Humanities 8 | Grace’s Blog

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 Renaissance: Researching and Remebering

Our humanities classes have moved through time, finally reaching one of my favourite topics; The Renaissance. From the best artists and brilliant minds to the ever growing businesses, this unit promised to be interesting. Beginning right after the past unit, my class jumped right into economics and ended with a visual project. Throughout the whole…

Medieval Myths and Makings

The Middle Ages, a time period from 500 to 1000 AD, was a rather gloomy time in history. In the unit we’ve been working for quite a while (Stitch in Time; Feudalism to Nation States), the lessons went through time with the driving question “How did the Crusades stimulate cultural, social, and political change for…

Poetry in Motion…in Class

After completing the previous unit in Humanities class (on worldviews and religions), I thought we were done with it. I was quite mistaken, as another course came up on poetry, specifically worldview poetry. A substitute teacher came in for a week and taught us all about poems, terms, and how to apply our worldviews….

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…

Worldview and Religions

Religious worldviews and how faiths impact people are highly important topics to know about in many parts of life. These ideas are part of what my classmates and I were assigned as the next unit in our humanities classes. The driving question was “How is religious worldview represented in the real world?”. Starting This Unit The…

The Winter Exhibiton: A Star Wars Story

A short time ago in a classroom far, far away….. There was a student named Grace who made a project on Star Wars. That student is me, and the project was based off my inquiry question (something I wanted to research about Star Wars). When my teachers announced that this year’s winter exhibition, where we would…

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…