Well, welcome back to another year of PLP. This year we are in grade 10 so we have a little bit more expectation in all of our classes. We stated the year off with a bang! There wasn’t much time to settle into school this early as we got right to work on two projects. It was a bit confusing for me to get into the year because we are on a linear system, which means that we have eight classes a year which I have never had before. I am used to having four classes per half of the year, so balancing all of my projects has been a little bit if a challenge, but I’m figuring it out. 

Our most recent project, ‘Why Does the world Need More Canada?’, we learned about Canadas impact on many things kind of like what we’ve done before in Gr.9 in a few projects. I think one of the most interesting thing in this project for me was learning about world trade, and how Canada plays a big roll in supporting world trade. For this project we had to choose topics of interest and make a podcast about them. I would be lieing if I said I was surprised by this, as this is a classic PLP 10 project and both my brothers have done it. 

For my topic I chose Canadas impact on the world through film and how it has changed over the past 15-25 years. I don’t really know what sparked my interest in this project, but it turned out to be a great topic for me, because of my families unique links to film and film making. One of the biggest aspect of this project was a multi paragraph or essay composition of what we learned after researching our topic for a week or two. This is probably what I struggled with the most for a few reasons; one reason was that I find it hard focusing when I write, I always have but recently its been a little tougher than usual, this was a big challenge. Another big reason was I was getting lazy, I didn’t understand why I had to write all of this myself when I could just get AI to say what I was thinking in a clear manner too. I know this sounds ridiculous, but it was a big struggle for me and took a lot of self control not too. I’m sure these sound like really bad or silly reasons to struggle in this assignment, but they were very real for me.
My multi paragraph response:

During the making of my podcast I got the privilege to interview one of my families closest friends Jasmine Barry. her and Her family are so connected to film its kind of crazy. Everybody in her family is in some sort of film crew, weather its acting, producing, or even directing, there is over 10 different links to the film industry in just her direct family. We had a great interview, where we both learned a lot. She answered all of my questions, and gave my podcast the structure it needs. 

To listen to our podcasts click this link: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iaDGGmVTzcZiLuGl3ai3h?si=fAvZY9SkS32UfFYG_0utrA

The driving question for this project was, “why does the world need more Canada?” This is a tough question foor me to answer. It’s tough for me because I am so proud of this country and I could go on and on about how much better in my opinion it is than other countries, but that wouldn’t be very fair. I am going to try to answer this with a neutral perspective of a teenager that has just finished this project. I think the world needs more Canada because Canada gets stuff done. We make progress, even though we are often at a disadvantage. We aren’t as big as our American neighbours, but without us, America would sill be incredibly small and different. Canada supports so many counties and people that would be left unstable and unsupported otherwise.

Overall this project I really enjoyed the opportunity to learn ore about Canadians, and how we all make an impact ono the world. Balancing this project with all of my other classes and  projects was tough, but we got it done!

This project I really had to wake up and realize, “oh, school has started I need to start with it or i’ll fall behind!” This was a great starting project, I loved making the podcasts and can’t wait too make the next ones!