For the last six weeks, The PLP 9 Humanities class has been working on a project about nationalism. In this project, I learned about nationalism, the founding of Canada, and much more. So, without further ado, here is the post.
To kick off this project, I don’t know what we did, because I wasn’t there. But, on the first day I was there for this project, we started the current events presentations, which are daily presentations from students to small groups explaining in depth one current event. My current event took place on the last day we had them, so I had lots of time to prepare it. Here is mine:
We each had about five minutes to present our current event, and I easily filled mine. I am quite proud of how well the conversation flowed, and think I picked a good topic.
In the middle of this project, we went to loon lake, and dint work much on this project. But, the next thing I did was pick my topic from this list:
As you probably know from the title, I chose Lord Selkirk and the Battle of the Seven Oaks. Then, after that, I had to research my topic
On the next day, we found our groups of others that chose the same topic. The final product of this project is an instagram post that takes and teaches others about historical perspectives. The instagram post consists of three images and one 50-100 word caption. Here is my caption:
Lord Selkirk was a powerful historical figure who was present in the Battle of the Seven Oaks, which was fought between the Hudsons Bay Company (or HBC) which Selkirk recently inherited, and their rival, the Northwest Company (NWC). This war took place on the 19th of June in 1816, caused by the escalating tensions of the two companies, and lord Selkirk pushing it over with his new attempt to establish a colony at red river. The Métis didn’t like the prospect of the new colony threatening their ways, so after negotiations failed, the battle started
And here are my three images:
Then the last and final piece of work was an piece about my opinion on this topic:
And that concludes this project. This was an awesome project and I learned a ton about historical perspectives and public speaking.
Thanks for reading my post. See you in the next one (Hopefully).