So, here we go again. It’s that time of year where I stand in front of my teachers and parents and try and make a bridge between the teachers, me and the parents. And this is the one where I tell you why I should be in the program based on what I have done […]

Continuing along our historical timeline, after doing the 1950s ad early 1960s, we are now into the deeper and later part of the 1960s. The last unit that carried into the 1960s was about civil rights. This one does touch on those things but is focused more on the Cold War on the front of […]

How can the actions of an individual change a system? That was the driving question of this unit. I want that to stay in the back of your mind as you read this. For us to answer this question, we were put into groups of two and as a pairing made a question that rides […]

Currently in PLP 11 we are doing the ‘We Shall Overcome” project. That unit is about the civil rights movement, what caused it, and how it has lasting effects today. So far we have looked at things like the murder of Emmet Till, The Montgomery Bus Boycott. We have also started talking about the man […]

It’s that time of year again. The very special time of year. Mid January. Rain is in the air, socks are wet, and it is raining. Fear not, as it is also the time of year for PLP’s famous student lead conferences. Called MPOL’s (Midyear Presentations of Learning.) I am a veteran when it comes […]

These posts should be familiar by now, I talk about the winter exhibition, what the process of building ad brainstorming was, talk about the set up, and then I show the product. I want to change that. I want to show what we did before I give any context, as if you, the reader, are […]

For my second creative creation post I wanted to make something different, but I’ll get to that in a minute. First, let’s talk about the question I chose. In the play Crucible the main plot point are the witch trials. Everybody thinks they know how to spot a witch, because we all know, all witches […]

We are currently reading The Crucible. The Crucible is a play written by playwright Arthur Miller in 1953. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-63. The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on January 22, 1953. We are reading […]

So this unit was introduced to as ‘The Manhattan Project… Project,’ that is not only due to Mr. Hughes’ strange but lovable sense of humor but also the fact that we were doing a project, about somebody else’s project. To go with these projects we went on a field school as well, you can read […]