Something I’ve struggled with ever since I’ve joined PLP is drawing the line, when my work is finished. Even though I’m extremely thankful for the opportunity to revise work in PLP, unlike other classes in school, I can have some trouble figuring out if writing another paragraph, or doing another diagram is really worth it, and hopefully by the end of grade 11 I’ll have this figured out for myself.…
President Truman and Lord Macbeth This post will be the first of many in a series called: “This Week I Learned” (TWIL). As our class studies two different (or maybe not so different) subjects, I will be reporting here on my blog each week to write about the connections I’ve made along the way. My focus for this post, and the once’s to come in the future, will be based…
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading a book called Atomic Habits, written by James Clear. This book is based around the four laws of behaviour change: cue, craving, response, reward. Each section of the book focuses on these four laws, in the result of replacing your bad habits with good ones. The main message in the book is that, the little steps matter much more than you’d…
Why 1950? After learning all about the fall of WWII in our last unit, as a class, we jumped right into the raging rise of the Beat Generation. As we walked along side the white picket fences of the suburbs, we noticed the prominent dividing line between the house wives, and husbands out on their perfect green lawns, and the beat niks. From here, we were to study the…
