The media played an enormous role during the Civil Rights Movement. Before the outside world could get a glimpse of the violence occurring in the Deep South, racism was at an all time high. Police brutality and Klan murders were an often occurrence against coloured…
For my second reflective blog post, I have created a discussion video. The topic I have chose to reflect on today is “Should advocating ‘white supremacy’ be permitted in a free society? Does banning the expression of this ideology conflict with freedom of speech?”. I…
For the first of my three blog posts reflections, Zakaria and I have decided to create a rap battle between Eugine (Bull) Connor and Martin Luther King. To create this rap battle both of us had to get into the mindset of our characters. I…
As part of my planning online course, I was given a job shadow project. The objective of this project was to shadow a career we are interested in for one day. The career I decided to shadow was programming. I went to Industrial Allience to…
Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Willemse, this is my mom Sonia. Thanks for coming out to my conference. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. Today I will be leading this conference and have prepared…
A piece of work that demonstrates my growth mindset has been the Destination Imagination challenges. In case you do not know what a growth mindset is, it is the mindset that one can learn from failures and mistakes. Without a growth mindset, I am positive…
The amount of growth in the quality I produce my school work in the past year and a half have been substantial. My writing in particular has improved greatly. At the beginning of the school year, my writing ability was much weaker than it is…
In the past seven months of school, I have completed many pices of work that I am very proud of. One assignment that I am most fond of this term has been my Australlian Gold a Rush Explain Everything. I completed this Explain Everything after…
Okay. It seems that it is finally time to dust off the cobwebs on this blog and write another post. Today we will be looking at voting in Canada, and how it went from a privilege for some to a right for everyone… over 18…
The Force. A power that can be acquired through years and years of hard training. Jedi’s in modern day have been training this power for years with only the most pressing Jedi’s mastering it. Except for me… This year our teachers decided for us…