I Forgot About This!

I know you guys have heard and read about my series of posts titled “This Week I learned”, But you may have noticed that the supposed ‘Trilogy’ is not completed. That is mostly because I completely forgot to do this last TWIL post! Shame on me… Anyways, looking back on all of my learning during […]

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Eighty Twenty

For my first blog post here in quarantine, I have been tasked with reading a blog article from the legendary James Clear, (he is the one author who wrote Atomic Habits). I will be reading a random blog post of his (or one that stood out to me the most), and I will be reflecting […]

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TWIL 2

In our second week of learning about macbeth and the 1950’s we started to get more deeper into our learning. The plot was thickening in macbeth, and we were nearing the cold war in our 50’s lessons. One of the things I drew from the most was the entertainment aspect of both of these topics […]

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The Future

So far this year has been awesome! Ive felt more connected with my teachers, classmates, and friends than ever before. I think that being in PLP for this long has really made things much more positive, this year I’ve really been looking forward to humanities class every day, it is definitely the highlight of my […]

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TWIL 1

For our latest unit in humanities we have been working on making connections between the 1950’s and the Shakespeare play; Macbeth. Throughout this unit we will be doing weekly blog posts giving an overview of what we learned throughout the week, this will be my first one. So far, we have been following along with […]

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Atomic Habits

Lately in PGP, aka the Personal Growth Plan, we have been introduced to a book by James Clear titled ‘Atomic Habits’. This book would help us figure out how to create good habits, how to end bad habits, and how to regain full control of you life. One topic present in this book is taking […]

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BEAT POETRY!

For our most recent unit in PLP we have been focussing on poetry, to be more specific, the literary devices, forms, types, and styles of poetry including beat poetry and certain beat poets from the beat era. Just in case you don’t know what beat poetry is, it was a literary movement started by a […]

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Tribalism

For our latest project in PLP, we were tasked with reading, analyzing, and responding to the very well known novel by William Golding; the Lord of the Flies. In The Lord of the Flies, a group of boys from ages 6 to 12 crash land on a remote island with absolutely no memory of how […]

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Trinity

To start off our second last year in PLP and in high school, we were introduced to a very exciting and intriguing project, accompanied by a trip to New Mexico.  Let’s get started by telling you a little bit about our latest unit, over the summer we were given the task of reading a book […]

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