And Everything It Takes Me to Get There

Category Humanities

A mix of social studies and English.

Compulsion

Could you imagine living in a world where companies would live in a world where corporations would do anything to increase profits? I’m guessing you can. I can too because it sounds exactly like our world today. But what happens… Continue Reading →

We Need to Fight

What is going on in the United States right now? As a young Canadian interested in politics, this is a question I often find myself asking. Recently it feels like everything is getting extremely crazy extremely fast. A lot of… Continue Reading →

What is Reconciliation?

What do you think of when you hear the word Reconciliation? Something I have noticed is that, even though we hear that word a lot in Canada, a lot of people are confused, or even mislead about what it means…. Continue Reading →

How to Find Your Voice

How do you know me? Maybe I’m your family member, your student, your friend, or maybe I’m just the person you know from reading the text on your screen. Maybe you’ve been keeping up with my blog and taking a… Continue Reading →

Crazy People Change the World

When you think of crazy, you probably think of some person with weird hair and interesting behaviours. If I said that it takes a crazy person to change the world, you would probably think I’m crazy. I’m here to tell… Continue Reading →

What Kind of Person Does it Take to Change the World?

Why does it take a crazy person to change the world? That is the driving question for our current humanities project: Cray Cray Yay Yay. This is a reasonably long project that involves a field study to Seattle. We would… Continue Reading →

Who Am I Going To Be?

Who am I? According to the About Me page I wrote in grade 8:  My name is Silas. This is the blog that I have created to showcase some of the work that I have done in my program PLP… Continue Reading →

The Importance of World War II

Why is it so important to learn about Canada’s involvement in World War II? This was the driving question for our most recent Humanities project, Save Juno Beach. Our goal was to answer this through the means of a formal… Continue Reading →

Seeking a Just Society Through Conversation

What is a just society? This is the question that we asked ourselves as part of our newest humanities project. The real question is, how do we figure this out? The concept of a just society changes from person to… Continue Reading →

The Two Sides of War

War is glamorous and fun. It is a patriotic adventure for the bold. Or is it? For our final humanities project of PLP 9, we explored the contrasting narratives of war. The project was called Dulce et Decorum Est, which… Continue Reading →

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