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 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 Welcome back! I’m in PLP 12 now, and we’ve been working on two pretty cool, but somewhat dark, projects so far this year: horror and dystopia. While the horror project is still underway, this post will reflect on our recently completed project on dystopia. The goal of this project was to discover How Can Art… Continue Reading 💔 Handmaid in America | Dystopic Conceptual Art
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 This project was a bit different than most because we got to create our own personal inquiry question that connected back to the concept of how fear influences the world. I created a Smart Brevity website about the history, present and future of Canadian Arctic defence plans. Click the card below to see my final… Continue Reading 😱 Canada’s Evolving Arctic Defence Plans | Fear Factor
on Field studies are a fantastic way to learn and connect to the world outside school. I’ve gone on a two field studies to Loon Lake, a short 45ish minute drive from Seycove. Generally however, field studies are to places far away that require plane travel to get there. Although I would love to go on… Continue Reading ✈️ My Thoughts on Field Studies
on Why do politics matter and why should you bother? That’s the question we were working towards finding an answer to in our most recent Humanities project titled “Who cares and why bother?” This project centred around politics, the structure of the Canadian government, and why young people should be involved in the political process. Throughout… Continue Reading 🗳️ Why do politics matter and why should you bother?