For the past month in Humanities class, our group has split into two separate groups and each worked on their own project. My project was more social studies based and we learned about three major events in Canadian history. The Chinese Head Tax, the Komogata Maru, and the Japanese internment. For about a week we wrote notes about each event. Here are some of the notes I wrote:

Then we split off into groups and practiced making memorials for these events. My group memorialized a dead Canadian premier. We struggled to find an idea quickly and our final memorial ended up looking rushed and now how I wanted it to look. Here’s a picture of the memorial we made:

After this in our actual project I took what went wrong in our first memorial and used it to make my new group’s memorial better. My group made a memorial for Japanese Internment. We worked hard to come up with an idea for the memorial quickly and made two rocks split apart. Here’s a photo of the memorial we made: 

And here’s my explanation for the memorial: 

I think even though it was better than my first one, we could’ve planned how we made the memorial better, one rock was made with cardboard and the other one was with a real rock. If I did it again I would use only cardboard for both rocks because it was lighter and made it so we could pick the shape.

Overall during this project I got to learn more about Canadian history and past conflicts. As long as we keep learning and talking about past mistakes, we are less likely to repeat them!