Why do politics matter and why should I bother? Greetings subjects of Danialistan! It is with great pleasure that I announce the completion of my 58th thought! For this most recent PLP exploration in humanity, we discussed politics; why don’t young people care, and how do we get them to? Personally, I am really fascinated […]
Category: Humanities
Thought 57: UPLOAD YOUR BRAIN 🧠
How can we use a formal debate to convince and audience we’re right? Welcome back to my blog. Sorry it’s been a while. I just woke up from a long nap. This project was all about debate. Eventually, our final product would be a formal debate against another student, presented at the PLP Winter Exhibition. […]
Thought 56 Pt. 1: A Message to the Youth
How to NOT Peak in High School Prologue: A Portrait of a Failed Man Let me paint a picture for you: You, age 25, show up at Seycove because you need something to do with your time, other than being able to hold a job for a month at a time. You park your car […]
Thought 53: Lies and Incongruencies
Thought 53: Lies and Incongruencies Welcome to my blog post on our final Humanities 10 project, Lies and Incongruencies. For this project, we went to Canada’s past to analyze the idea of truth and reconciliation. The first thing we did to start this project is a poem. Specifically, we each wrote a poem about where […]
Thought 51: Save Juno Beach 🪖
Thought 51: Save Juno Beach 🪖 Why is it so important to preserve the juno beach centre? In this blog post, we will be talking about our project on World War II. We started this project as all other start, building knowledge. To do this, Ms Madsen spent about a week showing us presentations about […]
Thought 50: Power Of Imagination 🎢
Thought 50: Power of Imagination 🎢 How do Disney theme parks shape and influence the cultural, economic, psychological, and social experiences of visitors? Welcome to Part 2 of my Disney world series. My first blog post in this collection is about our Trend Video project, which you can read by clicking the link here. That […]
Thought 47: Romeo and Juliet 🎭
Thought 47: Romeo and Juliet 🎭 Sepaus, Sepaus, where art thou blog post? ‘Tis here. For this Humanities project, we took a look at the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. We had a very short time to do this project, so we started right away by spending a week reading through the play. We read […]
Thought 46: Ology of Apology 🇮🇳
How can we keep apologies for past wrongs alive so they are remembered – and not repeated – today? For this project, we took a look into the past injustices of our nation. We started by listening to a short podcast about the history of halloween. I can’t really remember why. We started the project […]
Thought 44: Gold Digger ⛏️
Thought 44: Gold Digger ⛏️ How did the discovery of gold shape our province and its people? “Wake up. Its the first of the month.” – Jordan Carter If you couldn’t tell from the quote above, this is the first blog post of PLP 10. For our first project of the year, we picked things […]
Thought 37: The Great War 🔫
Thought 37: The Great War 🔫 How might we use graphic novels to understand Canada’s involvement in WWI? World War 1. The Great War. The predecessor to the “not so great, but still alright” World War 2. This project is all about the First World War. We began this project with an introduction to a […]