History is universally accepted among people as the study of the past. However the past consists of everything that’s ever happened to anyone, anywhere, so why do we learn about specific people and events in school and not others? Well the simple answer to this…
Third term in PLP has been extremely hectic, yet enjoyable and rewarding in the same sense. So far this school year we’ve looked at the Manhattan Project, WWI, The Depression, WWII, and other texts such as Three Day Road and Macbeth. However, after coming back…
In class Ms. Willemse put up concept charts all around the room and for ten minutes at the end of everyday she encouraged us to add a few ideas. At first I didn’t know why we were doing it, but then she later revealed that…
On August 6th, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb, Little Boy, over the Japanese city of Hiroshima: “The sky over Hiroshima became illuminated with a flash brighter and more powerful than the sun.” The explosion levelled 90% of the…