on The end of an era: I’ve graduated now, and my time with PLP has come to a close. This final blog post will be a short summary of the final exhibition and my time in PLP (and yeah I’m a little crazy, no one told me to write this I’m just doing it because I… Continue Reading 🎓 So long, Seycove
on As you can guess from that quote, we just finished a project about terrorism. As you can also guess from the quote, this project was incredibly eye-opening. This project was an “idea sprint” lasting just a few weeks and rapidly covering four sectors of terrorism: liberation, revolution, God, and State. Our essential question for… Continue Reading 🏙️ Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
on “Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” – John Lewis, Civil… Continue Reading 🏃🏿 The Sprint to Civil Rights
on Welcome! It’s mPOL time of year again — and this time is for the last time: my last mPOL before I graduate. In this post I will be writing about my growth as a learner so far this year. I will then be presenting this post to my parents and a teacher in what we… Continue Reading 🗣️ mPOL 2025
on Feminism is “a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians” (qtd. in Wade; Mikkelson). At least that’s how it was described by television evangelist Pat Robertson in 1992. Pat Robertson is entirely wrong, that’s not the intent of feminism at all.… Continue Reading 👸 Should Men Care About Feminism?
on “While not giving a f*ck may seem simple on the surface, it’s a whole new bag of burritos under the hood.” – Mark Manson Shocking title huh? I assure you it’s entirely on theme. We just finished a project in which we read and analyzed a self-help book of choice. I chose to read Mark… Continue Reading 🌯 A Book Involving Burritos, Disappointment Panda, Drunken Poets and LSD | A Self-Help Book Project
on “According to the Toronto police, hate crimes are up 93% in the city over the last year. 53% of those crimes are antisemitic. According to Reuters, antisemitism incidents worldwide are up 400% in the last year. According to Statistics Canada, Jews are the religious group most likely to be targeted for hate crimes. They make… Continue Reading ✡️ Horror of History, Faces of Future | The Holocaust
on “Education got us into this mess, and education will get us out of it.” – Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair This year we were required to take a newly added course: B.C. First Peoples 12. This course was dedicated to learning about the horrific treatment of Indigenous people in Canada. One of the first assignments we… Continue Reading 🪶 B.C. First Peoples
on Welcome! It’s tPOL time of year already! In this post I will be writing about my growth as a learner so far this year. I will then be presenting this post to my parents and a teacher in what we in PLP call a tPOL – Transitional Presentation of Learning – while I talk about… Continue Reading 🗣️ tPOL 2024
on This project was a bit different than most because we got to create our own personal inquiry question that connected back to the concept of how fear influences the world. I created a Smart Brevity website about the history, present and future of Canadian Arctic defence plans. Click the card below to see my final… Continue Reading 😱 Canada’s Evolving Arctic Defence Plans | Fear Factor