“How can an understanding of nationalism of the past, help us make sense of today?” That was the question that drove this whole project. The end product was an Instagram post that was all about how different nations show nationalism. We each chose one of the topics in basecamp related to nationalism for our post. I chose to do french nationalism in Canada, because I was introduced to it when we learned about the colonization of Canada, but I was was interested in learning more.
To start off this project we had to learn a lot about our own topic which started with understanding the idea of historical perspective. While we were doing our research, we were discussing about how certain statues are being torn down and if they should be left up, put in the museum, or maybe just take it down in a different way. We learned about how our perspective today is different than the perspectives at that time and how what those leaders did back then was thought of as OK, but today we would consider it wrong. I showed this curricular competency of understanding historical perspective in the confederation simulation assignment, where we were put in teams. My team and I had to figure out if our group wanted to join the constitution. I was in the Nova Scotia group where I studied about their perspective at the time, what they needed with the confederation, what they didn’t need, and what they believed in.
We also did a current events project where we had to communicate a current event that was happening in the world today that showed nationalism. I chose to do the emergency act extending in Canada because that hasn’t happened in a really long time. I was very interested to read up more about it because I had never heard of it before. I discussed my research in a small group which went very well. Another way I showed the communicate compellingly curricular competency, was in a caption to go with my French nationalism images. I collaborated with my teammates ( Brooke, Zach, and Declan) to make a better one altogether. This is the one we created.
This caption was put together through all the research and evidence we had found out about our topic earlier in the project. I also showed this competency with my opinion writing piece where I communicated my thoughts on French-Canadian nationalism back in the 1700s to early 1900s with evidence from multiple different sources. In my opinion piece I wrote about how French nationalism has always been showed in Canada. It was showed in New France, in the lower Canada rebellion, and Canada wouldn’t be the same without it.
Aside from writing and discussing, a way that I communicated my view and what happened was through the three images that I had to create. I created three images that show the story of French nationalism in Canada starting with the time of new France. Discovering and designing which images that would be most powerful was more challenging than I had thought. Then, with my group we chose four images to put in the Instagram post.
My images
My team and my Images.
Now with both the images and captions done, the teacher put together our
To conclude, I think I’ve showed a lot of learning growth throughout this project. I’m more comfortable with sharing my opinion like I did in the current events assignment and confederation simulation project. I am also getting better at communicating my opinion with the images and opinion piece. My collaborative skills improved with this project which was shown with how I worked with my group when deciding what caption should be our final caption, and in the end we chose a bit from everybody’s. Overall, throughout this project I’ve really enjoyed learning more about French nationalism in Canada over the past few centuries. I find it very interesting the different ways that they show their culture and language throughout the many challenges that were placed ahead of them and how they still show their nationalism today.
experiencing different activities, and learning in a different environment which moved our growth as learners forward. Where is Loon Lake? This is a small isolated lake near Maple Ridge that has a camp called Loon Lake Retreat Centre.
Over the course of the trip we were working on a book using an app called Book Creator to record and reflect on our daily activities. I chose to not bring my phone to all the activities because I wanted to be experiencing the experience and not be distracted. This did affect the design content for my book because I did not have pictures or videos of all my activities I had to be a bit creative.
my learning plan in a few ways. First of all in my learning plan I talked about areas that I need to improve. One of my Humanities goals was: to stretch out of my zone I need to communicate more with classmates. I believe I accomplished this at the Loon Lake Advance as I communicated with my teammates during games and activities, I got to know my classmates more, and I got to know some grade 8’s more. When I look at the collaborating core competency, I think about the shelter building activity. We had to build a type of shelter in the forest using logs and sticks that we found in the forest with a team. My team worked really well together because we 
communicated and we listened to each other’s ideas. We created a strong and large shelter. For the creative thinking competency, I think the shelter building also used this skill and I think we also used this when we needed to figure out clues to find different buildings. For the personal and social competency, there was a lot of growth. During COVID I have not been able to develop this skill outside of school. Just sharing a room and a cabin with classmates (very loud people) gave me an opportunity for growth. In the future, I will write down more of what we did so that I can better 
reflect on what we did. I also feel like I need to go to future field school with the goal to talk to the teachers more. On this trip, I did get very stressed about DI and in the future, I will go and talk to someone about it. One thing that I loved about this trip is that I tried and participated in everything. I even went to the gym to play basketball even though most of my friends did not. The only thing that would have made it better? TEA in the morning. My brain did not function for the first three hours of the day. Future Field Schools must include morning tea.