making myself accountable in asking for help, and to do better when it comes to capitalizing my letter i.

Scrapbook

So this is the latest project that we completed in B.C. First peoples and it was a interesting one. This project was about reconciliation, and the different roles that museum and the different forms of government play in reconciliation.

The core idea of this project is partially in the title, how do museums and government drive forward reconciliation and how can they do better. To start of this project there was a little bit of learning, and then there was a field study in the province’s capital, Victoria. I elected not to go on this field study. I am going to attempt to summarize the field study, but for a more accurate description read the blog of my classmate. The members of the class who went on the field study, when to the Royal B.C. Museum and the B.C. Legislature. They spoke to our MLA and different ministers at that Government building.

Once we came back we had to start working on our final project. Before the field study we were given the choice for our final project, the options being: writing a letter to someone in government with power, making a small audio production including an interview or a small video. Those who didn’t go on the field study, including myself were where given the only option of writing a letter because we wouldn’t be able to get any media.

I wrote two letters for my final project, one addressed to my school principal and one to the minister of education for the province. The topic of my two letters was the same, the recognition of Indigenous Veterans and how schools can do better recognizing them. If you want to read them, they are below. Thank you for reading my blog.  Letter. Letter to Government.

Welcome back to my blog. For this blog post I’m going to try something new and keep it snappy. This project was called the write stuff and what this project was about is in the name. The final project for this project was to write a piece about something. It could be anything, i chose why metal is the best music genre. Because it is. Fight me. (The essay is at the bottom of this blog post).

Some of the activities we did in this project were: making a song about whales, read some text pieces and write stuff on them and read the tableau Asie piece and answer some quiz questions about it. Once we had done all of this we then had to create a short couple sentences pitch about what kind of writing piece we would do and what it would be about. We then made our essays.

I chose to make mine about why metal is the best music genre and because i listen to music all of the time. I talk about this in the essay. But the thing i want to hammer home is metal is not fake and corporatized like most music genres and is far more creative. Have a nice day. (Unless Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter is your favourite artist).

Métal essay pdf

Callum’s Midyear presentation of learning. As a blog. 🙁

So.

This year we were given an individual driving question by our Mpol teacher. And mine is: 

**How might my engagement and enthusiasm in class be impacting my learning and relationships in the room? How might I apply my strengths and passions to my work?**

So. I think we know why this is my driving question. When i am not interested in a class i don’t put in sufficient effort. Especially when i don’t think the class bring me any value. In this case i view BCFP as both so as a result my effort is not there.

This class also doesn’t provide to room for me to learn about my interests when it comes to indigenous peoples, we do learning about topics that don’t really matter that much like the stuff on Buffy sainte-marie, and we don’t highlight important indigenous figures, or at least we haven’t gotten to that point yet. I would love to do a project about indigenous veterans like: Francis Peghamegabow or Tommy Trince.

So i can say what i am going to change and how i am going to be better but i see no point to doing that. I know that i won’t change and i know my opinion of this corse won’t change.

I would on the other hand like to talk about how i am doing in humanities as i think that i am doing quite well in humanities. Not so since Mr. Gibson left but i have been engaged in class and enjoying the course material. I think that i have been engaging in class and putting in my best effort. Something i am having difficulty with is this current writing project because i think that the way in which we are practicing writing is stupid and not useful. I am also struggling because i am objectively not creative, and so when it comes to writing stuff like a song about whales. So i guess what i can “improve apon is asking for help. This is the English half of humanities i think i am doing fine, although i would like to get to a 100%

 For example looking at poems. Poems are objectively stupid, other than haikus, in general there are no rules or frame works for a poem to fall into, and there are subject and thus they are stupid and a waste of everyone’s time. 

“Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.”

Welcome to my third Tpol. A tpol is about the transition between grades and proving to your parents and teacher that you are ready to move up a grade level. For this tpol we were supposed to fill a sheet honestly where we looked back on the year and thought about whether we had shown the learning of someone extending, accomplished or approaching expectations.

Here is the sheet. In it we had different category’s to look through. The part of the of the document that i think that i did the best at.

Success Behaviours Self-Assessment

Where communication and the part that i think that needs the most work is being on time with my things

In the document we where to pick one category in agency that we need to work on for next year and for me that is far and away asking for help. It is one of the things that i hate doing the most because of my stubborn pick yourself up by the bootstraps mentality and my blatant stubbornness that surrounds my personality. The part of asking for help that i need to do the most is asking my parents for help. For the last project that i did in plp the i asked for help from my mom running over things and spell checking things because when i spell check things my self it doesn’t go well.

