“I am here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effected under the Obama administration is being rescinded” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Tuesday at the Justice Department. A program that had protected nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation. Obama brought this program […]
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The new and improved SLC
We made it to that time of the year again… everyone’s favourite part!!! SLC’s, I mean TPOL’s. (Transitional presentation of learning), personally I like the name SLC’s better but whatever. Anyways our main question for the TPOL was “Why do you feel you are ready to advance to grade 12?” It still is so crazy […]
Is Innocence Targeted By Evil?
Wow we finally made it to the final concept blog post! Over the past few weeks we have been leaning about 7 concepts Power and Authority, Humanity and Inhumanity, Violence and Destruction, Human nature, Civilization and Savagery, Innocence and Evil, and Individualism and Community which were formed mainly around Lord Of The Flies and our […]
Thinking all the way back to April…
Thinking all the way back to April and what we have done since then is a lot harder then you would expect. I honestly had to go back in Showbie to remember, give me a break it’s the last week of school. Anyways lets start at the very beginning of the Fear Factor Unit. During […]
The Beliebers
When Ms Maxwell told us that we would be doing a Debate for our end of the year exhibition I was not happy. I did not want to do it at all, first of all because I did not like talking in front of people, second of all we were not going to know the […]
Helmut The Great
So about a month ago our PLP class had the amazing opportunity to get to meet and listen to the story of a World War II veteran. This was Helmut Lemke, a German solider who fought on the Russia front. It was such a privilege to be able to meet this incredible, brave, courageous human […]
Spring SLC…
Its that time a year where kids in the PLP program spend lots of time working on SLC prep when the whole thing only takes 10 minutes. Spring SLC’s… i don’t understand how its spring SLC’s when it is snowing outside. IT’S NOT MEANT TO SNOW IN SPRING ! ! SLC’S are pretty much the […]
Canada’s Role In D-Day
Hello again, its me! And yes that’s the best title I could come up with… Anyways, for this blog post we had to choose 1 of 3 events “The Italian Campaign”, “D-Day” or “The liberation of Europe”. For me D-Day seemed the most interesting and to be honest the one I remembered the most information about […]
Big Mission Tomorrow
This blog post may look quite familiar to a previous one I had done, that is because it is the exact same thing but in a different time period. This unit had been all around World War II, including the Great Depression and The Roaring 20’s. If you never saw the first blog post I […]
Was There Any Way The Great Depression Could Have Been Avoided?
I’m back yet again, with another amazing blog post… well amazing is a big word, how about moderate. Ya that seems more like it, okay lets try that again. I’m back yet again, with another moderate blog post. Okay, thats more like it. Dang I really need to start getting my work in on time…. […]