Long shoe

Hello! Welcome back to my blog, and if you’ve never been here before, hello! I am Hazel, and this is my blog.

The beginning of this year was tough. The toughest part was definitely travelling to Alberta. I was scared of leaving my family for such a long time, even though it was only for a week. But, i am typing this now, so I’m obviously alive and well. Enough rambling, lets get on with the trip, shall we?

As soon as we made it to our first stop, we got to work. Our first stop was.. Two valley gap. The ghost town! Definitely one of my favourite stops out of the many. The first thing we were required to do was look around the town. Get our bearing before we had to do our first video; our silent video! Our silent video was probably the second most fun for me (and my group, since this was a group video). Our silent video was about a murder in a bank, and its a comedy! I will share it soon…

The silent video took about an hour or so the finish filming, and after that, we went inside of our hotel… it was a spooky hotel, thats fro sure. We had nachos and salsa, and i went to bed happy…

The second video we worked on was our investigative video. You’re probably thinking, “wait… what is that?” Well, im going to tell you!

While we were at Alberta, we were supposed to take interviews. We were supposed to interview people, basically on why they came to Alberta! I am not the best at interviewing people, so I got some help… but I did end up doing both my interviews.

One of my interviews was done in the Columbia ice fields, and the second was done in the Revelstoke Railway Museum. I was supposed to do an interview at the golden skybridge, but plans were altered.

And, of course, my final video… my favourite video! My fun tiktok video! My TikTok video definitely took the most drawing effort, but I’m really happy with how it turned out. While people were filing themselves doing dances, I just… took selfies of myself! I didn’t work on my TikTok video for the entire time, aside from taking photos. And when I got home, I began to draw! That’s right! One of my videos includes DRAWING!!! Because I DRAW and I AM AN ARTIST!!! How cool is that??
Anyway. My TikTok video was definitely the most loved by my teachers, I even got an exceeding grade… check it out!

And there we have it. My videos… all very cool, and very creative videos… I have one question for you now! Which one was your favourite?

Keep an eye out for my second blog post about Alberta! It should be coming out by Tuesday next week…

As the school year comes to an end, I have a lot to reflect on. This was my first year of high school, the only year in which I did not know what to expect. During the year, I learned more and more as time went on and expectations changed.

What are you most proud of and why?

While writing online for a lot of other projects and work, i developed my own hobby for writing my own stories. I was also very proud of my Middle Ages project, that was actually my favourite project from last year. 

Where did you see the most growth?

I got more comfortable and learned a bunch of new apps i hadn’t even heard of before. It’s allowed me to broaden my horizons and lets me present my work better. It also allows me to get more creative. I am also a way more comfortable sharing my work with adults, though still not so much with my peers. 

What skills would you like to work on next year?

I would like to get better at summarizing all my notes. I do well at note taking, but they are always long and dont usually get to the point quick enough. I would also love to be able to talk to my peers better.

The work that didn’t go well for you, what can you learn from that?

Even though i got the best grade on it, i did not like my imme system characters drawings and writing. I got a rainbow on it but i do not think i deserved that, because it was sketchy and I didn’t even try that hard on the writing. 

What frustrates you most in school?

Not being able to understand work even after its been explained to me time and time again. I also get annoyed by not understanding something everyone else seems to understand. I also get annoyed by not knowing what to write when I’m typing out a blog post.

I know that I have a good work ethic because I care about the quality of my work so much that it stresses me out. I also believe that I have good work habits because I start my work as soon as I receive it. I complete my work on time and take the time to do revisions as well before I submit it. The way I allocate time during my projects allows me to revise, take suggestions and finish on time. 

During the spring exhibition, we were told to answer one question.

“How does advertising persuade, sell, and influence society?”

Hello! And welcome back to my blog! Today, I’ll be telling you all about what I did, and what happened during the spring exhibition! It’ll be fun

So, you might’ve read what was at the top of the page. It’s true, that was the question we were trying to answer throughout the entire exhibition. Now, why were we trying to answer that question? Because it was the baseline of our entire project, of course!

You see, everyone in plp 8 was intended to go to Oregon so they could interview a company and create an ad based off their work. The company specified what they’d want in the ad, such as font, colour, and visuals. So that you, the student/interviewer could get everything spot on in the advertisement. Buuut, for me, it wasn’t the same.