The next thing that will highlight is under engagement and that is enthusiasm. I will cut to the chase here because this has been present in me and my learning since i was in elementary school. If i don’t like a project or an activity/assignment i don’t really do well and i tend to phone this in. Next year this is something that i need to do better in and i have some ideas as to how i can do better at this but i would love some feedback from my teachers and parents.

For the third category i would like to highlight something positive that i think i did well in this year. This is the integrity and and conduct section. This section is not using things like ChatGPT for evil as the PLP teachers would say. Using technology for good.

This is something that i have not had a problem with and i can honestly say i haven’t used ChatGPT to do my work for me. I have used it for good as my PLP teacher would say. This includes using AI for ideas but adapting them and making them your own.

A project that i think is an opportunity for growth looking back is the racism project that we did. In this project we had to make an exhibit about one of three groups that had a notable and severe discrimination event. My group did the Japanese discrimination during world war 2 when they were interned, had their rights taken away, had all of their assets seized and were never given back and had their property and business’s sold to cover the cost of their interments.

In this project i would say that i didn’t have the strongest group to put it nicely my group wasn’t the most focused and they were responsible for the boat and the boat showed the amount of effort that had gone into it. I personally think that i did my fair share making the posters for the project finding images and helping make the boat that we did for out exhibit when i had completed my tasks. This was a great learning experience for me that you can always do more and encourage other s to make sure that everyone succeeds in a project.

The final project that i would like to draw upon as a learning experience is the first project that we did in Maker/Pgp this year. This project was about self improvement and meditation. Things that i was not interested in in the way that it was being taught. I am not a opposed to self improvement but the way that we where doing it in class was very irritating for me and as a result of this i phoned it in the entire time and as a result of this my grade showed this. This is a good learning experience for me because it shows what happen when i don’t self advocate it’s revealing that i really need to self advocate.

This blog is about the story of my favourite plp project this year. 

Craziness is something that is not something that is commonly kindly looked upon when people think of crazy most of the time they think about people who are deficient, for example schizophrenics but crazy is good if your definition of crazy shifts a little bit. This project is about the crazy ones, but the good crazy people like bill gates, Jeff Bezos and Dave Chihuly people who are renowned for being crazy in a good way.

This project started by chance, with the spin of a wheel. We were to pick a person out of apples’s 1997 crazy ones advertising campaign centered around the people who have changed the world. People like Richard Branson, Ghandi or Muhammad Ali. People who have had un undeniable impact on the world in the own unlike way. The purpose of this was to give us an idea of what a Pecha Kucha is with out giving us enough time to perfect it. A Pecha Kucha is a slide show presentation where each slide has around one image on it and the slides automatically change after twenty seconds so that it forces you to spend a certain amount of time time on each one or look bad.

We had to research the person for the person for the Pecha Kucha. My person was Richard Branson described as a: British Businessman by Wikipedia he is known for starting the virgin name conglomerate. So we researched the person and crafted our Pecha Kucha. I had a hard time with mine and would say that i didn’t do well because i don’t think that Richard Branson changed the world like a lot of the other people that were available to choose from. The point of this exercise though was to learn about what it was like to make a Pecha Kucha, what worked well and what we would need to do for the next one. 

The next step for this project was to go to Seattle and learn about oddballs that have had an impact around the world on a variety of different things. Some of the highlights from the trip were the space needle, the MoPoP, the tour that we did of the Boeing factory, the Bucca di Beppo restaurant. If you want to read more about the trip you can read my blog post about it or read one of my classmate’s blog about the trip. While we were on the trip we went to different locations some of them on guided tours some of them self guided and learn about the different people. We took notes and media about the different sites that we went to so that we could formulate and argument as to why the different people changed the world and why they were/should be considered crazy.

When we got back from the trip there were a variety of things to do, the first of which being get a good sleep over the weekend. Then we started making a storyspine or storyboard what these are are structures for a story of presentation to improve it and not have look like a rambling run on sentence. We also had to make the slideshow and find pictures for it. The final step was to fine tune. And make it look all slick for the presentation night.

Finaly we presented on the night and watched the other group present and enjoyed the hard work of the class.  

Thank you for reading.

“Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.”

So after that declaration i would like to initiate my transitional presentation of learning. So i am going to introduce the story of my learning in the second semester of school. So in the second semester i had only one plp class and that was humanities. I am going to reflect on the things that i think that i did well this semester and things that i think that i did sub optimaly.

