It is not often that I feel ecstatic about a project as it is being introduced yet in this one, our last project of our grade eleven year, I did something meaningful, driven by an initial care that carried me through. I keep thinking the same thing. “That was incredible!” It is what continues to […]
PLP 11
Tpol: Growing Like a Cedar, Blooming Like Spirea
Expectation: Ever since my brother entered his grade 11 year (which seems like an eternity ago), I had heard and felt the warnings of the grade 11year. It was “the year that mattered” “the year that defined you”. It was “the hard year”. Now imagine grade 8 me, sitting in quarantine, thinking about what I […]
Stories of hope – Holding On To The Right Handle
I can confidently say that this was the most difficult, most mentally gruelling, most grit-inducing, anger-producing, mind-bruising, and confidence-losing project that I have ever done and… I can’t be more proud of it. My task for this second to the final project of my second to last year in high school was to discover the […]
What Makes a Story of Hope?
“What is a story of hope?” Was the question I was tasked to answer in this reflection. There are often many ways to answer an open ended question like this, and although I believed that the definition for a story of hope was an interpretation of one’s own personal opinion, I have come to the […]
When All That Is True Is The Moment And You
When I entered the doors on my first day of high school, I would have never thought that this would be a place where I would navigate my way through the world. I mean, I knew I wanted to achieve great things but there was never the thought that the tangled web of past and […]
MPOL: A New Approach To High Expectations
This year started as a continuation of the last. Not in the same “I’m done let me sleep” feeling as I exited the school doors, but the same personal expectation of high-standard, meaningful work that guided some incredible accomplishment and discovery. In my TPOL last year I had said that the learning I completed in […]
A New Relationship With Time and Literature – “Macbeth”
As I noted in my Manhattan project blog post, I believe everyone is connected. And I don’t mean in the Airy fairy, “I feel the pain of the person 5000 miles away from me”, kind of way. I mean the connection that defines what it means to be human. It’s what defines our identity and […]
Splitting The Atom – Making Sense Of Chaos.
This year I realized that there is a reason for chaos. I realized that when everything seems surreal there is always an underlying truth that offers the wisdom of a solution. I can say that I am finally starting to understand the simple complexities of the mysterious world that I live on. I am beginning […]