I actually didn’t go to Oregon. It was just bad timing- it was my birthday on one of the weeks and a few other things were actually happening at the time. So, I didn’t interview a company with a group. I did it by myself.

I did a company here in Vancouver. And I, Hazel, do not know anyone personally who owns a business. Well, aside from my dad. So I ended up doing his engineering company! He’s owned it since like 2015, so he’s likely the first person I should be asking.

After interviewing my dad, I started working on his advertisement. This is how it started out:

It’s not amazing, right? I took this off Google maps on a seemingly rainy day so it doesn’t look like a very friendly place, it looks pretty serious. (Which it is but it also isn’t at times)

Now, my lovely lovely teacher gave me some pointers. And after that I decided to just do it over again because honestly this image is atrocious to look at. Here’s my first final:

Pretty nice, right? I kept the image and the general idea but I still had ways to go from here. I had to add shadows, a phone number, an address and even a little gradient behind them so we could see better! And so I did

There were two other revisions between these, but they’re all pretty much the same and uploading takes a little so.. no point. But still, this is 100x better than what I started off with. It was grey and sad and the text was also sad, and now it’s bright and happy and the text is less eye burning to look at! Amazing improvements.

After I finished my ad, it was time for exhibition. I was alone in a group, since I was actually the only person who didn’t go to Oregon. I had to prepare by myself, with a bit of help from another staff member. I had to get food, decorations, advertising things! And so I did, and it looked pretty awesome.

I mean come on, for one person setting everything up this is top tier! I actually put out some Lindor and doughnuts later but that isn’t in the photo since a bunch of kids kept taking them before the exhibition even started. 10 minutes before starting, I threw out a kids lollipop he stuck onto my canvas holder ( I know exactly who it was, by the way. I’m not saying names though ) and met my parents! They were the first people there, they’d actually came early. I was absolutely touched!

Anywho, I went back to my table and stood. Stood for 5 hours. It was great, I met a bunch of amazing people and drank some amazing drinks, but I’ll tell you; my back and calves were broken by the three hour mark. I couldn’t walk around, I couldn’t even sit. I was in a group alone and I was in total agony for half of the exhibition. But I had to pursue. If I didn’t, I’d probably fall on the floor and never get up again. I’d also get a bad grade!

At the very end of the exhibition, I packed a little early and zoomed out the door. I was not sticking around to help everyone else clean up their messes, I was in a group alone, you can clean with 3 other people. I got permission to leave, by the way. I ran in the car and me and my parents rushed out of the parking lot, never to be seen again.

I’m kidding, by the way, I am sitting in class writing this now. Not for long…. Mwehehehhehehe

NOW, to answer the driving question.
How does advertising persuade, sell, and influence society?

It all takes… technique. And knowing who you’re selling to.
Knowing how to create a persuasive ad is important, but what’s even more important is knowing who you’re selling to. Then, you can really get your ad right on the point!
Now, do I know how to create an advertisement? Absolutely not, at least not a moving one. But did I learn a lot about advertising and how media influences people to buy things today? Yes. I did.

“AAAAAHHHH!”

Oh no! Atom is flying through the air! I hope he lands safely…

Atom fell on his face. He was in the middle of nowhere, away from all his neutron friends!! He was so spooked that he didn’t know what to do!

”My friends! They must be missing me…”

So, without a second thought, Atom went on his way to find his friends. I hope he can get to them safely!

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This post is going to be a little different, since it is about coding (kind of)!

For the last few weeks of school, we’ve been learning a lot about science. So, my teacher put my entire class to the test and made us make a game. Based around SCIENCE! (Mainly solids and liquids n that sort of stuff)

Now, for this game, we were primarily using scratch to code. And as a lot of you may know, scratch is kind of a pain in the arse. Coding wise and.. saving wise. And after a lot of hard work and dedication to my game, my page reloaded and i lost all my progress. and the worst part was that this was at the VERY end of the project. I was crushed, so sad that I couldn’t even do anything for the rest of the day. So, out of pity, my science teacher told me i could just make a poster because she’d already seen my game and knew how hard i worked on it. So, i accepted and made a poster.

Pretty nice, right? I think so too.

