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BREAKING NEWS!

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Hello and welcome back to another year of blogs. Instead of just doing one post per project we are doing 2, one at the start and one at the end. Now because of this my posts will be shorter than others. This specific project is about WWII but we haven’t really done anything with that just yet. 

What we have done to kick off is how we remember older events in the world. We had to find a old newspaper article and pair it with another news article on the same event. I chose to do the most relevant topic in the 80’s….. The 85 Bears. Now you might be asking why are you not doing something more impactful like the Cold War or 9/11 or something like that. Well I like the Bears so here is my paragraph on comparing the news.

THE 85 BEARS

Intro

For the past 40 the Super Bowl winning team has been a topic in the news on and off including the teams 40 year anniversary this season. They have been called one of the best teams in NFL history going 15-1 in the regular season plus the 3 playoff games. 

Comparing newspapers

It was really hard to find an old newspaper article that i could actually read for free about the bears but after a long time I found one.

Since the start of super bowls 1967 this was the first time that Chicago was genuinely good to a point that the city held rallies and orchestras were performing their theme song. There are many differences like how people talked in the newsapers to today in online articles. Here’s a quote or 2 from each

The quotes

1985: “when it happened, when it finally happened and 22 year of frustration were redeemed.”

“All the bears had to do was line up, look the New England Patriots in the eye and it was done.”

2025: “But nothing — nothing topped the excitement of our sports scene. If you don’t know the history — and if you do, you surely miss it — just try to imagine it.”

From these you can probably see the differences in the language over the years that this event has happened.

I hope you’ve liked this short post and hope that you read more.

TPOL’s! End of the year

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Hello and welcome to my Tpol. I will start of with the POL declaration.

“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 for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.”

Now there are many things I will talk about today but the main question is “How have i grown as a learner.” This is reflected by many things including quality of my work. If you go back to the start of the year and compare it to my work now you can see some differences. My work felt rushed and I knew I could do better. Now going to my work from the past couple of months you can see that it is a bit more thorough and enticing. A good comparison of this would be my animal farm infographic to one of the more recent projects in maker the 7 habits where we had to do 3 post and make 3 videos about the habits.

Post 1

Post 2

Post 3

Now an extension to this has been my work ethic. I have been mostly on top of things when it comes to timing’s and submission which I have gotten better with this year. Now after saying all this you can still see my final comic book is not submitted but I am very close to finishing just needing to finish a bit more drawings. But despite that I have been getting my things in.

Another big thing about work ethic was DI. We had to work a lot to get our machines and scripts done for the competition. This was hard to do with the fact there were some work you had to do with you’re team and some solo work. Overall this is one of the more harder things I’ve done this year.

Now in my MPOL I talked about my VMV where I had some stuff to improve on which I believe I still can my if you look at what’s on it you can see that some things I put down as hard have come more easily by the end of the year. Like submitting and working harder.

My Learning Vision Mission Values

Thank you for listening to my Tpol and would like to hear some questions.

SHARPEN THE SAW: post 3

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Hello and welcome to the final post of the 7 habits. In the last 2 posts I talked about the first 6 and now I will talk about the 7th and final habit “Sharpen the saw”.

There are many ways to sharpen your mental saw like for example exercising and working out. That’s from one of the four ways with the other 3 being Heart, Soul, and Brain. 

Now a lot of people can relate to these 4 topics including me. I use these in my day to day life like playing sports. I play rugby and on occasion with my friends I play soccer. I also go to the gym to build muscle. Now due to these I also relax a lot which for me is watching sports. I watch hockey, football, and sometimes rugby (the sport I play). There is also some other stuff  I do to relate to these like keeping close relationships with my friends and family. Like playing games with my cousins and playing sports with my friends. I don’t really do anything spiritual in my life but that’s just me.

Sharpen the saw is a metaphor for improving things about you if need be which in my personal opinion I relate to the most. 

