Podcast – WW2 and Hiroshima

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Hello and welcome back to my blog. Today we will be talking about WW2 and the Hiroshima bombing. Or at least what I learned about them. In order to share my learning I made my next podcast episode about WW2 all in order to answer the driving question:

How might we use stories to understand the causes and consequences of WW2?

This project was a series of ups and downs mainly because of how large scale the event was, and the delicacy needed in order to talk about WW2 as a subject. The first thing i needed was information. Ignorance may be bliss but knowledge is power. I decided to learn more about the Hiroshima bombing for 2 reasons. The first is that I am Japanese and I thought that I might be able to provide some insight into how it has a lasting effect until today. The second reason is that I have been to the Hiroshima bombing museum as well as the Gen Baku Dome pictured below.

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/775/

Source: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/775/

I think that I used this competency in the first milestone where we were researching what nationalism is and how to use in text citations. If I took anything away from this project it was how to use in text citations and how useful they are. I felt that I was able to show evidence that backed my claims because of the variety of sources I looked into. One thing I struggled with, with this milestone was putting my ideas together so that it didn’t sound like it was jumping from topic to topic and the reader wasn’t confused.

 

The second thing I needed was an interview, or a story. I did contact a couple of people but to no avail, and needed up using an oral story from the national museum of the Pacific war. Here I learned about a man named Kenneth Evans who served in the war. I also got a interview with Japanese teacher, who grew up in Hiroshima. This interview was really insightful into learning how the bombing effects people who live in the area and what people think about the effects.

I showed the use of this competency not as well as I could have in this project. I did manage to contact a teacher of mine who lived in Hiroshima which I thought was very cool. Adding the personal experiences from someone who lived the consequences and having them be a different nationality helped to elevate my podcast. I was disappointed that I couldn’t get a response and I failed to show my attempts by not cc or showing that evidence. Instead I used a clip from the memory project which helped to show veterans options on the tragedy.

 

I showed this competency when we were doing the literary discussions. I felt that I contributed to the conversation and brought a new perspective that was needed in the discussion. It was also a nice chance to see whether or not I took away the same things as the other students.

One thing that I really enjoyed about this project was learning about stories people wrote about war. One in particular called the “War Prayer” by Mark Twain. This short story was about the 2 sides of war. The honour that it can bring to your country and the devastation the fighting can bring.

In my podcast episode I focused a lot on the consequences of the Hiroshima bombing. I felt that focussing more on the after effects helps to bring to light how serious the situation was, especially since Hiroshima usually becomes an after thought when talking about the war because it was at the end. In that sense I felt that I was able to appropriately talk about the events leading up to the incident and both the direct and lasting consequences shown through the 2 interviews. My Japanese teacher talked about the lasting consequences to people today and why the incident is still relevant, and the immediate consequences through the audio from Kenneth Evans who talked about what he saw at Hiroshima.

Finally I recorded my podcast and published it. I published it to a site called anchor which automatically sends it to other platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. You can check out my podcast here.

Conclusion
This project was really an eye opener and helped me understand how tragic the war was. It also puts into perspective the fact that, even though there were so many deaths in the Hiroshima bombing it was still only one incident in the larger scale of the war. Hearing the bombing from different perspectives allows me to understand the diverse opinions and consensus on the topic. In conclusion my answer to the driving question would be; that there are emotional consequences that last within the Japanese people until today. Being able to remember these tragedies and learn from them so they are not repeated.

Project Podcast – The Greatest Canadian

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Hi guys! This post will be focussed on a project podcast that I did in school. This project was focussed on creating podcast about a topic that we enjoy. Naturally I chose anime. However we didn’t stop there. Our first premier episode had to answer our driving question

Who is the greatest Canadian? 

I decided that the greatest Canadian was Martha Walden. It took me longer than I would have wanted, in order to find a Canadian who was both greatly influential and involved in anime. In case you don’t know the majority of influential people involved in anime are not Canadian. In fact you would have a hard time finding someone who is Canadian. That being said I found someone. Martha Walden. 

– Click here for podcast-

something that I really like in this project was making the script. I personally read practically word for word of my script, so making sure that it made since and had proper features was important. Features is the text that is different from the body. They are what tells me what to emphasize when talking, when to take a breath, how long that section should be and so on. Most of these also went into the transcript. The difference between a transcript and a script is the amount of detail that is put into it. I used the transcript in order to record my final podcast, and my script to record my drafts to figure out what worked and what didn’t.