Now, while I was (and still am) sad about losing my progress on over a week of work, I’m pretty proud of the work i did. Even though all proof of my work has been burned to ashes i know that my teacher and a few other people saw, and were really impressed. And to those people who were excited to see the finished product, i am sorry. Because i do not have it.

Hello! Welcome to my blog! Today i will be chatting about my Colonization project, a project which includes a video, some information and a few other interesting things i can’t think of off the top of my head! Let’s goooo

Now, the first thing we did for this project was choose our people to focus on. The indigenous people, the poor French men, the rich French men, the fil du roix, and the missionaries. I was chosen to do the Poor men. Wasn’t my first choice, i wanted to be rich men but its pretty close so it doesn’t really matter.

Now, i did a lot of research on the French men of New France! But this included doing research on some other parties, mainly the rich French men (since they had the closest ties to the French poor men). I mainly did research on who was involved, what was basically what happened, and their viewpoint after a few years of new Frances existence.

Next, we talked about the consequences of colonization. You may already know this already, but there were a lot of consequences to colonization. It was especially bad for the indigenous peoples. They were effected greatly from the French men coming to New France, in good and bad ways (but mainly bad).

here are a few more examples of what I’ve been doing for the past few weeks.

Due to the colonization of Canada, there are a lot less indeginous people than there would be had it never been colonized. All of Canada would likely be indeginous people, but due to the fact most of the earlier generation indigenous people had… died, they are lesser seen then they ordinarily would be ( had their land not been blatantly taken ). It was a good thing for many of the Europeans, due to the fact they were getting new opportunities for work, but it was kind of bad for the rich men of France, due to the fact that the poor men wer asking so much to work ( but the rich men were also kind of making more, so it’s a good and bad kind of thing ).

The poor Europeans of France had a tough time living in New France at first, but after a while of trading and “befriending” the indigenous peoples, they got the hang of it. The main problem that the poor French men had, though, was the problem of how cold it was in New France. It was cold, and they hadn’t assumed the climate was any different. This is what caused many of the poor men’s deaths in New France.

 Not all was bad for the rich French men, though. They didn’t have to do any labor, and all they had to do was pay their workers. The missionaries were having a field day in New France, due to how many non-Christians there were. Once more schools were built in New France ( a way in a future ) they were pretty much everywhere. You couldn’t take a walk in the park without seeing at least 2 missionaries. But, though this was very good for the Europeans, it wasn’t so great to their indeginous neighbours. When the fille du roi came to New France, their life was hard. They weren’t sure who or where they were going to be stuck with. In t`he long run, they did do their jobs successfully, starting families and living. In fact, some fille du roi families are still alive today in Canada! So the fille du roi did their jobs pretty well.

Hello again! I’m Hazel, and welcome to my blog post. Today I’ll be talking about what I did in science class. You may be asking, what did you do? Well I’m telling you now so hold your horses!

We did lots so far in science, but the most best and memorable part for me was my Poster. These posters were made to educate younger kids about germs, and the importance of washing their hands, vaccinating, and not being gross in general. Now, a lot of people’s posters had lighter colours, and a more friendly tone. Well, my poster is different. I went for a scare tactic instead, using darker colours and a less friendly tone. This wasn’t intended to really “scare” kids, it was to convince them to wash their hands and cover their mouth. I feel like I did it really well, too.

My favourite thing about my poster is how much detail I put into it. I don’t usually try 100% on my drawing projects for school, but I did this time. I wanted it to look better than everyone else’s so that it could really stand out. Though, one thing I would change is the slogan on the poster. I don’t know if you’d really call it a slogan, it’s just the text on the poster. Anyway, I feel like it doesn’t fit the poster that well. But, I didn’t have time to think about the text on the poster because we were already running out of time. But, that’s my only problem with the poster. Other than that, I love it.

Well, that’s it! Thank you for reading my blog post and I’ll be back in 2 weeks.

Hello and welcome back to my blog! Today I’ll be talking about my travelogue, a new assignment be been working on for a while now. Let’s start!
First thing we did in class was learn about the Vikings, natural explorers and raiders. This was to prepare for our final product of writing a historically accurate story by doing research.

