Hey guys welcome to my first weekly project blog post. This is a new thing that our class is doing now that we are in the final 3 years of high school. What I will be talking about in these posts is what we have learned and assignments we have done for the project during a week. Let’s dive right in.

So far we have only had 2 days of this project so this will be one of the shorter reflections. We have completed 3 stepping stones and 1 milestone for the building knowledge/launch phase of this project.

On Thursday we watched the first half of a docuseries about Great Canadians. The episode we watched was about Terry Fox, now I was not alive when he went on his amazing marathon of hope but to this day, each year my school does a Terry Fox Run. I have always enjoyed hearing stories or research about him. His story is not only inspiring but quite interesting. The assignment we had was to take notes on what the host says in this episode.

After watching that docuseries we had to write about what we learned that day in class and how we participated. I wrote:

1. I learned new things about Terry Fox and my Class that I didn’t know by watching a documentary about Terry fox and doing the On The Line activity with my class.

2. I contributed by being there on time, paying attention, being respectful to others and their opinion, helping my group come up with a summery of what we are learning from this new project

On Friday we did the first milestone for this project. The need to knows. This is a common milestone at the start of projects. As a class we wrote on sticky notes what we already know about this project, what we need to know or any questions we have, and what are next steps are going to be. After that we had to individually write 3 knows, 2 questions, and 1 next step.

Know:
1. That we are learning how to back up our opinion.
2. We have to choose a Canadian from 1982-onwards
3. Our driving question is “Who Is The Greatest Canadian?”

Need to know:
1. Is the Canadian supposed to have lived during this time or born in this time?
2. Will our episode correlate to our podcast topic?

Next steps:
1. Watch the rest of the greatest Canadian docuseries

For the other half of the class we learned about how to take notes on Canadian history.

I have enjoyed this project so far and can’t wait for the next week.