Script

As you can see, my script has some time stamps, who is talking when, what words to emphasize, and where to take breaths. This is really helpful because it shows me how to speak and where.

Transcript

The transcript is my podcast word for word. if show who is talking, who says what, when they say it, what edits are happening. It also shows the music in the background as well as the ambience.

The recording of the podcast was done in two parts. The first was the interviews and the other was recording myself as the host. I found that recording and editing the interview was really easy to do and didn’t take that much time because I knew what my perspective was and I wanted what the interviewees said to support that. As such I could easily pick up what supported my point and what didn’t. The second part of recording was recording myself which was more of a challenge. I found that because the script was so long I had to record it in bits in order to make it easier for myself. Because of this editing became really difficult, as I had to adjust volumes and transitions so that the overall podcast sounded whole.

– Final product here–

In the end, this project made me realize how important tourism is for Canada’s economy, and through researching Martha Walden, I convinced myself that she really is the greatest Canadian. I enjoyed this podcast now that it is done, but I defiantly felt stressful at times, and there are a lot of things that I wish I had done differently.

Podcasts

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listen to my podcast trailer here.

Hi guys welcome back to my blog. This is my second post since school started up. Today we are talking about a project I did about, you guessed it, podcasts! This project was all about identity and telling the oral story. So figuring out how to tell an effective story using only the oral part. So what did we do?

(oral story)

The first thing that we did was a quick introduction into to oral storytelling. So knowing basically nothing about story telling besides, the basics, we went off and told a story. Listening to the play back I found the I sound really young on audio. This made me realize that talking in the standard storytelling voice wasn’t going to work for my podcast. What I did like about the recording was when I was talking about my thoughts on the story my voice sounded a lot more mature. As such that led me to the style of podcast that I ended up choosing. This style is more of a biased, and expressive one where I am talking to the audience rather than spitting facts. 

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The second thing that we did before actually starting on our podcast was deciding what it is we bring that is unique to our podcast. In order to do this I looked at myself and listed who I am and what makes me unique. In order to do this I created a gif about my identity and wrote a post(link) about what I realized about myself. In the end I decided that, since anime originated in Japan, my Japanese background would be what makes my podcast unique. 

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Finally we started on our podcast trailer. Before we could record I had to make a plan and a script. This way it would be easier to record in one take. My plan was short and simple.

(Add plan)

I stuck with that plan without changing it and am still very happy with how it turned out. I refined the plan and turned it into the scrip that I used.

(Add photo)

 

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Then I recorded. It took me 3 takes in order to get the one I wanted. The first take ended up like this.

Add recording

I found that in this one my voice was too quiet and it sounded very grainy. On top of that I didn’t incorporate anything Japanese which was my biggest thing that made me unique.

Add recording

In this one I re-recorded myself and added the Japanese aspect to it but it still sounded grainy.

Add recording

Finally I fixed the Japanese audio and adjusted the sound to make it smooth through the transitions.

Conclusion 

I personally really like this project because it gave me the opportunity to express myself and my interests. 

TPols 2020

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TPols is all about reflecting on your learning, and this year there was a lot of things that didn’t go as planned. One cannot talk about 2020 without mentioning COVID 19. COVID 19 was a big unplanned event that changed the educational world. Online learning was introduced in order to keep social distancing in place. I will tell you right off the bat, I am not suited for online learning. So let’s get started.

Scimatics

Our Metaphor machines unit required me to use my reasoning and analyzing skills in order to make a functioning RubeGoldberg machine. This was one of my more liked project as it required problem solving and very literal visuals that helped show the solution. This was made in a team of 4 composed of Ally, Holly, Anders and I. We were able to combine our ideas to make a functioning RubeGoldberg machine that turns on an electric circuit that we made. This was explained in a video that shows each part of the machine and explained how it worked. I really liked this project because we were able to make a plan and follow through with it. We came together at the beginning to discuss our ideas, then we assigned roles and everyone did their part equally. 

https://youtu.be/JnaeICd7p3c

Humanities 

In Humanities the project that was most memorable was about ethical judgement. This was a partner project that focussed on decision making and in away justice. I found this project really interesting because it honed in on your morals and beliefs. Looking back in history to decide where someone’s judgment may have been clouded and deciding what is just and unjust was a very difficult task to do. I think that i grew the most as a learner in this project because of how it made me question my own morals it also helped that my partner, Matthew, and I disagreed on our topic and had very different opinions. This was one of the projects that i thought was the most memorable because even though my partner and i disagreed, it didn’t make it difficult to work with them and we were able to create visuals that we were proud of because of the different perspectives that we showcased.

