The More Things Change

 Welcome back to my blog everyone! I see you’ve stumbled across another one of my Summative blog posts. I recently completed a humanities project entitled The More Things Change. In this project, we took a deeper dive into Canadian history and European exploration.  Throughout this post, I’ll be talking about the colonization of Canada, the fur trade, and more. 

 

 

 

 

 

The end goal of this project of this project was to create an infographic about exploration and colonization with a partner. This project was a bit different for me however because I was unfortunately sick for the majority of it so I had to work individually at home. I was originally supposed to be with Ava for this project but I recommend you should check out her blog! It’s really interesting and engaging to read. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was the final infographic I made. I used a Canva template to make it but I drew my own graphics and wrote all the facts myself. It was a fun challenge to draw pictures that correspond with the facts and fit the aesthetic.  

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Evidence of my learning

Deep Cove, 1920

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another part of this project was learning about continuity and change and applying it to Canadian History. Milestone 1 was all about the history of Deep Cove. To start, we got a lecture on the beginnings of Deep Cove and how it evolved into the community it is today. Using the knowledge from the lecture, we went outside and wrote about what Deep Cove was like 100 years ago and continuity and change. These were some guiding questions that we used to help write out our paragraphs:

• Who was here?

• Why were they here?

• What do you think it was like?

• What are some changes?

• What has stayed the same?

• At what rate did change occur?

• What changes do you think are positive?

• What changes do you think have been negative?

• What do you think was a significant or dramatic change / turning point in the cove?

  • How do you think these changes have impacted the way you live today? 

This was the paragraph I wrote:

 

 

 

I think this Milestone was really interesting to think about. It was strange to reflect on what was here before me and I learned a lot about the history of my home.

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Curricular competencies

Like every project we do in PLP, there were some competencies that helped us to create the final product. They were applied in every Milestone we completed. 

Identifying Continuity and Change: How are lives and conditions alike over time and how have they changed?

As I mentioned previously, we had to identify continuity and change for this project. One area that I think I did that well in was milestone 2. For milestone 2, we had to fill out a chart identifying different effects for some constants and changes in Canadian history. We had to rate how important
each event was in our opinion. Here is the chart I filled out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use Evidence from Various Sources: How do we evaluate evidence decide if is adequate to support a historical conclusion?

For this project, we had to become historians. To do this, we had to make sure all our facts were correct. To make sure all our information was sound, we had to gather information from various sources and not just one.

I used this competency in Milestone 4, which was the final infographic. I had to ensure that all my facts were correct and I gathered various sources to make sure of that.

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Answering the driving question

Every step in this project was working up to answering the driving question. For this project, our driving question was What Did European Settlement Mean For All The People Involved?

Our thesis was essentially an answer to this question.  The thesis was the statement at the top of my infographic. This was a more specific answer since I was focusing on trading and alliances in my infographic. 

 

 

 

 

European exploration to Canada meant different things for the French, the British, and the First Nations. It eventually led to the decrease of the Indigenous population due to disease. It also essentially led to me being here because of colonization. The establishment of New France led to lots of trading opportunities for both the First Nations and the Europeans.

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Conclusion

This project was one of the more difficult ones for me because I had to complete most of it at home. It involved lots of revisions and troubleshooting but I’m pretty pleased with how the infographic turned out. 

This is my last humanities blog post of the year so I hope you enjoyed reading it! The upcoming posts will be about scimatics projects so keep an eye out for those! Thanks for reading and stay snazzy 😎

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sincerely, Me

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