As of February 28th, the filming / editing / everything isn’t nearly completed for the MacBeth WW2 video. We have worked so many hours after school and in school but we still have so much more to go. This project has taught me a lot. I have learned that the biggest of messes of situations […]
David Charles Motley, a WWII tribute.
David Charles Motley was a BC born man who joined the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve at age 19. Motley attended high school for 1 year then dropped out and worked in labour until he volunteered to participate in the war where he eventually died. I chose David Charles Motley because I wanted someone who […]
Being a Bootlegger, was it worth it?
The roaring twenties, more like the rotten twenties. 1920 in Canada started off rough, a fifteen percent unemployment rate, unrest among returning soldiers from the great war and a collapse in the wheat market making farmers suffer. But by the mid twenties things started to look up, demand for Canadian materials increased and employment improved. But behind […]
The Great Seycove Trenches
Time in the trenches was not comfortable living, nor was it easy, enjoyable or remotely happy. But in these rat riddled rotten trenches history was made. Canada took WWI by storm, a new power in a new war, Canadian soldiers fighting for something bigger than them selves, national identity. Canadians became themselves during World War […]
The Accidental Manhattan Project That Happened in Halifax, so the Halifax Project?
Willemse assigned us a project to go along with another other mini project/presentation while she was away, fun times accompanied by more fun times she’d say. The task at hand was to learn about the Halifax Explosion, and then make a news report that conveys the historical events and impact of it. This news broadcast report […]
Sir William Stephenson (aka Canadian James Bond)
I, along with the class was assigned to create a diary entry from the perspective of someone who fought for Canada in WWI. After having no luck finding a soldier with loads of information on the Canadian war memorial website Willemse game us. I decided to do a nifty google search for famous Canadian World War […]
PLP Trip to Pre-Wall America
To start this bright and shining year in PLP we are studying World War I. More specifically the Manhattan project. The ‘Manhattan Project’ is just a fancy and professional sounding name for ‘America creating of the first atomic bombs’ There is much more to the Manhattan Project, though, shrouded in secrecy and lies, this top […]
The Cause of WWI is like a complex web of higshcool friendships.
For the class’s second assigned blog post we had to present our opinions on why World War I happened. You may think that the straightforward question of “Why did World War I happen” has a straightforward answer to go along. But oh it does not. Historians can’t seem to agree on one reason of why […]
Poetic Laurier
Welcome to blog post 1 of the year, I’m sorry it’s late (good way to start the year I know) I have decided to do something out of comfort zone today. Since reading some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (prologue) in Lit12 I have found a love for rhyming scheme stories / poems. I enjoy the sarcastic, […]
The summer conundrum
The summer conundrum Every summer that rolls around I arrive at the same place within my self, where I have to ask my self a question. This question really matters to me and has a major impact on my next three months. I have to decide wether I want to do nothing all summer or […]