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From Inverness To Berlin

Right from the beginning of our studies on Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the 1950s, the underlying theme of ‘Appearance vs. Reality’ has been abundantly clear in both these topics. Making connections between Macbeth’s thickening plot and the rising global tensions of the 50s seems almost too easy. As of right now, we have completed reading and…

How I’m A Poet And Didn’t Even Know It

To finish off the first term, PLP 11 completed a unit combining Star Wars with poetry, guided by the driving question: How can we use poetry to reflect our perspectives on people, places, issues and beliefs? Our goal for the project was to learn how this question can be answered through learning about the poets…

Drinking The Kool-Aid

Just over four weeks ago, PLP 11 dove in to the topic of tribalism, and it’s implications on our world today. Guided by our driving question: “What is the role of tribalism in society?”, we quickly set to work learning and forming our opinions on the topic. To compliment and extend our learning of tribalism,…

120 Hours In The Desert

It has now been almost three weeks since me and the rest of the PLP 11 family returned home from New Mexico, and I’m still coming down off of it. It was an amazing trip, and it made me realize that from here on out it’s pretty much impossible to rank the PLP trips we’ve…

Our Beautiful Backyard

The best field study to date, PLP 10’s Trip around B.C. was truly an experience I will never forget. There were so many amazing aspects to this trip that amazed me, however there was one in particular that inspired me more than anything; the natural beauty. B.C. is world-famous for its natural attractions, but as…

The People’s Podcast

Spanning two months, our latest Humanities unit has just been capped off. Titled, “The People’s Podcast”, and centred around the topic of minorities in Canada, our job was to create a group podcast highlighting a specific minority in Canada. Prior to actually completing the podcast though, we had to learn more about what a minority…

The Great War: Canada’s Legacy

As our latest Socials unit has come to a close, it is once again time to reflect. Since the beginning of the new year, we’ve been working hard learning about WWII and podcasts with the end goal of creating individual podcasts about the war. I was super excited for this unit from the beginning as…

Food, Filming, and Freezing Fingers

As part of our Cray Cray Yay Yay unit, PLP 10 took a trip down to Seattle to explore what it had to offer in terms of craziness. From crazy mindsets to crazy innovation, this city just south of us had everything we could have asked for to help us get a grasp at what…

Is Paul McCartney Crazy?

We are now less than a month away from our first PLP Trip Of the year to Seattle, and the surrounding unit known as Cray Cray Yay Yay is underway. After watching Apples ‘Think Different’ commercial from the 1997 campaign, we were tasked with choosing an individual who was featured in the campaign, and presenting…