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Girl Power

After the longest ten weeks of my life, that’s a wrap! The first quarter of this crazy school year is complete, and that means that so is the first half of PLP 12. Somehow, I made it out and am alive to tell the tale, so here goes. As you would know if you frequent…

Pics, Pamphlets, and Perspectives

Undoubtedly the strangest I have experienced, these opening weeks of the school year have gone by faster than I could have ever imagined. An absolute whirlwind, adjusting to the new normal at school has proven to be quite an interesting ordeal. The advent of an accelerated format was certainly a rude awakening, kicking off the…

Wickstone’s Weekly Work – #1

Aside from the posts I normally write on here to cap off a project, over the next few weeks I will be posting what I learned throughout each week in a summative post on the weekend. I will be doing this in an effort to open up a bit more, and to see how I’m…

A Tough Question With A Tougher Answer

For my third and final Think & Create post, I used this opportunity to collect my thoughts and produce a podcast in which I discuss a question and topic that has been on my mind throughout the research stages of our socratic seminar. Whilst my group has been preparing to tackle the question “Are we…

A Story Of Progression

With the current state of the world and the lifestyle we have all felt, I finally have an excuse for that feeling of time passing at strange speeds. On one hand, its ridiculous to think Im headed in to grade 12, my final year at high school, but on the other hand, my god does…

Macbeth Meets the 50s

6 months later and let me just say that this isn’t the way I expected this unit to come to a close. From scheduling issues to equipment failure, a global pandemic was last on the list of things I would have bet on ruining our film. It has now been 3 months since we ground…

Same Old America

It has now been over 3 months since 25 year-old Ahmaud Arbery was out for a run through a Georgian neighbourhood and was shot and killed after being pursued by vehicle by a pair of white men. Another white man was following in another truck, recording a video of the murder, which he later anonymously…

Then vs. Now

When trying to think up what I was going to do for this first Think & Create, I found my mind cluttered with random thoughts and ideas. These ideas though, they weren’t tangible, they weren’t an honest representation of what I was connecting to in this project. Thats when I decided to take a step…

Making The First Move

Over the past week, we have focused more on Macbeth than the 1950s, so for this third and final TWIL post, I will be connecting Macbeth to 1950s related-themes I have discovered myself. We have made a lot of progress in Macbeth, and are approaching the end of the play. This week we have reached…

As The Great Alex Russo Once Said…

…Everything is not what it seems! In this weeks learning, we continued our reading through Act 2 of Shakespeares Macbeth as well as our learning on the 50s society of the US. As we moved on from the first act of the play, we began to see the plot thicken. More and more was starting…