Now for the final video I was not here for the filming so sadly I am not in the video. But I still think its pretty good. if you want to read the entire book and get a more in depth look in on the 7 habits I suggest you read “The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Teens”.

Now like any project there is a driving question to answer, this one was

What does it take to be a highly effective person?

there could be many answers to this question but to me the answer is be active.

My fabulous Mpol

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Hello and thanks for listening in advance and for coming to my Mpol. I’m going to get right into it by starting with my Vision Mission and Values.

After doing this earlier in the year I said that I would like a good job, a big one being a trade job. I didn’t exactly say this in the picture but after talking to my Mom about it this peaked my interests. I also talked about getting better at listening which I would say personally that I have done.

Now I have had a lot of setbacks and challenges in this year so far but also have had a lot of success. Like a main one and a pretty fun one was wiring circuits to make them light up a bulb or just produce electricity. This eventually built up to making our own version of operation which I don’t really know how made work with some suspicious wiring. Another big thing was our Running a Remake where we had to recreate a short film off of YouTube. This involved skills that I am pretty good at like editing. Of course that wasn’t my only role in this whole thing including the editor, sound designer, and the main monster. 

 

Mentioned earlier I said I had some setbacks which I did. Like for example making an entire machine for the winter exhibition ( with a group of course ) which was pretty hard. We had to make it so everything would go off properly and lining the parts up so the ball wouldn’t fall out. Another smaller thing was from the project we most recently finished where you had to sew different stuffies together. As you would expect I’m not really that good at sewing. But people said it looked good so I went with it. 

Now this post was pretty short so I hope I drag it on for a bit when a I present but thank you for listening to my Mpol

RUN! Making a mini movie.

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It was a random day and my class had high hopes for the new project to come. We got in and our teacher put us into set group made by her. We then got the news that we had just over 30 minutes to go out and recreate the short one minute YouTube film RUN! We had to decide on roles like who was going to be running and who was going to be the monster. It was a group of 3 so one person was the filmer. Our first attempt was not very good. Sadly I can’t show you because the clips used were deleted but take it from me it was pretty bad.

 

The next few classes were about learning how to storyboard and deciding who would get what roles. We had to make a screenplay about the whole thing which was pretty easy because there was no talking. Just had to wright out all the sounds and actions. Then we had to draw out all the scenes we wanted to do which was all of them from the video and write what shot we wanted to use.

Next were the roles mentioned earlier. We had to divide the roles up equally among the three of us for example filmer and costume designer. We had to find cloths that looked like the ones from the video. My roles were the monster, sound designer, and editor. We couldn’t use the exact sound from the video for the final product so we had to find / make our own using garage band or iMovie. It was interesting lining up all the audio with the clips but after a while it started to sound good.

Team Roles

After we had a few days to edit the video we had to post it to YouTube. I think my group did pretty well with the information given. The forest we filmed in looked pretty well so it looked close to what the video looked like. Here it is

Take your kid to work day: Lots of food

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At the start of November all of the people in grade 9 had a “Take your kids to work day”. To start off here is the driving question.

“How does experiencing a workday shape our view of career choices”

Now you may be asking where did I go? I went to a very nice restaurant called Milestones. My mom is the manager there so I got a lot of perks like… food. Now I didn’t just sit back in an office all day because that would be boring. Instead I was running food, sometimes cooking, and seating tables. To start off we got in around a hour before it opened and started setting up all the tables and the bar. Then I had some breakfast and got to work. I started off as a host for a few hours greeting people, seating tables, and also cleaning said tables. It was really busy at first but then started getting slower so I moved onto the next thing. 

Next I went back in the kitchen and watched and starting cooking some food. First I watched the chef make a good looking burger and fries. It was to send a picture into the higher ups to see if they are making it right. But besides that next actually made and ate some food. It was chicken in a cream sauce with a type of noodles and veggies. It was very good and is one of my favourite things to order there. 

