on The end of an era: I’ve graduated now, and my time with PLP has come to a close. This final blog post will be a short summary of the final exhibition and my time in PLP (and yeah I’m a little crazy, no one told me to write this I’m just doing it because I… Continue Reading 🎓 So long, Seycove
on Months after the events of a grad camping trip gone horribly wrong, the surviving girl is deeply affected by the trauma of this event and is trying to move on, but her nightmare is far from over when she starts seeing the killer everywhere she goes. We just finished the most horrific PLP project I’ve… Continue Reading 🩸 Lights, Camera, Onions! | A Horror Film Project
on If a tree falls in a city and nobody hears it, did it actually make a sound? Follow former city planner Alex Jamieson (with interviews from his granddaughter, Kaia and his partner in crime, Michelle Sheardown) as he describes his continuing battle to convince developers to work around trees, instead of cutting them down, to… Continue Reading 🎥 Who Speaks For The Trees? | A Documentary by Fraser Wagner
on As you can guess from that quote, we just finished a project about terrorism. As you can also guess from the quote, this project was incredibly eye-opening. This project was an “idea sprint” lasting just a few weeks and rapidly covering four sectors of terrorism: liberation, revolution, God, and State. Our essential question for… Continue Reading 🏙️ Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
on “Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” – John Lewis, Civil… Continue Reading 🏃🏿 The Sprint to Civil Rights
on Welcome! It’s mPOL time of year again — and this time is for the last time: my last mPOL before I graduate. In this post I will be writing about my growth as a learner so far this year. I will then be presenting this post to my parents and a teacher in what we… Continue Reading 🗣️ mPOL 2025
on Feminism is “a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians” (qtd. in Wade; Mikkelson). At least that’s how it was described by television evangelist Pat Robertson in 1992. Pat Robertson is entirely wrong, that’s not the intent of feminism at all.… Continue Reading 👸 Should Men Care About Feminism?
on “While not giving a f*ck may seem simple on the surface, it’s a whole new bag of burritos under the hood.” – Mark Manson Shocking title huh? I assure you it’s entirely on theme. We just finished a project in which we read and analyzed a self-help book of choice. I chose to read Mark… Continue Reading 🌯 A Book Involving Burritos, Disappointment Panda, Drunken Poets and LSD | A Self-Help Book Project
on “According to the Toronto police, hate crimes are up 93% in the city over the last year. 53% of those crimes are antisemitic. According to Reuters, antisemitism incidents worldwide are up 400% in the last year. According to Statistics Canada, Jews are the religious group most likely to be targeted for hate crimes. They make… Continue Reading ✡️ Horror of History, Faces of Future | The Holocaust
on “Education got us into this mess, and education will get us out of it.” – Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair This year we were required to take a newly added course: B.C. First Peoples 12. This course was dedicated to learning about the horrific treatment of Indigenous people in Canada. One of the first assignments we… Continue Reading 🪶 B.C. First Peoples
on Welcome! It’s tPOL time of year already! In this post I will be writing about my growth as a learner so far this year. I will then be presenting this post to my parents and a teacher in what we in PLP call a tPOL – Transitional Presentation of Learning – while I talk about… Continue Reading 🗣️ tPOL 2024