Maker

Destination Imagination was the project that transitioned into Covid 19 panic mode. The regionals was held as usual and went fairly well, but provincials was cancelled. So what did we do? PLP held our own tournament. It was an online tournament where we weren’t really competing for awards but it was a good opportunity to use our problem solving skills, our teamwork, and our imagination. DI is always done in a fairly big group so one of the biggest challenges was finding times to meet up. It was hard to accommodate for everyone’s schedule s therefore a lot of meetings that were done wit people missing. Thankfully we did get it done and I thought that the improvements that we made were one of the better decisions we made. Since a lot of our props were at school, and we couldn’t get them, we mainly focussed on revising the script. Looking back, my favourite part was probably the instant challenge. During the challenge, one of our group members, who happened to be the narrator, was kicked out do to bad wifi right before the time was up. I ended up filling in and bluffed my way through. It’s pretty funny to remember looking back but back then i thought that i did horribly. Which makes me realize that i need to improve my attitude big time.

What has COVID made me realize about my learning?

I need to get better at focusing. If how I work depends on my environment it will most likely get harder for me in the future. So adjusting the environment to what I’m doing is what I have been doing so far but I need to get better at adjusting to the environment. COVID 19 have helped me realize that I can spiral pretty quickly. If I miss one due date, I start making excuses and letting more things slip and before I know it, I’m not attending classes. So I need to find a method that will 1. Keep me on top of my work. And if I get something late 2. Keep it at a minimum. How I’m going to do this I’m not sure yet. But I am definitely planning on experimenting on a few things because I have noticed that reminders aren’t working. I need to improve my attitude, both towards the assignments and to the finished result. If i do badly its not the end of the world is really a lesson that i need to learn and continue learning.

What am I going to do about it?

I am planning on continuing to work on my time management skills and find some other strategies to improve them. Time management is something that I have always struggled with and a big part of that if because I don’t see the point of doing the work. If I’m not excited about the assignment the likely hood of me wanting to finish it is low. Even if the concept of the project is something I like, there are usually a lot of steps that you need to take to get to that final concept and a lot of those steps aren’t as interesting to me.

How can my parents and teachers help?

Please continue what you have been doing so far. Occasionally giving reminders would be helpful but I really appreciate everything that you guys do. 

Destination Imagination Continues

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This whole month has been a blur. Especially because of Covid 19. Events have been cancelled, parks closed, and even the number of people you can meet has been limited. This means that the provincials tournament had to be cancelled. However, PLP would not let the work we did for the regional tournament go to waste! We decided that we would hold an online tournament. It took some creative quick thinking but we did it. So how did we get to where we are now?

After our underwhelming success at the regional tournament my group, Alex, Ally, Julia, Kaden, Ben, and I got together to discuss what we could improve. We had decided that the snake costume would work much better if there was only one person wearing it. On top of that a lot had gone wrong in the species and habitat morph. So we had decided to completely change how we were going to do both of them and were every discussing whether to continue using the snake as our species. In the end we decided that we would keep the snake as our species but we were going to change the costume and the morph. 

For the species morph decided that we would use recycled bottles to create a scale effect and would turn inside out when the actor opened the neck flaps to represent the morph. The plastic bottles also helped to emphasize our team choice element which was recycled materials. Our second team choice element, live music, had gotten a lot of positive feedback and gained us a lot of points so we had kept it in our performance. 

The story that we wrote itself was fairly good but we need more science in our scientific challenge so integrating that into our performance became a focus for us. Finally, we decided that the scissor lift that we had originally used wasn’t going to make the cut. We had used the wrong materials to make it and it wasn’t strong or fast enough to make a dramatic enough effect. Using an air pump became an attractive idea. It would be easier to make and much faster in the transition. We would also be adding lights that turn in once the morph begins to make it happen. 

