Indigenous status in Canada has a complex and messy history. For decades, government policies, particularly the Indian Act, have stripped Indigenous peoples of their legal recognition. Laws like Bill C-31 were especially unfair and sexist, causing many Indigenous people – especially women – to lose their status due to marriage. This loss had generational consequences, […]
mPOL 2025 🌱
Declaration: Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening […]
Looking Through the Lense of Anthropology 🔍
B.C. First Peoples is a very interconnected course where every bit of information we learn connects and builds upon our previous learnings in meaningful ways to deepen our understanding. At this point in our BCFP journey, we started by exploring the many branches of anthropology and their importance in understanding human societies; afterwards, we then […]
Let’s take ReconciliACTION – BCFP 11
Hello and Happy New Year!! First blog of 2025… my New Year’s resolutions will be to write better intros for my blog… but i’ll work on that later. Let’s get crackin In BCFP 11, our learning journey began with the history and impacts of colonialism on indigenous peoples in Canada; with our first project focusing […]
The Legacy of Hiroshima – Humanities 11
Before this I had vaguely heard of Hiroshima, but now considering its signfigance I am suprised I didnt know more. I have awareness now of not only the short term impacts but the long term consequences of this event. After drowning in notes and creating a giant essay, the more I looked into what made […]
The Road to Rights – BCFP 11
My first project of BCFP… I was interested to start this course as it allows us to dive deeper into the history of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. In socials, we typically touch on this history in one unit, but this course allows us to explore it in greater detail throughout the whole term. In this […]
Embracing What I Can Do
via GIPHY Back in January, we were challenged to think about who we wanted to become and throughout the term, we continued to dive deeper. Now as we near the end of grade 10 we have revisited this question with the intention to consider what might be a possible end destination, career-wise. In turn, we […]
Here’s To The Crazy Ones!
Hello crazy people, welcome back! In this project called Cray Cray Yay Yay (a very professional name), we dived into why it takes a “crazy” person to change the world. ╚════════════════════════════════════════╝ To launch into our project we started by defining what we as a group, deem crazy. This project was structured around the Apple Think Different […]
Goghing Back To DI – Fine Arts 2024
╚════════════════════════════════════════╝ Hello everyone! I am back on the grind at Destination Imagination (DI) woot woot. I was nervous to have to do DI again especially because I had to memorize and act out a script which is wayyy out of my comfort zone. In grade 8 I was in the improv challenge which didn’t involve […]