Marketing Me

I’ve always had to ask myself the question of “who am I?” Almost every single project that I’ve ever done has involved some aspect of personalization, and allowed me to infuse my work with something that I love. In our latest project, marketing me, we got to take a look at the skills we have, and learned how we can transfer them into the real world. In this post, I’m going to take a deep dive into what it means to “market yourself.”

During this project, we planned to do sort of a version of what it’s like to apply for a job. To start, we had a successful businessman, Curt Sheewe, come into one of our classes to give us a talk about how to build a business. He explained things like digital footprints, online presence, and how to make real connections with other people. This was a valuable experience for our class, and I personally learned some new skills in empathy, and compassion. 

The end product of our project was our presentation at the winter PLP exhibition, during which different groups would present, and each group represented a different kind of job. For example, the people in my group were interested in very professional jobs. The people at my table all were interested in doing something related to engineering/architecture. The plan for our booths was that we would have a business card and resume to present to parents. 

We started by creating our business cards. These cards went through a lot of revisions. They were meant to show what kind of person we are, and what career we’re interested in. In the slideshow below, you can see all of the different iterations that my business cards went through. 

 

The resumes were a bit different than our usual PLP project. We got the chance to create something that could be used in the real world. Our resumes were very similar to real resumes, but were much more personalized. My resume included themes, colours, and formats that I feel represent me. I’m not sure that I would be able to use this resume in the real world, I gained valuable skills that can help me build a resume in the future. 


Finally, we got the chance to present everything that we made during the winter exhibition. This exhibition felt truly unique from the others, as we got the chance to put a little bit of our personalities into our booths. We had cornhole, other interactive challenges, and food for our guests. All in all, this project was a huge success! Thank you for reading, and have a great day!

Save Juno Beach

What does it mean to be Canadian, and who were the courageous souls who shaped our country? In our latest project, Save Juno Beach, we asked ourselves all sorts of questions about what we can do to give back to our community, and our veterans. Join me as I take a deep dive into our project!

Our entire project was centered around informing ourselves about World War Two. We watched real phootage, read articles, and did created notes on every piece of the project. This allowed us to look back and review our notes whenever we needed to, and was very helpful. This helped me work on my organization skills, as well as learning how to take notes quickly and efficiently. 

We had two main parts of our project: an essay, and an act of service towards our community. The essay could be any topic that we were interested in that was relevant to Canada’s role in World War Two. I chose to focus on Canada’s shift in trade from Britain to the United States after the war. Even though I have written a number of essays, I’ve never done one in MLA format. This formatting was definitely new to me, so me as well as the rest of my class had to go through a ton of revisions. However, in the end, I was able to create work that I was really proud of. Learning how to format my essays and how to source my work properly will help me with real world experiences, and is a skill that I can use for the rest of my life.

The second part of our project was our act of service. Our plan was to have everyone in our class commit an act of service towards our community, and get a patron to sponsor them ten dollars. We’d use the money from the project to buy a flag that would fly at the Juno Beach Centre. Me and my friend Melissa got a spot volunteering at the North Vancouver legion collecting donations and giving our poppies for Remembrance Day. We spent two hours at park royal mall, and collected around seventy dollars in donations. We got Ron Beesley, who runs the North Vancouver Legion, to sponsor us the ten dollars we needed out of the money that we raised. I felt really good about volunteering, and it helped me feel even closer to my community than every before. 

In conclusion, the country that we live in had been shaped by everyone who had a role in World War Two. Me and my classmates learned about the atrocities of war, and how so many people sacrificed themselves to give us the freedom we have today. I’m ever grateful, and I think that if there’s anything that I can do in the future to help remember those who died, I will do so. This project taught me all sorts of new English skills, but I think the most valuable was compassion. Thank you for reading, and have a great day!