Of course that was what we had planned on doing before the break started. However during the break, once more and more news about Covid began spreading and restrictions were made we found it difficult to find times to meet up and work on these changes. One of the most problematic challenges that we faced with the online performance was that all of the supplies and props that we had we had left at school. This meant that we would have to improvise with the little materials that we found lying around the house. Luckily the app that we were using, zoom, has a virtual background feature that lets us green screen photos that we created. Our group decided that we would focus mainly of adding scientific facts into our script which ended up becoming our strongest asset. Finally, the most common problem that we found in all of our meeting and in our final performance was the lag and internet connection. There were a few times in our rehearsals where I couldn’t hear what my group was saying and missed my cue to come in. To fix this problem we muted our mic’s or turned off our video. In our instant challenge one of our group members got kicked out due to a connection problem and we had to improvise on the spot.

This was a really fun experience and it was nice to have something to do while being stuck inside. All in all I am proud of my group for being able to adapt to circumstance really well. This project has taught me how to better problem solve and communicate.

below you can see some photos from our online rehearsals!

Destination Imagination

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Welcome back to DI. Destination Imagination is back again and I have just finished regionals in my group. If you remember my last post in DI you would know that last year I was in the technical challenge. This year I am in the Scientific challenge. This year the goal of the challenge is to portray a first encounter between a species and a habitat and show how the encounter effects and changes them. We also have to use technical methods to show the changes in both the species and the habitat. My group this year is Ally, Alex , Julia, Kaden , and Ben. Thankfully all of us got along well and we were able to divide up our tasks evenly. 

Our solution for our challenge involved the Black Mamba, and the forested savanna of Florida. We tried to make our habitat morph using a scissor lift. Our plan was to have the Black Mamba, Bubbles, restore the ecosystem which is where are morph comes in. The story is on the lines of this; the Forrest Savanna of Florida is being over run by a rodent population. This means that the rodents are eating too much seed and not leaving enough for the ecosystem to continue. The ecosystem is unbalanced and the forest is dying. Thankfully, some reaserchers discover this and send for a black mamba to exterminate the rat population. Unfortunately they send the wrong snake and Bubbles isn’t strong enough to kill the palm rats himself. That’s where his fairy snake mother comes in to save the day. They exterminate the rat population, using some magic, and the day is saved.

What we did:
Our final result was defiantly not something I would say I was proud of. True, we had put in a lot of time and effort, but on the day of the performance it was easy to tell that we hadn’t met the requirements of the challenge. We didn’t incorporate enough “science” to the scientific challenge meaning that there was nothing for the audience to learn. On top of that both of our morphs were not dramatic enough and hard to identify. The scissor lift was incredibly slow and hard to notice unless you were watching it the whole time. We had tried to make our own, but we had chosen the wrong materials and it was too weak. By the time we reached the performance we didn’t have enough time to make another one so we had used a premodern one that wasn’t built by us. The species morph, meant to change the colour of the snake, had not science behind it and was just their for flashy effects. We also timed it wrong and had to improvise because the costume was falling off. On the bright side our story wasn’t too bad and our team choice element, which was live clarinet music, scored fairly well. We were also complimented by a couple of people on our set pieces which looked really good.

What we need to change:

After a team meeting discussing the faults of our Reginals performance, our group decided that change needed o happen. A lot of it and fast. We quickly realized that the scissor lift idea haven’t worked and would ba a waste of energy to work on. So we scrapped the idea and decided that we would use and air pump instead which is much easier to make and also looks a little better. We also decided that we would add lights to our tree to make it as dramatic as possible.

 

After talking with Ben and Kaden, who had played the snake, we realized that the costume for the snake wasn’t going to make the cut either. It was too big to fit in the stage area and the actors could not see where they were going. After talking with the audience it was also noted that it was hard to hear what they were saying. So we decided that we would make another costume. This time, we would make sure that Ben could see and that it fit on his cloths so it didn’t take up that much space. We would use recycled bottles to help make the scales on the costume and also become our second team choice element; using recycled materials.

 

The final main change that we would be making is to the story. Though the story did have a good concept to it, we still needed more facts to back it up. As such we are doing more research on the Black Mambas, Forested Savanna, and Palm Rats to learn about how we can make a more realistic story that still has a wow factor.

I find that DI is always really stressing and really fun. I am glad that I have a group that works well together and is open to each other’s ideas. This means that we are able to reach consensus much quicker, and everyone can be happy with the solution that we provide. We are defiantly going to be working hard to get back to where we want to be and you can check out how we did in my upcoming provincials post!

