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Write or Wrong?

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On April 17, 2025

In Humanity’s

Hey everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today I’m talking about my latest project “Write Stuff,” where we focused on writing stuff, but more importantly, we learned about writing like ourselves, with our voice. So that for our final product our teachers could identify who wrote what article without a authors name on them.

We wanted to make something to show who we are with text. We learned that our voices are totally unique and can shape who we are, even in writing. Writing is just a way to use that unique voice, a way to carve out our identity in a world where machines can copy us but can’t truly create like we can. This project was all about finding that voice, fine-tuning it, and learning how to use it.

😔Drafting😁:

We made a ton of drafts of our final project until we got something that was good enough, which I personally found pretty interesting at the start, because if the whole point is to sound like yourself, how can you mess up??? But as we kept rewriting, I realized just how hard it can be to make something that sounds like you but also says everything you want to say in a legible way. Here’s what I came up with for my final product, honestly, I’m really happy with it.

🕺Stay With Me💃:

I think the thing that stuck with me the most on how to use my voice was to use words how I use them, not just how they should be used. Hopefully, you can see that in my current writing, but more importantly, in my final product piece.

Another helpful skill I got from this project was reading my work out loud as I make it, which can really help me come up with ideas, but also can help me sound more like I do in real life. So that my teachers and other readers know its me.

(Which sometimes can be a good or bad thing):

🥀Growing From Mistakes🌹:

I think something I could’ve improved on during this whole project is my mindset when we were going into the project at the start. I think I unfairly set a negative idea of how the project would go when I heard that it would be about writing, which made me care a bit less at the start. This was totally the wrong thing to do because now that I’m done, I can say that I had a ton of fun and would totally do the project again. Sadly, I can’t do it again, so instead, I’ll make sure to try and stay positive when going into a new project in the future.

Mpol 2025

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On March 11, 2025

In Humanity’s

Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning, responsible, and accountable for my progress. You can expect an honest evaluation of my achievements and areas for growth. We will discuss my strengths, opportunities for improvement, and my goals for the future. Thank you in advance for listening and offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

Today I will discuss and go over the topic given to me by Ms. Maxwell: “How can I refine my vision, mission, and values to better achieve my vision?” 

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BCFP Combro Road to ReconciliACTION!?

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On February 28, 2025

In BC first peoples

Hello everyone welcome back to my blog. This post is going to be a combo of a few projects because I’m behind. Those two main projects that I’m going two talk about are “Road To Rights” and “ReconciliACTION”. 

I’ll start with the earlier project but for a bit of context about the project before I start telling you about all the details of what I did, for “Road To Rights” was focused on the question “How might the acknowledgement of rights impact Indigenous peoples now and in the future?” We spent a lot of time during the beginning of this project learning about the impact that colonizers’ ideas and practices had on the first peoples of British Columbia. The main thing that we used to learn was the Indian Act because it shows all the rules and regulations that the Canadian government put onto the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia. Once we finished building our knowledge of the Indian Act and its effects, we were shown what the final project would be, which was a 24-panel infographic where each student would make one panel about a significant event that led to the current-day state of Indigenous peoples’ rights. I chose to learn about Orange Shirt Day, which is a significant day that led to large-scale awareness of Indigenous people and what they are forced to go through. Heres a close up of my final pannel –

 Finally, once all the panels were complete, they were assembled into an accurate timeline of important events leading to now and displayed in my school to everyone. Heres how they ended up looking all together –

If I could take some things away from this project, I would firstly want to take the obvious choice of knowing what indigenous people have to go through and the newfound respect that I’ve developed for them. I want to make sure that I educate people on these kinds of things when I hear dumb, bold claims in my everyday life as well.

Now to start talking about “ReconciliACTION,” this project gave us the question, “How might we engage in meaningful Reconciliation?” We started the project by learning how reconciliation is done properly through respectful and proper methods. An example that we used was the 94 Calls to Action, which showed us what needed to be done to achieve reconciliation.

 Once learning that, we learned the most important part in my opinion, why it actually matters in the present day, which is probably the main thing I will be taking out of this project. This project was actually very special not because of the topic, but because it was the winter exhibition project which means we would be forced to teach and present our learning to a diverse audience, and to amplify its importance even more, it was our grade’s first time doing a BCFP project for the exhibition, so we had to make sure we were respectful and thoughtful with all the words we said. My group was tasked with talking and teaching about the different significant dates for Indigenous people and how they connect to our driving question. I had a lot of fun doing this project because of the topic, but as well as I was able to use all my creativity and create a booth setup for my group that would outshine all the other groups. The topic wasn’t too difficult for me because I did Orange Shirt Day for the Road to Rights project, so I was already pretty knowledgeable. My group got along quite well, and by the time it was the exhibition, we had an amazing-looking booth with a fun activity which was a memory-style game and some great information. Here’s what it looked like on the day of –

Hopefully that provided a bit of insight into my work for these projects so that you can understand what I’ve done while still not being too boring or lengthy to read. Thanks for reading!!

