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 […]
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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 […]
Thought 33: Grito de PLP 🇲🇽
Thought 33: Grito de PLP 🇲🇽 Welcome back to my “informative” and “insightful” blog. Today, we are talking about nationalism. We just finished a project on nationalism. Specifically, my project was on Mexican Nationalism. I am not actually Mexican, I am Iranian, but I found out that the only nationalist events in Iran during the […]
Thought 29: Working with Words 📝
Thought 29: Working With Words 📝 To read or not to read; that is the question for poetry. Before this project, I would have chosen not to, but after writing a book on poetry the answer, is maybe. For this joint PLP 8-9 project, we were tasked with writing a book about poetry, to express […]
Thought 28: Revolutions on Trial 🐖🇺🇸
Thought 28: Revolutions on Trial 🐖🇺🇸 I was brought to court, but for a completely different reason than I was expecting. This project explores revolutions and the legal system. We started this project with a Nation X simulation. I have no idea what Nation X is because I was not at school that week. The […]