Ethical Jugdment

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Ethical judgment. Who decides what is right and what is wrong? The law decides that and so does the government. However, looking back to the past we can see that they were not always right. Historians now look back and debate on whether or not the decisions of the past were just or not. This is what our class did for the past few weeks. We were tasked with choosing events of the past that were ethically questioning. With my partner Matthew, we decided to research the Doukhobors in order to answer our driving question; How can we present past actions and decisions through images to help us make decisions of what is fair or unjust?

In this project I used the following competencies.

Connect: 

During this project we were also reading about Louis Riel as our primary example of ethical judgment. Reading this book helped me make connections to the real world and history. The book portrayed how the Métis were treated and the unfairness of the government back then. With discussing the book and using my past knowledge from the Star Wars unit, I was able to understand that it was biased and to read it with an open mind.

In this project I learned about how to look at two or more perspectives. This helped me in understanding the 2 sides, not only looking at the immediate problem but also what lead up to that moment and why people did what they did. Looking deeper into a situation helped me learn about what kinds of questions I need to ask to get the kinds of answers that I need. Not only that but researching about the Doukhobors helped me become more empathetic.

I thought that Matthew and I did a good job with our images and adding different layers to symbols. I was most proud of the animation that I made. It had two levels to it. The first was the person who was representing the Doukhobors. At the beginning of the animation I showed him with his hands over his mouth. This represents the fact that the Doukhobors had tried to change. However, after many problems involving land, discrimination, and the denial to practice their religion, the Doukhobors had had enough and decided to speak out and protest. This is shown in the animation as the man lowers his hands, jumps up and picks up a torch. I decided that the reason why he jumped was because he was freeing himself from the burdens of the government. This was also their reason to their choice of protest. They burned their own objects to express their religion and show their freedom of marital possession. The second level to the animation was the background. In the beginning there was the flags of the countries involved as well. However by the end the countries had exited the picture.

Looking back, I wish that I had decided to change one of the photos to one of the government. Since the objective of this project was to be able to look at two different perspectives, it kinds defeated the point when all of our visuals showed only the Doukhobors. Showing the government would show both sides and be more ethically questioning. I also think that I could have managed my time better because that way up I could make more drafts and get more freed back to improve.

This project has taught me about how to look at situations with an open mind. It has also broadened my view on how we can decide what is fair and unjust and the depth of knowledge that we must gather in order to make a decision about a situation. I think that overall it I was able to make images that conveyed a message. 

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Metaphor Machines!

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https://youtu.be/JnaeICd7p3c
A Rube Goldberg machine. It’s a machine that overcomplicates a simple task. Requiring engineering skills to make. This is what we made in our new Scimatics project; Metaphor machines. We were tasked with building a Rube Goldberg machine that solves a task while representing the scientific method. All to answer our driving questions: How can we represent the scientific method? And What factors affect the function and efficiency of electric circuits? 

We spent the past few weeks learning about how electric circuits work and making a machine with our group. My group was: Ally, Holly, Anders, and I. 

In this project I was using the following competencies: 

I used this competency when we did the project start mind map. I was coming up with questions that I needed to know about the project and I was able to make predictions on how we would answer them. At the end of this project I answered these questions and added to my mind map.

  • Before
  • After

I was able to use this competency when making our blueprints. I had to come up with a reasonable design that would work. In my blueprint I didn’t add a place for the circuit which was a problem and though I had a plan of what I was going to make I had no idea how it would work. Thankfully, even though each group member made their own blueprint, we came together in the end and combines our ideas. This meant that I was able to still use my ideas and together as a group we were able to find out how we were going to execute them.

  • Individual Blueprint

This competency was something that I used on the workbooks and test that we had on electric circuits. I used my logical skills to learn about how electricity travels through circuits. I learned about Ohms law and electric potential difference and using reasoning and analyzing I was able to determine how to incorporate our electric circuit into our machine.

Our final product was this machine. We used technical methods to include a wheel, a pulley, and a series circuit. The first part of our circuit is a wheel with symbols that represent the five senses. This part of our machine represents the observation stage of our machine. Then, the ball roles down a slope to a rope that releases another, smaller ball. This ball travels down and falls behind a question mark. This is meant to represent the questioning and hypothesis stage. The ball rolls down as it hits many obstacles to show how this stage narrows down the possible outcomes. This transitions to the experiment stage shown using a beaker. Finally the ball slides down to where two slopes converge. This shows where there are two possible outcomes. A expected outcome and unexpected outcome. Once the ball get past this stage it will fall down onto a light switch that turns on our electric circuit and finally lands in a bucket. This is the conclusion of our machine letting the person choose whether or not to start again or leave it be.

