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 and Read More…
Frankienstuffie blog post
Have you ever seen a mutated stuffy? In our most recent PLP project we had to make one! This is my blog post for the frankienstuffie project I recently did. The driving question in this project was, how do we as writers make our message clear and engaging to an audience? This project started with Read More…
DI blog post
Destination Imagination is a project based program hoping to unleash the creative power in children’s minds. I had the opportunity to be able to take part in DI this year and this blog post is about how it went. We started this project near the end of semester 1 and had about a week of Read More…
Louis Riel blog post
Louis Riel is one of Canada’s most important historical figures, but how has peoples views on him changed overt time from a villain to a hero? As a final project for this year in humanities we worked on Louis Riel. The driving question is how Louis Riel’s portrayal has changed over time. Over this project Read More…
Metaphor Machine Winter Exhibition Blog Post
A Rube Goldberg is a complicated machine that achieves a simple task and I had to make one about the Irish revolution. This project started with the launch of nation X, a simulated society in a classroom with different classes that get paid differently and have different rights. In this project we learned about how Read More…
Take your kid to work day
On November 1st every grade 9 goes to one of their parents work for the day instead of going to school. When I took part in this activity I chose to go to my moms work. My mom is a lawyer who works for TransLink which manges the transportation system in Vancouver. TransLink has their Read More…
Humanities Rockies blog post
I just went to Alberta for a week, so here’s what I learned. I recently went on a trip to the Canadian Rockies with the PLP program, this blog post is about what I learned in humanities during and after the trip. We worked on the geography comic life and the biggest project of the Read More…
The Trip to the Craziest Place in Canada
As I stepped out of the bus I had been on for the past 5 hours the cold dry air of the Canadian Rockies rushed in and I saw the coolest mountain I had ever seen. A few weeks ago me and 25 ish of my classmates went on a week trip through the Canadian Read More…
TPOL
Mr./Ms. (teacher’s name), this is my mother/father Susan/Matt 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 Read More…
Consequences of Colonization
In the past few weeks we have been working on a project about the colonization North America and the consequences of that. In this project we made an ar video, re interpreted drawings and sketch and tell charts. We got assigned a old European drawing which we changed to a different perspective to fit a Read More…