“I kicked the habit/Shed my skin/This is the new stuff/I go dancing in” -Peter Gabriel, Sledgehammer Think back to when you were younger. You’ve probably grown a lot since then. Which is why in grade 10, we have a new class: Personal Growth Plan, which illustrates how we have grown and how we can grow in the future. For our very first project in PGP, we read Atomic Habits by James Clear, and answered the…
Planes landing, Gander International Airport, September 11, 2001 The world is a scary place. Less than 8% of people live in a full democracy, authoritarianism and fascism are gaining popularity in powerful countries, the climate is changing, World War III looms, and America faces a hard decision: elect a far right criminal or elect a woman. It’s a tough one to be sure. But we have it pretty good in Canada, with a full democracy,…
Success Behaviours Self-Assessment Mr./Ms. (teacher’s name), this is my mother/father Mike/Ang. Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve…
“When every man is torn apart/With nightmares and with dreams/Will no one lay the laurel wreath/When silence drowns the screams”-Epitaph, King Crimson Hi everybody! In our most recent Humanities project, we made a comic book about WWI. Let me tell you about it. To begin the project, we watched documentaries and the movie 1917, which was very good. To introduce us to the idea of a WWI comic, we read “The War to End all…
Continue reading Jeux Sans Frontières (Games Without Frontiers)
“Why, why do we suffer each race to believe That no race has been grander”- Genesis, Time Table Hello. Most recently in Humanities we learned about the cause and consequences of nationalism and how it was a contributing factor to WWI. I chose to focus on British nationalism and examine how it contributed to WWI. To learn about nationalism, I came up with a series of questions: -Who were the major players in spreading British…
Continue reading And Who’ll Deny it’s What the Fighting’s all About
It’s that time of year again: mPol time. “Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.”…
Are you engaged in medieval warfare? Are you sieging a castle but you just can’t knock those darn walls down? Well, have I got the program for you! It’s called Destination Imagination! DI is a worldwide event in which unsuspecting children compete to see which group can come up with the most innovative solution. Every year, there are a few challenges to choose from: engineering, fine arts, technical, and science. This year, I chose engineering,…
“Well, that’s all the time we had for our movie. We hope you found it entertaining, whimsical and yet relevant, with an underlying revisionist conceit that belied the films emotional attachments to the subject matter.” “I just hoped you didn’t think it sucked.”-Wayne’s World Animal experimentation. Mutation. Mutilation. Murder. A room full of bodies hanging from the rafters. Movies. What do these horrible things have in common? This may shock you, but PLP does all…
Louis Riel, The Canadian Encyclopedia, by George F.G. Stanley, April 22, 2013 “Come on you target for faraway laughter/Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine”-Pink Floyd, 1975, Shine on You Crazy Diamond Hi! For our final semester 1 project in Humanities, we learned about Louis Riel. In this short 3 week project, we had the opportunity to create a multi paragraph response to the driving question: “How have portrayals of Louis Riel…
“Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream/Wave upon wave of demented avengers /March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream”-Pink Floyd, 1977, Sheep Ideas are what drive human progress. But what happens when people start to question the ways of life that they have been accustomed to? This is what we learned about in Humanities: revolutions! According to Crane Brinton in “Anatomy of a Revolution,” a revolution has four distinct stages.…