Power is a wonderful thing (or is it)

Hello again. Today you’re here reading about my latest Humanities unit. The Power and how it affects us as humans. But actually though, the driving question was “How does power alter relationships between individuals and societies?”. Let’s get on with it.

Power

Book:

There was one person we most studied during the unit. This person was very controversial in Canadian history, Louis Riel. We read a comic book (displayed below) about his life. We read for four weeks and every week we would have to write a quick summary of what happened in each part and discuss it with our group. Between the discussions we did smaller activities about other people or things from that stage  in Canadian history. Near the end we did a debate ,with a very questionable winner, about Louis Riel being evil or good. I was on the side where we were making points about why he was an evil man. Personally I don’t really think he was a bad man. However we lost the debate because my good friend Emerson from the other side said what he had just said didn’t make any sense and sat down.

However we now know that Louis Riel is the man responsible for Manitoba Boeing a province. And his moustache is one of the greatest things your eyes will ever see.

The comic book we read throughout the project.

Animation:

Louis Joseph Papineau
My Power Person

Our main project for the unit, was making an animation. But about what? Everybody in the class chose a person important in Canadian history and we had to show how they had used the power they had and if they had empowered some people or disempowered them. To actually animate something yourself, you need to draw a lot. I wasn’t ready to make like 1500 frames for an animation so I used my lazy brain to come up with a solution. I asked my teacher if I could use PuppetPals2 where all the characters are already there and you can move them around. And she said yes. That was some good news. Any ways I picked Louis-Joseph Papineau, a French Canadian lawyer and politician. However his era was before Canada became it’s own country. He did live enough to see it though. The story of power I told about him in my animation however was the Lower Canada Rebellion. Being a French Canadian politician in a British colony, he wanted reform. May I add that this colony was Lower Canada where the vast majority of people living there were French Canadian. Louis Joseph Papineau was a great public speaker which took him far. The French Canadiens wanted more representation in the colony but Britain wouldn’t let them. Papineau kept pushing until eventually it sparked a rebellion.

https://youtu.be/IFqpcJBSgDc

If you watched the animation, I hope you enjoyed it and learned something.

Quick reflection on the unit:

I came in a bit late to the unit missing a few things about power but I was just in time for the project. It was actually pretty fun to make my animation, however I wish I put a bit more time into it. I was happy with my final result but it could have easily been better. I learned a few things on PuppetPals and that it’s a lot more useful than I thought it was. I didn’t use FlipaClip because I’m not a very good drawer and when I had kind of tried it, it didn’t work out to well. I like group projects better, because everybody can have their own specialty meanwhile in individual projects you have to do everything. I came out of the project knowing a little more about early Canada, and some key people for the formation of the country we live in today.

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Good Night Ladies and Gentlemen.