As humans we have a constant question of what will happen to us? What does our future hold? This thought is terrifying because for most as we don’t tend to think of an amazing future where world peace is achieved and we’re striving as a species. What comes to most peoples mind is a future […]
Category: Humanities
English, social studies
Welcome to Gilead!
During our last project we learned about authoritarian rulers, now were taking a deep dive into dystopia. These projects build off each other very well with similar concepts and will allow us to build on what we have already learned but in new ways and from different perspectives. We launched this project by watching a […]
Democracy is a Verb.
Authoritarian rulings are one of the biggest threats to human kind as we know it. Throughout this project we learned how to navigate and fight dictatorships, using a book called On Tyranny by Timothy D. Snyder. This book highlighted 21 lessons on how to fight authoritarian rulings, we took these concept to create or own […]
My final Tpol!!
During the beginning of school I wrote my Mission that I wanted to complete by the end of the 2024-2025 school year. This Tpol I will cover how I have grown over the course of the year, the progress I have made on my mission and reasons to which I am ready to move onto […]
Finding my voice🎙️
Arguably one of the most important parts of writing is the voice you put into it. It needs to reflect how you speak and think, it has to have a form of personality. In this project we found our voices through our writing. 6+1 Traits of Writing We leaned about how to incorpore the 6+1 […]
Mpol: 2025
At the beginning of the year, we created our Vision, Misson Value Statements. My Vision and mission statement are something that I want to keep progressing on but it doesn’t fully represent what I want to achieve in the rest of my high school career. So this Mpol is a revamp of my goals. These […]
Legacy of Hiroshima: Remembering the past, Shaping the future
Hiroshima by John Hershey is a book that tells Hiroshima from the perspective of 6 civilians. As we read through the book we took detailed notes and had many detailed class disscusions, dissecting the ideas and main points, finding connections to our lives now and trying to understand the legacy of Hiroshima from a new […]
Echoes of Seattle: A PechaKucha Tale
Walking onto the stage, I felt a rush of nerves mixed with excitement. My PechaKucha presentation was about to begin, and I was ready to dove into stories with the audience behind Seattle’s famous music scene. From the grunge sounds of Nirvana to the beginning of Sub Pop Records, and even the Climate Pledge Arena’s […]
Dear future me…
Who do I want to be? This is a question that doesn’t have one answer. It is a question whose answer will change through time and circumstance. At the moment I live life as a teenager and student. I want to do well in school and have fun with my friends. I want to enjoy this time and […]
Tantalus (Winter Exhibition 2023❄️)
Memorials are used as a public memory, to remember and honor a past event, or influential person. Our class started off this project by discussing some notable memorials and we learned how to analyze the different aspects (size, shape, colours, symbology, placement, location) and thought that went behind the design. Some memorials that we talked […]