Next I had to interview my mom for this project and have certain questions. We also had to make a video about the day and post it to YouTube. I think my editing was good for my skill level and my shots of the restaurant. I also had to send an email to her after the fact. Here is the video.

In conclusion, I think I would like to work in a restaurant late maybe not forever but just a little bit. This experience was really fun and I had a great time. Thank you for reading this post.

My absolutely cool T-POL

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The POL declaration

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 for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

To start things off

It’s not hard to realize that I have indeed really grown since the first few days of school if you look at some of my newer work compared to my older work. This was achieved by setting some goals to keep me on track. For example I have to finish something by a certain timeframe. That kinda worked, I’m not the best person for being proficient but I can still get something done.

To add on I would say I’m resilient. No matter how bad a project was I still try to fix it to the best I can. I stride for just an okay on most assignments this mostly happens in science with almost every assignment being okay. Another thing is that I come to class ready to learn. I come with the material that we were supposed to do a couple days or the night before. I am on time and don’t miss classes only if I’m sick. You must be asking why I am saying all these things well you had to choose some of these topics from the PLP success behaviours. There’s a bunch of category’s to choose from but 2 had to be from agency. Here are those success behaviours now.

Growth

I talked a little bit about growth at the start but I am going to talk about it more now. If you look back on one of the first things we did In maker becoming a PLP learner and all the drawing you had to do and some of my newer things in humanities like the ads where you can see an improvement on my technical skills. You can see where my editing skills came in handy from one of our projects where we did a small portion with super impose X. For the first draft of the ad I proposed the original photo where the sky was completely cloudy and the water was grey. With my handy work I added in a new sky and water. Although it doesn’t look the best I think I did a pretty good job.

More work ethic

Again I talked about this at the beginning and i will talk more about it here. There are so many things that want to distract you from doing the work at hand and might give into these things. But if you start doing it habits like work for a certain amount of time then have a break for 5 minutes it really improves your work ethic.

A highlight of the year

One of the good things to happen this year was winning second and first place in DI. For this my group and I needed to build a machine to launch a beanbag a certain amount of meters. The first tournament we won first in this category but only won second in it the next time around. The thing we got first in was the instant challenge for being the engineering team with the best teamwork and I can’t really talk about the other thing.

I hope you liked my T-POL and the end

What is colonization to you?

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Unlike my last post that had a little bit of colonization in it ( other post link ) this project is fully about colonization. Perhaps I should talk a little more about “What where the consequences of colonization” which was the driving question to this project. There were many consequences being land taken away, residential schools, and even some good ones like would we really be hear today without it.

In this first part I will talk about the land. When the Europeans first started building in the Americas it was 1608 and the city in question was Quebec. When Samuel de Champlain went to the America’s he didn’t think of it just for trading he saw a fresh start from Europe. This began many wars and treaties I will talk about later. In just the span of 100 years almost 50% of Canada was owned by the Europeans and now almost all of Canada is owned with some exceptions of refuges for indigenous people.

Now I will talk about the wars. The first major war taking place was the one between the Europeans and the Iroquois. Now the Europeans had other indigenous tribes as allies for the war so they had more people. The Iroquois were severely unmatched by the standards of how they only had wooden weapons while the Europeans had guns. This war came with lots of death and the torturing of how many. This war lasted between 1688 – 1697. The war that came before this was the beaver war. What turned from gathering pelts turned into a Great War. As many more Europeans came many more beavers were being killed.

With the decline of beaver population came the hunger for more pelts. From this war beavers almost went extinct which was not very good. From this war many died from the years 1609 – 1701. Mainly the Iroquois died from the addition of guns.

Later on in 1831 residential schools started popping up. Residential schools were made to strip culture away from indigenous people resulting in a lot of death. Residential schools were one of the things that most impacted Canada with gradually finding unmarked graves. These schools lasted from 1831 – 1996 so just about 165 years before the last one was burned and destroyed.