How to Digging Deeper (BCFP)

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On February 20, 2025

In BC first peoples

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog! This post is gonna be covering the BC First People’s project, “Digging Deeper,” that we just finished. For a bit of context about the project before I start telling you about all the details of what I did, this project was focused on anthropology with the driving question, “How might we use an anthropological perspective to better understand the history of British Columbia?”

The project started with learning about what anthropology is and how we can use it to learn about BC’s First Peoples. We did a few small things to really solidify our comprehension. We read lots of articles and watched a few videos, but the biggest thing we did to make sure we understood anthropology was a quiz/test, which seemed very important at the time, so lots of people studied a lot. From all that, I learned about the four main types of anthropology:

Cultural:

Studies human societies, traditions, and customs, examining how people live, work, and interact within different cultural contexts.

Biological:

Focuses on human evolution, genetics, and biological diversity, studying how humans adapt to different environments and how they relate to other primates.

Linguistic:

Explores the role of language in human communication, culture, and social identity, analyzing how it evolves and influences societies.

Archaeology:

Investigates past human civilizations through material remains, such as artifacts and structures, to understand historical cultures and behaviors.

Lastly, the biggest thing I took away—and I think will stick with me the longest—is the idea of ethnocentrism, which is the belief that your own culture, beliefs, or way of life is superior to others. This can lead to biased judgments about different cultures, and even if it is not intentional, it impacts almost everyone in some way. This perspective can create misunderstandings, reinforce stereotypes, and hinder cross-cultural appreciation and cooperation. Here’s some other bad things it can lead to with a fun graphic to explain.

Once we all understood the knowledge we needed, we were able to start the actual project. The project was for the class to make an online museum with Indigenous artifacts from across BC that we found in the Museum of Anthropology’s (MOA’s) catalog. I chose a sturgeon-nosed canoe from the Ktunaxa Nation. 

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We started researching our artifacts by writing a short 150+ word analysis with the goal of getting a good base understanding of our artifacts. After we did that, we started working on our actual museum display, which was actually more difficult than I thought it would be. We had to make four different pages, each with different goals: Context and Connections, Anthropological Connections, Nation Deep Dive, and an Interactive Element. Making the page was pretty hard and took me quite a long time because of all the criteria but I think it was really worth it because I got a really good deep understanding of my artifact and the nation that it’s from. Honestly I’m really proud of how it turned out both look wise and information wise.

If I could do something better, I wish that I had a better interactive element because I’ve seen what other people have done, but I’m still sort of satisfied with what I did.

Here’s a link to my full exhibit if you want to check it out. BCFP Artifact Exhibit  

Thanks for reading! Hope you have a good day

The Story Of My Year (TPOL)

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On June 20, 2024

In Humanity’s, Maker, PGP

Now that I’m going into grade 11, I’m really starting to feel the pressure, especially because the consensus that society has made is that grade 11 is when everything really starts to matter. But luckily, this year has started to prepare me, and I think now I have the knowledge and skills to actually do the level of work I want to do. In this blog, I’ll be talking about how I got those skills and learned all that new stuff specifically through the lens of three success criteria of a PLP learner. The segments I’ll be mainly covering are conduct and integrity, self-regulation, and agency. I want to tell the story of my year in a more chronological way than others, so I’ll be trying to demonstrate how I grew in different areas over the course of the year. Here’s the success behaviors of a PLP learner just for some context the ones marked are where I think I’m at right now.

Looking back on my year, I think it could be likened to a 2k or an 800-meter race. I started off strong, really strong. I was really able to put my full 100% into each project, even if we had multiple going on at once, just like in a 2k where the start always feels good and you feel confident. Then, I managed to keep up throughout the start of the year with only a bit of fatigue because of all my activities outside of school. Just like the halfway point of a race, I got into the groove but was a bit tired. If I had to give a percentage for my work, I’d probably say I was still trying 100% but was only able to show 90% in my work. Around the last month of school was when I really started to struggle. I’m not sure why. I think it’s like the part of a race where you’re almost at the finish line but not sprinting yet, and you start to really feel tired and might slow down quite a bit even if you’re trying as hard as you can. If I were to give myself a percentage, I would say I was still trying 100% but really was only doing 80 or 70% until the very last project (Back to the Future), which I’ll talk about later. I think that project was like the sprint for me, where I did as much as I could and really drained myself doing that, but it was worth it for my final project. Luckily, now I know that this happens to me because it’s happened every year I’ve been in PLP. So now I can avoid and be mindful about it so it doesn’t happen to me next year.

**Conduct and Integrity:**

The best project to help me explain the start of my year and how I improved my conduct and integrity would be my podcast project, where I made a podcast about the most important cars in history while still making sure I wouldn’t say anything to upset anyone and also making sure I would follow all the copyright laws so as not to get in trouble. A big part of conduct and integrity is showing leadership abilities, like setting a good example of a learner and supporting the community for each project. I think for my podcast project, I set a really good example because when creating each episode, I booked a local studio in advance and spent over two hours working on recording and editing each episode, all to have a project I was happy with. Because the podcast project was at the start of the year, I’ve had a sort of example to aim for, of what a successful project should look like for me.

