A few weeks ago in humanities we started a unit called this changes everything. It was about how advancements in technology create tension. So of course, we did, not one, but two projets with this unit.

Before the project

Of course, before we did our project(s), we needed some background knowledge. We learned about multiple things and people. First we learned about the red Fs of feudalism, fealty, fief and faith. When we learned about the three Fs of feaudalism, we were put into groups, and made a keynote (slideshow) about it. Once we were done that, we learned about how “back in the day”👴🏼 If you thought differently from everyone else, or if you were creative, you were considered an outcast.

During the first project

In order to be sorted into the groups that we would be in for the next two projects, we made a list of our top three topics that we wanted to focus on. Next class we were sorted into our groups, I was in a group with Tamara, Sofia and Emily. Our group was focusing on weapons. The first project was to make a book about your topic. Obviously weapons would be too big of a topic to cover in about 8 pages, so we had to narrow our focus, and make a question to answer throughout the hole book. Our question that we made was “how has the evolution of portable gear and weapons affected law enforcement?”. All of us got two pages to write about our question in a certain time period. Sofia worked on the Middle Ages, I worked on the renaissance, Tamara worked on the technical revolution, and Emily worked on modern day. We each chose 2-3 weapons to research/write about that we thought had made an impact on people’s lives.

Drafting the notebook

Our first draft looked like four different books put together. I think that was mostly because we couldn’t come to an agreement on if we would have our text on top of, or beside our photos. Eventually we came to an agreement that our pages that were specifically about our time era would be text beside photos, and all of the other pages would be text on top of photos. Overall our first draft was a bit of a mess. It got a lot better after we got feedback on it though. It started to look like an actual book, nit just a bunch of random pages SLAPPED together. We were continuously working on the book, making small changes along the way, so we didn’t have to do as much work all at once.

The Sales Pitch

The second part of this project was to make a sales pitch. Basically, we had to come up with a revolutionary invention in the field we were studying. My group invented a weapon, the transportation group made a new way to transport people/things etc. My group decided to essentially make a bomb that would shut off the electricity in the area it was set off. Our invention is basically an EMP that lasts longer, and has a wider range. We also “designed” small attachments that you could clip onto any device, to ensure that it would not be affected by the   C4-E Alpha (our invention).

Presenting

Originally we were going to present outpr final draft of our sales pitch to people from Apple, and people from the school board. Then we (the teachers) realized that it would take too long, and it just wouldn’t work. So instead of that, we were at a table with some other people talking about different aspects of PLP. Not everyone was able to come, because it was during a different class. Most people from band didn’t go because we had cabaret the next day (which was fun by the way). I wouldn’t know much about what happened because I wasn’t there presenting. This was because I was in band, and (like I mentioned before) I couldn’t go. No one in my group ended up going, because Emily Tamara and I were in band, and Sofia wasn’t there the day we signed up. This meant that after all of our hard work, we weren’t able to present our final draft to anyone other than our class. I don’t think that any of us minded that much though, so that was good.