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📘 Midterm Presentation of Learning 2025

POL Declaration 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…

Mentor for a Day, Lessons for Life! 🦷

‘How can learning from other’s career journeys help us shape our own?’ That was the driving question for this careers project. To answer this question, we were told to pick people to shadow for a day, preferably someone who had a job that we wanted to go into. Personally, I felt that it had similar…

Swipe Right for Tragedy! 🥀

‘How do we use parody to bring the themes of Romeo & Juliet to a modern audience?’ That was the driving question for this humanities project. As you can probably guess, this project was based on Romeo & Juliet. To answer this driving question, we decided to put on our own parody play of Romeo…

Marketing Me! 💼

Do you know what you want to do when you grow up? If you are already grown up, then let me ask you; Have you always known what you wanted to do? I am currently at that point in my life where I am expected to know what career path I want to pursue after…

Save Juno Beach! 🪖

‘What role did the conflict of World War II play in shaping Canadian Identity?’ That was the driving question for this project. Last year in PLP 9 we learned about the conflicts in World War I and the role that Canada played in it. This year we moved on to the story of World War…

Atomic Habits Artifact ⚛️

“How Can Small Changes in My Habits Shape My Success This Year and Beyond?” That was our driving question for this project in Careers. This entire class, as well as the topic of this project was very new to me. Careers is a new class that was added into our grade 10 curriculum, just for…

Why Does the World Need More Canada? 🇨🇦

Long time no see everyone! This is the first blog post I have written in quite a while, and it feels Goode to be back! Over the past few weeks in grade 10 PLP, we have been focusing on answering the driving question “Why does the world need more Canada?” The end product to answer…

🗓️ Transitional Presentation of Learning 2024

Spring Exhibition 2024: WWI Con 🪖

It is finally that time of year! It’s time for Spring Exhibition 2024! The project that we presented at our spring exhibition this year was all based on World War 1. Our driving question for this project was, “How can I create a graphic novel that accurately depicts an event from WWI?” Obviously at the…

In the Name of Nationalism 🏁

Have you ever wondered how your country became the way it is today? Well I have, and in this unit I was given the opportunity to find out. As soon as spring break was over, a new unit had begun for us PLP students. This unit was all about Nationalism. You’re probably thinking ‘What the…