Driving question:

How can we, as writers, weave historical details into our creative storytelling to coney a clear and impactful message?

The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution is probably the main concept in this project. We started off the project by watching an hour long video of a guy walking around France explaining all the things of the Industrial Revolution that you’d need to know. We had to know all about it since it was apart of all our upcoming projects!

The Urbanization Game

We had 15 minutes to draw a town full of rivers, canals, houses, grave yards, factories, mines and much more. With each day, we would have to add more and more with less and less time. We were working in random groups so it definitely made the job much easier.

Hero’s Journey

I would say this one was the hardest to do and work on. It was a story of your character. The story was split up into different sections but it couldn’t be choppy.

Storyboard

After our hero’s journey, we had to do a storyboard. It was basically planning out some of our video in clip snippets. So it was just an idea of a scene we wanted to film.

Making the Frankenstuffies

So we were to bring in 2-3 stuffies that we had to rip apart and sew pieces back together to make an abstract animal. It was kinda sad taking the stuffies apart but I enjoyed sewing them back together. These stuffies were used as our main character of our story. I named my stuffie Steph.

Filming the Movie

How did we film it? Good question. We used strings and a green screen. I tied strings on Steph, and filmed clips of him moving on a green screen. We imported these videos that we took, to iMovie. From there, we would remove the green background, and replace it with an image that matches the story and ties into the Industrial Revolution. Here is my final video. Steph and I are very proud of it.

I am very proud of the final result, although it took very many steps to get to. I learned a lot about the Industrial Revolution, and more about iMovie. I also learned something about myself too: I like writing stories! Omg that was so cringe…

Anyways, thanks for making it to the end. There are more blogs to come.

It’s that time of the year again… DI

What does DI stand for? Obviously you’d know if you were in PLP, but if you aren’t, it stands for Destination Imagination.

Let me just tell you how it goes, you’d get about 3 months to create an 8 minute script with a whole bunch of props in a group. You present it in front of judges. Think of it like a game, your presentation earns you points, and you need the most points to win. You can also get more points by doing an instant challenge. Now, what is an instant challenge? Fine, I’ll tell you I guess. You and your group get pulled into a room and get assigned a challenge. But they don’t warn you about what you will be doing until the time comes. It could be improv, building a structure or something else I guess 🤷‍♀️. During the instant challenge, you get points for teamwork, collaboration and your final product or presentation. We can’t really talk about it for some reason but I will tell you some so you can get some more context. So this past DI, my group had to build a structure with limited materials that we could build it with. Don’t tell anyone I told you. And if you happen to be one of the DI judges or something, I will read you a full book of Pinkalicious🎀 if you don’t tell anyone I told you. I actually have a full collection of Pinkalicious books. But anyways, so your points get added up, and whoever wins gets a little ribbon that you will probably lose or throw out.

Group

So my group has 6 people in it. Me ofc, Ben, Elsa, Nate, Liam, and Lukas. It’s kinda weird because Elsa and I are the only ones in grade 9. So we are with 4 boys. Teenage boys to be exact 🤓☝️

We decided on the name Block Busters. Kinda based off BlockBlast! But also since for our presentation we built a tower.

Our story

So our story is kinda based of Toy Story 3. Here is our script:

Nate wasn’t able to make it to the first DI day, but he can make it to the next (there’s 2 days in total)

Overall

Hmmmm. I would say our group definitely wasn’t prepared. We kinda improvised half of our presentation. But guys, I am still very proud of us. I just wish it wasn’t sunny out that day of, because I would’ve way rathered skiing instead of stupid DI. At least it got me social. I’ve been kinda, yk, quiet, ever since I got onto the last few episodes of Gossip Girl. Im not ready to watch the last one yet because I just know there will be a lot of tears. But anyways, I had to social with people for 8 hours or something. I might’ve showed up in my pjs, bonnet and iced coffee. My mom told me that I looked homeless lmao.

Our group could use a little bit more communication at times, but thats it.

Thanks for reading this far!

Xoxo

Carmyn 💋

🦩If it’s still on your mind, its worth taking the risk🦩

Welcome to another mpol. You probably all know each other because it’s been a year and a half.

Thanks for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert of my own learning and also responsible and accountable for my learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and weaknesses. Thank you in advance for listening to my presentation.

If you were wondering what Mpol stands for, it stands for mid year presentation of learning. It’s a check in in the middle of the year.

VISION, MISSION, AND VALUES:

If we go back to October 24th, to my vision, mission and values I chose 3 I need to work on. Conduct, Ethics, and Integrity. Preparation. Engagement.

Conduct, Ethics, and Integrity.

I wrote that I have to be a leader and not a follower during group work. I also wrote that I have to be more focused at the task at hand.

I think I showed being a leader during DI. 100%. Personally, I would call myself the team captain. Even though I missed a couple classes, I was still on top of everything going on. I would tell the group when to meet, what everyone had to do and all that. I also took on the role of changing the team element last minute because whoever thought that “fishing rod” was a team element was definitely living on Mars.

I would say, I still gotta lock in during class time. Although, I have gotten better at it, compared to 2024 (it’s 2025 rn).

Preparation.

I wrote, I have to come to the morning classes at least 5 minutes early. I have to have my Apple Pencil in my bag and not on the couch at home. I need to hand on my assignments on time.

I am still struggling to come to school on time. But I would say 4/5 times a week I am on time. Sometimes even 5/5! 9/10 times I have my Apple Pencil somewhere with me so thats a ✅.

Handing in assignments on time…. My weakness….. although I’ve been getting better at it. I have to lock in and get my work done ahead of time, not the night before (it’s currently the day before this is due lol). I think I have to start using “Things” organizer app.

Engagement.

So… I wrote I have to work on actively engaging during class. And while someone else is talking i have to be listening. Another one I wrote was keeping my thoughts relevant.

I would say 9/10 times I am listening to whoever is talking. I struggle listening to INSTRUCTIONS. As for keeping my thoughts relevant, it doesn’t matter very much. If you have a question, good for you. If you don’t, it’s not the end of the world.

🥂🎉🥳CELEBRATIONS🥳🎉🥂:

I have been very happy with all my blog posts in general. I am proud of my energy infographic I made in science:

While we’re talking about infographics, I am also very proud of my French Revolution one:

This year, I am most proud of my hero’s journey. I put a lot of thought into it. It was writing a story. Personally, I think out could be published as a full on book. I handed it in a few days late, which I’m not proud of. But I am very happy that I did it to the best of my ability.

Our last project was the Frankenstuffies iMovie video. We had to make a movie using a green screen with a stuffie that we took apart and put back together. Here it is:

So far, a lot has happened this school year! And I’ve made so many memories!

thank you for your time!