In PLP Things are a bit different, and by a bit, I mean a lot. I won’t go into full detail on what PLP is all about in this post, because that isn’t what it’s about. In a nutshell, in PLP we focus on project based learning. We go on lots of field studies, work in groups most of the time, and post on our very own blog, (or as we call it, a learning portfolio). In PLP five out of your eight classes are PLP, meaning that you have the same people in your class most of the time. English, socials, science, math and maker are all PLP classes. French (or Spanish), PE and whatever you choose for your elective are all outside of PLP. English and socials are combined into one class, called humanities. Math and science are also combined into one class, called scimathics. Since the classes are combined, each one takes up two blocks/periods. This is what a grade eight schedule looks like:

Day One

humanities

scimathics

PE

French

Day Two

humanaties

scimathics

elective

maker

Almost everyone’s schedule looks different, but they are all similar. The only thing that changes are the three non PLP classes. In humanities we don’t switch between English and socials every day, we actually focus on one unit at a time in each class. It works the same for scimathics. Sometimes we can tie both science and math (or English and socials) into the same lesson, for example my Minecraft project for scimathics.