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Becoming Daniel 2.0

Without a doubt, this year of PGP has been the best impactful on me, and has genuinely helped shape me in to the person I am right now. When I look back on the Daniel from September, I was so much less in tune with my goals and ambitions, and ever since Atomic Habits has…

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…

Do You Even Lift Bro?

Similar I’m sure to many of my friends, I spent the first month of quarantine in relax mode. It was spring break of course, and I knew I wasn’t gonna be heading back to school any time soon. That meant vacation time. Time to stay up late and wake up in the afternoon. Time to…

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…

Taking My Foot Off The Gas

Even though I feel like I say this every year, its really crazy to think that we’re already half way through the year. This year has been quite the whirlwind, with so much going on in so many different areas of my life. Even in just this school alone, I have found myself spread thin…

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…

1% A Day Keeps The Failure Away

Over the past couple months, I have been more invested in an assignment than ever before. As part of PGP 11, alongside my classmates, I was given the task of reading James Clear’s New York Bestselling book: Atomic Habits. Before I even begin breaking down the book, I want to make it known how very…

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…