This is the question I will be answering for this post throughout a collection of questions, and artifacts of my learning. There’s no place for people in the future who aren’t willing to continually learn and grow. Not only have I learnt this within the curriculum we’ve covered this year, but the way in which that curriculum has made me look at history, and … Continue reading TPOL 2020
The title of this post is from author, and entrepreneur: James Clear. In PGP (personal growth plan, for anyone reading this that aren’t my teachers) we’ve spent the majority of the year studying Clear’s values, and discoveries. A couple days ago I came upon an article on his website with the title: “5 Common Mental Errors That Sway You From Making Good Decisions”. This title … Continue reading “We Are All Irrational”
I remember as a kid, going to the grocery store with my parents. We’d enter the doors, grab a cart, and make our way through the walls of food. I remember thinking of it as such an exciting place, all these colourful objects, with different names, from different places. At the end of our shopping trip, we’d begin to load our groceries onto the conveyer … Continue reading “White Gold”: The Slave Trade’s Role in America’s Sugar Industry
Better Dead Than Red and the Royal Fleeing This is the second out of three of my TWIL (this week I learned) posts. Once again I will be covering two topics, and making a connection between them. In class, as we make our way through Macbeth, and American history of the 1950’s, I’ve made yet more connections to Shakespeare’s world, and ours. Homophobia in the … Continue reading TWIL: Week Two
Something I’ve struggled with ever since I’ve joined PLP is drawing the line, when my work is finished. Even though I’m extremely thankful for the opportunity to revise work in PLP, unlike other classes in school, I can have some trouble figuring out if writing another paragraph, or doing another diagram is really worth it, and hopefully by the end of grade 11 I’ll have … Continue reading MPOL 2020
President Truman and Lord Macbeth This post will be the first of many in a series called: “This Week I Learned” (TWIL). As our class studies two different (or maybe not so different) subjects, I will be reporting here on my blog each week to write about the connections I’ve made along the way. My focus for this post, and the once’s to come in … Continue reading TWIL: Week One
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading a book called Atomic Habits, written by James Clear. This book is based around the four laws of behaviour change: cue, craving, response, reward. Each section of the book focuses on these four laws, in the result of replacing your bad habits with good ones. The main message in the book is that, the little steps … Continue reading “A Long Series of Small Wins and Tiny Break Throughs”
Why 1950? After learning all about the fall of WWII in our last unit, as a class, we jumped right into the raging rise of the Beat Generation. As we walked along side the white picket fences of the suburbs, we noticed the prominent dividing line between the house wives, and husbands out on their perfect green lawns, and the beat niks. From here, … Continue reading Cantina Bands, and 50’s Demands
Introduction to Tribalism This unit was launched by the exploration of the meaning of the term tribalism, and what connections it has to our society today, and in the past. Here formed our driving question: “What is the role of tribalism in society” Before we worked towards creating a definition of tribalism for ourselves, and an answer to its role in society, we … Continue reading “Man Produces Evil as Bee Produces Honey”
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted on my blog, and I’m here now to write all about my opportunity I had to travel to New Mexico early this October. I was slightly confused why we were traveling to New Mexico before we started our trips unit, sure maybe the green chile and breakfast burritos were apart of the appeal, but as my class … Continue reading Balloons, Bombs, and Burritos