The first thing i would like to talk about is: motivation. I think my performance in my plp classes is overly based on how motivated i am. So if i am liking a project i do very well and am often happy with how it turns out. So i think that i need to be better about this next year. I need to find ways of being more happy when i am doing a project that i donn’t like or we are learning about a subject that i do not like. So i need to find some ways of improving this. Ways that i could possibly fix these are having an open mind set breaking up work with stuff that i find interesting. I could also find ways of adapting projects so that i find them more interesting. Out of these options i think that adapting the projects a little bit is the one that i think will be the most relevant. The reason that i say this is because: i think that this can be done and it would have a good effect.

The second thing that i would like to talk are goals that i set and which ones that i think that i achieved and the goals that i think i need to continue striving to achieve/. The first goal that i set this year was: keeping a more open mindset about the different projects that i am going to have to do in my different classes. I think that i have done a good job of keeping an open mind. What i think that i need to do better after learning from reflection are: putting more effort into projects that i do not like. The second goal that i set was: do better in scimatics. I know that math and science were separated this semester but the goal still applied to the science part of it. I think that i achieved this goal because i really enjoyed this class. I did well and i think that my grades reflected that. The final goal that i set was to do better in my maker class and i think that i achieved that. A thing that i would like to add is even though i make this seem all negative I still thing that i did a really good job and did better this year then i did last year

The final thing that i would like to talk about is: my favourite project that i did this year and why i loved it. So there were two contenders for this but i chose the second one because it was the one that i did this semester so it is the one that i though was the most relevant. So the first project that i thought about was exiting electricity in the first semester in science class and the second project that i thought about was dulce et decorum est in humanities. The reason i chose the second project is because it is the one of the two that i did in this semester. So this was the project that i just showcased in the spring exhibition. My teacher for this project was Erin Madsen. What we did in this project was: learn about World War One and showcased it in a project at the exhibition. The reason that i loved this project was because i got to learn about a subject that i am really interested in and because i got to showcase my work in a way that i found really fun.

Thank you for coming to my T-pol. I think that this has been a really good period of learning reflection for me, and i appreciate you comments and criticisms.

So this is the second spring exhibition that i have d with plp and i would say that it was my favourite and also the one that went the best. The reason that i think that this went well is because i really enjoyed this project and put my 100% into it and as a result i fell i was able to showcase my work very well.

So this blog post is about the exhibition and the project that the exhibition was on. For the first part of this blog post i want to talk about the project. So this project was called dulce et decorum est. So this project was on World War One. The first part of this project was focused on learning about World War One. We learn about the cause and consequence of the war, why the war was started. If you want to know why the war started encyclopedia britanica is a good source to learn about it. Once we knew why the war started we learned about what happened in Canada during the war. We learned about the social and political changes that happened during Canada during the war like women getting the right to vote, draft exemptions for status Indians(first peoples). Next we learned about the war effort so how many men went to fight in Europe (too many) the production on the home front.

We then had to choose what we are going to do for out projects. We brainstormed and picked our topic. My topic was discrimination in the military. For my project I focuses on bringing to light the service of black and indigenous peoples during the First World War. For my projects i made a keynote with b-role to, a paragraph for peoples to read and a model to kinda show how peoples would have been treated.

For the exhibition we decorated our room based on the theme of our projects (so World War One) we then presented them to the guest explaining why we made our exhibits. Each person made a presentation on a different part of the war. 

Thank you for reading.

So this is the second spring exhibition that i have d with plp and i would say that it was my favourite and also the one that went the best. The reason that i think that this went well is because i really enjoyed this project and put my 100% into it and as a result i felt i was able to showcase my work very well.

So this blog post is about the exhibition and the project that the exhibition was on. For the first part of this blog post i want to talk about the project. So this project was called dulce et decorum est. So this project was on World War One. The first part of this project was focused on learning about World War One. We learn about the cause and consequence of the war, why the war was started. If you want to know why the war started encyclopedia britanica is a good source to learn about it. Once we knew why the war started we learned about what happened in Canada during the war. We learned about the social and political changes that happened during Canada during the war like women getting the right to vote, draft exemptions for status Indians(first peoples). Next we learned about the war effort so how many men went to fight in Europe (too many) the production on the home front.

We then had to choose what we are going to do for out projects. We brainstormed and picked our topic. My topic was discrimination in the military. For my project I focuses on bringing to light the service of black and indigenous peoples during the First World War. For my projects i made a keynote with b-role to, a paragraph for peoples to read and a model to kinda show how peoples would have been treated.

For the exhibition we decorated our room based on the theme of our projects (so World War One) we then presented them to the guest explaining why we made our exhibits. Each person made a presentation on a different part of the war. 

Thank you for reading.

As shown by the photo above we all did our projects standing sideways on a wall.