 

Now with all this new found knowledge we were put into groups of three to eventually present a slideshow. This slideshow needed to include some strong factors of colonization like ethnocentrism. Here are the links to both of their blogs, Sven’s blog, Cole’s blog. These partners went on for a while creating notes in one shared document for 2 or 3 weeks. This Was real fun because we got to pick our groups, well got to suggest some people for the teacher to decide. I think my group did pretty well and I will post the slideshow at the end of the blog.

After we finished the presentations we got pretty much the final task to make a 2 slide slideshow with 3 words on each. The upside was we got to use notes to help remember what we are talking about. To my knowledge I think my friend and I did a pretty good job. Forgot to mention that it was an individual slideshow not in groups like the other one. 

So in this post I talked about some properties of consequences of colonization and long lasting effects. I do hope you liked this post mainly of colonization and I will see your in the next one. 

Consequences of colonization

A surprise post. MPOL’S

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Words of wisdom (declaration)

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 for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

What was first

Now First we have probably the most important project and one of my personal favourites the blogging challenge. After every project we have to wright a blog post about the project and without this project there wouldn’t be any blog posts which is really sad. This project taught me how to format and how to make good blog post ready for review. This project also told me how to make the blog besides from the posts which is the most important part. 

My favourite thing I’ve done🎮

My favourite thing I’ve done was indeed my scratch game which was really fun to code and. Build.

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A silly pirate story.

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A plundering beginning 

Having to make 3 blog posts in 1 week is very time consuming and a long process. But in this project I’m going to talk about a project that was just OK and thankfully not that much homework this time. But besides that in this project we learned about how European explorers got to the America’s and a little about pirates. A very interesting topic to write about and could even be converted into a story. So the very first thing we did in this project was we had to right a paragraph of more about a made up pirate or Viking story now of course I chose to write about a pirate. The story I think was about a pirate cursed by a wizard can’t really remember but I think that was it if not I don’t really care.

Gadgets and gizmos 

The next big thing we did in this project was learning about different items they used to navigate the open ocean. These items included a compass, a astrolabe, a cross-staff, and the back-staff. These items were important to sailing because they were using the stars to navigate before then. It gave them a sense of direction to get to their destination in the times of old, the cross staff and others is kinda like gps when there were no satellites to give off signals or modern technology to help them. Another revolutionary item for the time was a sailing ship in the name of the caravel.

Different types of ships

Now the caravel was different to all other ships because the caravel was smaller and had a shallower keel, also having triangular sails. This was important to sail upriver of against a current of water, also with the sails attached it was much more maneuverable and could sail closer to shore. Even more facts because the sails were triangles the caravel could move super fast beating all other ships by far which was very helpful to getting to destinations fast. Now with other ships they were big, bulky and very hard to sail upriver or against a current so why even get other ships.

The cause and the consequences

The next thing we did was we learned a bit about the cause and consequences of explorations. An example of this is the Europeans needed new materials, they traded pelts with the first people (this would be short term consequence), this lead to the Colombian exchange of all new spices and animals (long term). Now these consequences were mostly good but some we pretty bad like trading slaves and converting people to Christianity. If I keep talking about these this post will be too long so here’s some pictures.

The invention of my story

Now we knew that eventually we would be writing a story with it being 4-5 minutes long which is kinda a long time for a short story. So we started off writing a story mountain with enough detail to it that you could use it the full story. Now after that bit that I had to redo a couple of times it was time to make pictures for our final video. This process took some time of tracing and finding good photos to trace that goes with the story. So after all that work I went outside one sunny day placed down all of my pictures on an app called AR maker that we had to do it on. I filmed went home and recorded voice lines. Finally I was done and here is that video.

The big driving question🏎️

Now the question is How can we use storytelling to investigate what sparked global exploration and understand its impact? Now by telling story’s of different lands it could influence more people to go exploring thus leading to most of the world being found.