Another mPol it feels like we do one every year, oh wait. I’m sure by now you know I have to say the Pol promise “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 …
Continue reading "mPol 25 halfway through high school"Remember in grade 9 when you had career day? That’s the base for this project, except we had to set up a job shadow ourselves, interview the person we shadowed, and turn it into a podcast episode. The driving question to inspire us was: How can learning from others’ career journeys help us shape our …
Continue reading "The Ways of a Metalworker"Can you remember having to act in a school play? I was just recently, let me share the experience leading up to and the play. Before we knew we were making a modern version of “Romeo and Juliet” our teacher gave us some background knowledge of how poor the living conditions were in Shakespeare’s time. …
Continue reading "Romeo… in the future?"How can we make the world a better place, with more Canada! And that’s exactly what the last PLP project was about why the world needs more Canada. This project was a mix between humanities and maker, so it was a mega project in a way. You must be wondering what we did to prepare …
Continue reading "How Much The World Needs Canada!"Have you ever thought about how you should stop procrastinating so have I and that is what the FIRST PGP/careers 10 project is about. It’s not exactly stopping procrastinating but it’s about bettering your life with small changes in your habits to shape success this year and beyond. The project was centred around this book …
Continue reading "Atomic but not Explosive Habits"For this short project we had to make a multi paragraph composition about how Louis Riel was portrayed through history. If you don’t know who Louis Riel is, he was considered a murderer in March of 1870 but has been considered more of a hero today. In 1869 Red River Colony was being sold without …
Continue reading "Louie Riel: Good Guy, Bad Guy"CHave you ever realized how most revolutions are kind of the same. Well not exactly the same but more like they have stages to follow. Keep reading and I’ll tell you about the man who first thought about this Craine Brinton. Born in 1898 Massachusetts he is well known for his study on the anatomy …
Continue reading "Lots of change"This is how I ended up in a forest 20 minutes away from civilization. This was the second PLP 9 trip of the year at Loon Lake this time. The main reason we even went there was to build up the trust of our community that pretty much sums it up. I think the best …
Continue reading "Field study nope forest Loon Lake"Last blog post wasn’t about the Alberta trip as much as this one will be and the reason for that is because this is humanities (a mix of social studies and English.) and the other post was for maker. This is not my first field school I went on one in grade 8 to Oregon. …
Continue reading "Albuquerque you mean Alberta"Have you ever been on a trip to Alberta? I was for a school trip! for this really cool maker 9 project I had to make 3 different videos in Alberta and 1 at home video, An investigative video, a short TikTok style video, a silent video, and a what inspires me video. I put …
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