In this project I was really proud at how well our group worked together. We were able to combine our ideas really well and were able to come up with technical methods to create our machine. One thing that I made was the wheel and I was proud of how good it looked in the end and how it worked. Over all I thought that if we were to change anything I wish that we were better coordinated with time management so that we could have finished the video on time. Through trial and error my group and I was able to end up with a really good solution that I was proud of.

https://youtu.be/JnaeICd7p3c

Confederation commercial

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You look nervously at the paper in front of you. Weeks of planning that has lead up to this point. Your comrade looks at you and smiles. A flash back to the moment it all started comes to your mind. It was a lot of work, but you made it. You steal one more glance at you colleagues, pick up the pen, and sign the paper.

Hi guys! For the past 2 weeks we have been learning about the confederation that united Canada in order to answer our driving question;  How and why did Canada develop as a Nation? On top of that we got the opportunity to recreate the confederation and make our own decisions about whether or not we would sign. We were divided into groups and given a colony. My colony was Canada East along with Malaika, Asha, Kaia, and Julia. Before the final conference where we decided whether or not to sign, there were 2 others that we attended. The Charlottetown conference, and the Quebec conference were the 2 before the signing in London.

What did we do?

Before we could sign for confederation we had to learn about the conditions that other colonies had and lay some down of our own. To do this we spent around a week researching the conditions back in 1867 and finding out what the other colonies had that could benefit us. Then at the first conference in Charlottetown we laid out our proposals:

Canada East supports the railroad because we believe that it is a great opportunity for trade, improving economy and strengthening the relationship between the colonies. We would like the other colonies to consider not having the railway go through America due to the fact that we are worried about attacks.

Canada East would like to suggest Montreal as the capital due to the fact that it is central to all colonies and is easily accessible. We would consider negotiating this if there is a better option.

We would like French to be an official language of Canada because we need more French representation.
We would like to be in charge of the curriculum because with Montreal as the capital, or financial capital, the other colonies would not have to worry about financial problems involving education. In top of the we will be taking input from the colonies of course, and we will not be forcing other colonies to learn French.

This demand is specifically targeted at Canada West as we both have good relation to HBC. We are planning on negotiating land from Ruperts land that we will be giving to the other colonies. This will help with farming, crops, and land expansion.

In Canada East we believe that not all parties running in the election have the right vision for Canada. As such we request that we screen the elections so that parties like this do not end up in power. Of course each colony will have a say in the screening process. We will continue to have active discussions on what idea and ideals will help Canada flourish.

What skills did I use?

In this project I was most proud of the fact that we were using the Green screen as effectivly as possible and that we were interacting with it. This made our commercial look more professional and interesting to watch. On top of that, because we interacted with the Green screen we were able to add in some humour which was something that I personally took pride in.

Evidence– In order to convince the other colonies that they needed Canada East I needed to make sure that I sold them on the idea that Canada East has things that they don’t, and that they need. Once that was established I also had to make sure that the conditions that we laid out were reasonable and something that the colonies could agree to. To do this the use of evidence was key. You see this in our commercial where we lay out the reasons for each of our conditions and why we are doing the other colonies a service.

Create– The hardest part of this project was creating original content that made since historically and could be applied to modern circumstances. I tried to make it so that both a modern audience and a historical audience could watch our commercial and understand our conditions. We were able to do this by planning ahead, creating a screenplay and figuring out what techniques would be most effective with the green screen.

 

What is the final result?

These proposals changed for our final proposals mainly due to the fact that most of the other colonies were English speakers. In the end we had to compromise our proposals because we were the French speaking minority. Luckily for us, almost all of our demands were met and we became one of 2 colonies who ended up signing. Unfortunately though, due to the lack of signatures confederation was not achieved.


In Canada’s history confederation was achieved and played a big role in uniting Canada to what it is today. So, now that we have finished this project, my answer to the driving question is this; Canada developed as a nation because it became a place were people felt that they belonged. Confederation played a big role in strengthening the relationships between the colonies which lead to the discussion of the bigger picture for the future of Canada. Even if  confederation was not achieved I believe that because the topic was brought up and discussed it gave each colony a deeper insight to what they can do for the future of Canada.

In these videos we explain our final proposals;

 

Second version:

https://youtu.be/7Wuwtdbm-iQ