The travelogue is a little book that consists of 5 or more images, with a story with less than 300 words. I did it on Christopher Columbus, but the person writing the book was just a crew member on one of the 3 ships he directed.
I really enjoyed the drawing and writing parts of this assignment. I like creative assignments so this was perfect for me. I wasn’t really a fan of the group work in this assignment, though. I prefer to work alone instead of with others.

Hello, I’m Hazel! Welcome back to my blog.

Today, we’re gonna be talking about my first ever Mpol for PLP. Just in case you aren’t sure what an Mpol is, I’ll tell you.

An Mpol is a thing that you do in PLP to finish off the semester. You talk about some of the projects you did, and what you liked about the project and aspects in the project that you would change. You usually present this to a teacher you know and your parents.

Now that you know what an Mpol is, I can talk about my first Mpol!

The first project I’m going to talk about is my crusades presentations! They’re probably my favourite thing that I’ve done this semester.    

I think that almost everything about these presentations were great! I loved how much detail is put into the drawings and the information ( I think ) is greatly worded.

Though, I would change the length of some of the paragraphs in the presentation. I would have also changed the torture slide, because I didn’t put any effort in and honestly, I would have hand drawn it if I had another day to work on it.

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Next, I’m going to talk about my “Becoming PLP learner” project.

The things I liked about this project was all the questions in it, and how I answered them. I thing that my illustrations are also amazing. But I would change the lack of colour in this project because it looks bland. But another thing that I really liked about what I did are the three main points, my Dreamboard, my YouTube channel and my user manual. I think that it gives the reader a lot to learn and read about.

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• winter exhibition (setting up for the exhibition, working on your box

And now I’m going to talk about my winter exhibition reflection. I really liked a how I worded everything and formatted everything to looks nice and spaced out,  but I would’ve checked over the grammar and get more input on it before I handed it in. I also like how I added in the images of my box at different angles.

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Interesting images- used markup,lighting,brightness, angles. Created inanimate objects

Now, I’ll be talking about my interesting images assignment. I loved a lot about this project, mainly because it required so much creativity in the pictures. Most of what we did was taking pictures and editing them with markup. I really liked the pictures i made, and the editing i did was, I’d say, very creative. I took a picture of a sewer vent and an electrical box, examples of them are below.

I also love how i did my name. The smiley face is a touch that i like a lot! Another thing about the real life mixed with cartoon drawings is how i mixed the monochrome of the drawings with the colour of real life. I love that kind of stuff. Though i love the drawings, i think i could have put in a little more effort.

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Now, does this comply with my learning plan?

I’d say that I’m very close! It says that I will eat a healthy breakfast everyday on the learning plan intent, though I actually don’t eat breakfast a lot during the mornings. I am trying to change that! I do think that I am doing a lot of the things that are on the learning plan, so I’d say my work is accomplished! I am not trying to reach for extending, but if I did get an extending grade it would be nice.

What am I proud of, out of all this work?

Out of it all, i think I’m most proud of my writing work. After all, i did a lot of it. I think my writing capabilities have grown drastically over the year so far, and if i had to choose between last years writing and this years, I’d definitely choose this years writing. I just think it’s more creative, and overall the spelling, typing and punctuation are just a thousand times better.

What have you gotten better at over these few months?

I’d say writing again but I’d hate to repeat myself. I think my art advanced during the year, since I’ve had more time to draw inside school. I’ve been able to draw more overall, since a lot of the work in school as actually required art in the assignments. I also have to draw a lot to keep me from dying of boredom, and because my brain might explode if i don’t get my ideas out on paper.

What would you work on in the future?

Now, I think that I have improved a lot on learning about new apps, but there is a lot of room for improvement. I don’t know how to use the calendars app, and it’s one of the first apps on the iPad that you get. I am really bad at using things, and we’ve been using it for like, a month now. What I’m trying to say is, I should practice at using apps that I haven’t used before so i can be prepared when we do actually use them.

I love what I did with the “ editing my face onto random people “ thing. It saved me a lot of time and effort and I honestly love how it turned out. I also love how I pulled random recent, or old inventions from the internet and just put them into the images. It represents my learning well and it’s also kinda funny at times.
I think that I could improve on where some of the objects are placed, though. Sometimes it looks kind of awkward and weird. I also think I could have spent more time on the background of the triptych, because the colours are kind of ugly.