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Colonizing in a Tempest

To wrap up Grade 8 Humanities, this last unit focused on learning about Shakespeare’s play The Tempest and the colonization of New France. It seemed unusual that these two topics would go together, but I sooned realized that many of the themes in The Tempest relate to the early history of Canada. Like always, the…

tPol-End of Year Review of My Work

This blog post is for my TPOL – transitional presentation of learning. We have finally reached the end of grade 8, and the driving question I have to answer in my presentation is “Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade level?” Thinking about this question, I know I am…

Age and Unit of Exploration

The age of exploration means the unit of exploration. Next in our humanities classes was this unit surrounding The New World: Age of Exploration. This title refers to the time period in Renaissance Europe where many new voyages were taking place. Explorers were boarding great ships and setting sail for places they thought were uninhabited….

The Launch Cycle: Sports Edition

Look, Listen, and Learn We began a short unit in our Maker class just two weeks ago. It was about the Launch Cycle, a method of project working that follows seven steps. The first one is to look listen, and learn, so the class began by watching a video about the cycle itself. It explained…

Destination Imagination-Provincials

One might notice the similarities between the title of this post and another one I wrote just a month ago. One would be correct. Destination Imagination (just DI for the purpose of saving our voices) is a large competition where challenges are presented to teams, and the students in those teams work on creating solutions…

Destination Imagination-Regionals

Oh, DI. That group project that lasts for months on end. That difficult challenge we had to solve. If you are wondering what DI is (and wondering why it sounds like die), in a sentence it is; a big organization that holds tournaments for kids where different challenges are presented and students must solve them…

Math at Mid-year

Yayyyyy! Another blog post (this is the third one I’ve done in two days)! This is one about a subject I’ve never fully covered before; math. Math is one of my favourite subjects in school, even if everyone else doesn’t like it. I’d say this year has actually thrown me off course a bit when…

Science at Mid-Year

As you may know, science doesn’t involve as much assignments and projects in Grade 8 PLP, so I thought doing a review half-way through would be a good way for my blog to have at least something from this subject. To connect to a math study, I remember doing a fun experiment were in parters,…

M-POLs: The Work I’m Proud of So Far

It’s getting to the time in the school year where work is getting harder, more events are happening, and stress levels go up. This is also known as mid-year, so because of M-POLs (mid-year presentation of learning), and my own recollection I decided to make a blog post on the work I’m proud of so…

The Advertising Unit

This school year in humanities, our first unit was about advertising, or how what people hear, see, and think influence us. Since this is PLP (Performance Learning Program) we’re talking about, everyone in my class knew there would be a project that this unit was working towards. This project was to make an ad of…