Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today we are taking a look back at our latest project, “change my mind, adversaries to allies”. As you may have guessed through the title the projects whole goal was to change minds. Who’s mind I had to change was up to me. The whole idea was […]
Category: Humanities
Hide Your Fires
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today we are going to be reflecting on our most recent PLP project, Hide Your Fires. Based around Shakespeare’s Macbeth or the Scottish play, this project combined our adaptation skills and our film making expertise to create an adaptation of Macbeth set in the 1950’s. This Cold […]
The Manhattan Project, Project?
As our most recent humanities 11/12 project comes to an end it is time to reflect on my growth as a learner as I progressed through this project. This project was based around three cornerstone ideas, historical Significance, conceptual art and the Manhattan project. These three ideas came together to create the Manhattan project, project. […]
Hiroshima: The Subversion of the American Worldview
Hiroshima by John Hersey is a unique literary masterpiece that single-handedly subverted the American public opinion on the godlike power of the atom. Hersey’s book documents six people’s tales on their survival of the atomic bomb and their life after. Due to Hersey’s approach of telling the reader the raw accounts of Japanese people who […]
Think You can do Better
“How should we govern ourselves?” Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. The question posed above is the driving question for the project we as a PLP 11/12 class just finished. You the reader and I the author are going to be revisiting this driving question and the entire project built of the foundation […]
The Election
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today in our first post back in grade 11 we are looking at the question “how is the Canadian government structured and elected?” This was all started by the recalling of an early federal election by our current leader, Justin Trudeau. Through a chain of events this […]
The 50’s
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today we are doing another weekly reflection post. The title above, “The 50’s” is very broad and non specific topic. In this post I want to talk about how one lesson sort of shifted my idea of Canada in the 50’s. Generally the international community sees or […]
The Script!
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today we are doing another weekly blog post. This week has been the beginning of the end. That may have sounded a bit dramatic but this week we have started the final phase of the project, the play. This live action audio play is going to be […]
WW2!
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today we are switching it up from our weekly blog posts and doing the final reflective post for the World War 2 podcast project. This, like the greatest Canadian was a project based around making a podcast episode. The difference between the greatest Canadian and this project […]
WW1
Hi and welcome back to my blog. Today we are going to be talking the final humanities project of grade nine, ww1 and its effects on Canadians and the world as a whole. Let’s talk about the driving question of this project. The driving question is “How can exploring stories and text help us understand […]