I couldn’t believe what I had just heard. Were those words seriously just said? The image of corpses and children piled on top of each other, flashed in my mind. I had walked into the steam room and coughed from the dense air. “Hey, it’s like you’re in WWII,” one of my friends said. “What?” […]
The Pacific Perspective – Shared But Not Equal
Pacific Perspectives was the name of our most recent learning journey in PLP. In this project, we directed themes of seeing around corners, collective identity, and change. The culmination of our learning, was a documentary that was an answer to the driving question: “Why are some people able to see around corners in ways others […]
Femenism and The Concept of The Caged Paradigm
This past project was based around the topic of feminism yet I can’t continue to write without bringing up another point. In society today, making someone think a different way about something is like trying to convince a wall to do the tango. As I learned in the project on the seven habits, everyone has […]
Spring Exhibition – Growing a new approach to learning
It is not often that I feel ecstatic about a project as it is being introduced yet in this one, our last project of our grade eleven year, I did something meaningful, driven by an initial care that carried me through. I keep thinking the same thing. “That was incredible!” It is what continues to […]
Tpol: Growing Like a Cedar, Blooming Like Spirea
Expectation: Ever since my brother entered his grade 11 year (which seems like an eternity ago), I had heard and felt the warnings of the grade 11year. It was “the year that mattered” “the year that defined you”. It was “the hard year”. Now imagine grade 8 me, sitting in quarantine, thinking about what I […]
Stories of hope – Holding On To The Right Handle
I can confidently say that this was the most difficult, most mentally gruelling, most grit-inducing, anger-producing, mind-bruising, and confidence-losing project that I have ever done and… I can’t be more proud of it. My task for this second to the final project of my second to last year in high school was to discover the […]
What Makes a Story of Hope?
“What is a story of hope?” Was the question I was tasked to answer in this reflection. There are often many ways to answer an open ended question like this, and although I believed that the definition for a story of hope was an interpretation of one’s own personal opinion, I have come to the […]
When All That Is True Is The Moment And You
When I entered the doors on my first day of high school, I would have never thought that this would be a place where I would navigate my way through the world. I mean, I knew I wanted to achieve great things but there was never the thought that the tangled web of past and […]
MPOL: A New Approach To High Expectations
This year started as a continuation of the last. Not in the same “I’m done let me sleep” feeling as I exited the school doors, but the same personal expectation of high-standard, meaningful work that guided some incredible accomplishment and discovery. In my TPOL last year I had said that the learning I completed in […]
A New Relationship With Time and Literature – “Macbeth”
As I noted in my Manhattan project blog post, I believe everyone is connected. And I don’t mean in the Airy fairy, “I feel the pain of the person 5000 miles away from me”, kind of way. I mean the connection that defines what it means to be human. It’s what defines our identity and […]