Getting Good
Despite not reading nearly as many self improvement books as Ms. Maxwell, I am an enthusiast of the genre. How I go about self improvement may differ from her approach. I prefer to...
Author: jakubh
Catalysts of Caring
We were introduced to this project with the question “Why should we explain the Holocaust to a 10 year old?”. This question sparked me to think about our society and how we ourselves may...
Catalysts of Change
In this project we learned that ideology changes over time and about the people, things, and events who spark and use this change. We started with learning about how LA changed over time. We...
The Vast Minority
Equality is not inherent in nature so it only makes sense that it is not inherent in us. Despite this, people have, for centuries, strived for equality. In many respects they have succeeded. In...
School Based Democracy
Welcome to Schools, what is this good for? In this project, we have been working through the question of How we can change schools to make them better, ultimately presenting our work and theses...
Tpol 2022/23
It’s that time of the year again, time for the Tpols. This year has been filled with, fun, pride, and some frustration. As well as quite a bit of sickness back in October and...
Stories of Hope
My most recent projects was about Stories of Hope. We were answering the following driving question: What lessons and inspirations can we draw from the stories of individuals and communities that have faced tragedy...
The Power of Power, a Blog Post about the Velvet Revolution and the Cold War
In this project, my class and I learned about the Cold War and then were tasked with creating a comic book about a certain aspect of it. I was never really interested in the...
An Assessment of Hope in Stories
Cambridge dictionary defines hope as to want something to happen or to be true, and usually have a good reason to think that it might. In order to understand the role hope plays in stories...
MPOL 2022/23
I think that there is a place where I would like to start the story of my current learning progress, and that rightful beginning is in my mind, before the Loon Lake trip. I...