**Self-Regulation: (Who Are You Going to Be)**

At around the halfway point of the year, we did a project asking ourselves who we are and who we wanted to be. Creatively, the name of this project was “Who Are You Going to Be.” At the start of the project, I was a bit skeptical, but I quickly got into the idea of self-reflection, and even now I’m still really into the idea of thinking about who I am as a person. Now you may or may not be thinking, how is this connected to self-regulation? So let me tell you how. In PLP, self-regulation is broken up into three parts: focus, balance, and self-care. Because the project was about learning about myself, I got to assess myself, which meant I realized what kinds of things distract me and what things help me focus, like working in a quiet space alone. I want to be completely honest, and that means admitting that even with the help of this project, I still really struggle with balancing my social life, activities, and school. I’m not sure why, but I think I just sign myself up for too many things without thinking. So for next year, I want to try and think more before promising myself something. Lastly, one of the things that I think I’ve always been good at but had heightened by this project is “self-care.” I think I always treat myself well and am able to seek help when I truly need it.

**Agency: Spring Exhibition**

Over the course of this year, my agency has really been going through a lot of ups and downs. From using Things (the app) religiously to not using it at all, I really want to get back into it because it was such a useful tool that kept me on track, but I just stopped checking/using it. Other than my use of Things slowly degrading over the year, my agency in every other area I think has been really good for what I can achieve. My highlight project that shows pretty much how my agency has been throughout the year would be the project “Back to the Future,” where we continued the strain of self-reflection work we did earlier in the year. But instead of who we wanted to be, we thought about what we wanted to do. Because agency is all about being responsible for yourself, this project was perfect to learn more about agency while also utilizing it to complete the project. The final project of the year was for the PLP exhibition, where we had to pitch ourselves to a public audience with the premise of why we would be a good addition to a workplace. So I made an interactive game where guests would hit a guy (target), then I would help the guy get up to show how I enjoy helping people. To create my game and the rest of the work I presented, I needed to use the agency I had and the agency I had just learned about. I took responsibility for my work and what I needed to do. I set goal points to achieve throughout the project to reach the final deadline. The big area I think I can grow on is asking for help when I need it because I think I made the project a bit too hard for myself. But other than that, I think my agency has been really good over the course of the year, excluding the last month.

I know that’s a lot of reading, so I want to thank you for reading all that, and I especially want to thank my teachers for giving me such a great year where I was able to learn and grow as a student and a person. Also, I want to thank my teachers for putting up with my work for the past month. Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a great morning or evening.

DI regionals

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On April 2, 2024

In Maker

DI Regionals can suck. Luckily, this year it didn’t, and instead, it was full of feelings of worry and doubt, but then slightly less worry and doubt, and then finally pride and joy. But what made me feel that way this year, well, that’s what this post is going to be about.

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Crazy?

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On April 1, 2024

In Humanity’s

If I say “that guy’s crazy,” what do you think that means? Most likely, you’re thinking about the mad kind of crazy with smashing things and all that, but the kind of crazy I’m talking about is the one that geniuses get called, the kind that innovators get called, the kind that people say when something life-changing happens, and that kind of crazy is what we had to learn about on our latest project “cray cray yay yay”.

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Who Will I Be?

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On January 29, 2024

In Humanity’s

“Who are you?” It seems like an easy question to answer, but if I told you to really give it some thought and give me a deep answer on who you are, most likely after you gave it some thought you’d agree that it’s not as easy of a question to answer than it sounds. Even for me, when I was asked that question, I got stuck, and then we were told that we were going to do a whole project going over the questions like “who are you” and “What kind of person do you want to be?” I thought that this project would be a cakewalk and I would be able to do all the work without ever really needing to think about it. But then we watched (Michelle Obama who are you gonna be?). And I realized how important and impactful these kinds of questions really are and especially just how difficult they would be to answer.

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How Should We Be Sorry? (Winter Exhibition 2023)

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On January 15, 2024

In Humanity’s

Over the course of the past month or so in PLP, everyone has been getting ready for the winter exhibition, and this year our project was about apologizing and what an apology is. We studied the history of discrimination towards three different Asian groups in BC, and then we were each tasked in groups of three with making a memorial to remember one of those groups and what happened to them.

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New Year New Me

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On December 5, 2023

In PGP

This year, I’ve been trying to get more organized and hand in all my stuff on time. There’s a new class called Personal Growth and Positivity, or PGP for short, which focuses on exactly that. This is my first PGP blog post of the year. ‘New Year New Me’ was the name of the project that the PGP teachers introduced to us, posing the driving question, ‘What strategies can I use to maintain balance in my life and support my own well-being?’

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