I’m Indecisive, I think?!

Hello everybody!!

“Her phone ringtone echoed through the house for the third time in the past three minutes. She knew she shouldn’t, but she picked up the phone and answered the call.” 

Do you like thrillers? If you do, you’ll love the ones we just made! Our most recent project was making a short 2 minute thriller!

 First, we watched some thriller clips for some inspiration and learned more about how films were made. The most important thing we learned was the 3 C’s and how they are the most important parts of a thriller. The 3 C’s are the clock, the contract and the crucible. The clock is the addition of time pressure, the contract is a promise to be delivered by the end of the film and the crucible is a box that contains your character. 

Once we had learned these things, we started to create our own thriller! We was our group of 4 members, Maddie, Evelyn, Me and Melissa. Our story was: one day the main character Cecile starts to get anonymous phone calls. She keeps picking up, there’s only noise like static or heavy breathing on the other end, so she hangs up and goes back to reading her book. Now she’s concerned. When she here’s a crash upstairs she goes to investigate. She doesn’t know what to do. Who is upstairs, and who is on the other end of the phone??

I was on a vacation in Mexico for the filming, but I got to do the editing! It was a really fun project, and process to make the thriller. So, without further ado our thriller: Not Alone!

Thanks for reading and watching! Don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel!

-Ailie 💜

That day I woke up at noon, I needed to leave soon. A lake named after a loon. A spork is a fork and a spoon. I’m running out of oon words. Anyway, Hi! Recently we went on a surprise PLP trip to a place called loon lake! It’s a wonderful facility with a huge lake in the middle and amazing food. Our sleeping quarters were in the student centre with the boys and girls on either sides of the gym. 

As always we had a driving question and learning objectives. The driving question was: How do the choices we make set our future path? During the time we were at loon lake we did multiple different activities. Some physical, like the high and low ropes corses, rock climbing, archery etc. As well as some metal, like our workshops with pinnacle pursuits, a company who helped organize our trip, and its representative Johno. During all of those activities we focused on processing, analyzing and decision-making. Like how on high ropes we had to work with our partners, if we were going on the high wobbly bridge, to get across together!

I learned so much about my classmates, while having so much fun!! One of the activities we did was trust falls. We worked our way up from doing trust falls with a group in a circle, to doing trust falls with a partner getting farther and farther away, and finally doing trust falls into a group of 8 people from standing on a chair on a table! Everyone always caught each other, and if we didn’t already, we learned to trust each other. Another activity was the talent show, where you got to show the class a talent of your choice. The final activity was the funky dance party! It was so fun singing and dancing with flashy multicoloured lights and light up glasses!

My goal/take away from that trip was, we all bonded together as a group! As that bond is now strong, my goal is to uphold and strengthen it as we grow together through high school. Bye for now! Up next, flags will be flying, cannons will be shot, and PLP will be absolute mayhem!

-Ailie 💜

Hello hello!!

Speech language pathologist! Say that 5 times fast! That’s my aunt’s job, a speech language pathologist. So, for take your kid to work day I went to one of the schools my Auntie Ruth works at. I feel like I learned that I would like to be some sort of a teacher for work, and speech pathology is pretty fun, but I would probably like to be just a regular teacher. Now, that’s not my aunt’s fault, and I have nothing against, and wasn’t turned against speech pathology.

Let me explain the process of how the day went. There was a kid in kindergarten on the autism spectrum who we made instructional videos for, for things like washing your hands, to make things easier for him to understand. Then we had a speech therapy session with a girl who was learning how to pronounce her sh, s and z. The things my aunt does to help her pronounce the sounds are really cool! She helped show the girl what shapes she had to make with her mouth to say the sounds. After lunch we worked with one more girl who my aunt just met. She needed help with pronouncing her r’s.

I learned that with the children, if they get help with their pronunciations then they learn pretty quickly how to speak them properly. Speech language pathologists are pretty important, because their job can help little kids speak freely, and properly and be better understood. Now I know that in the future, when I hopefully become a teacher, I can apply some of the lessons and learning from my aunt’s speech pathology strategies to help make learning fun for my students! My aunt is also very resilient and patient, so I hope to learn to be like that.

The really cool thing is that I was using Canva to make my video. Our video was an assignment that all of us in PLP 9 were assigned to make to showcase our experience, and interview someone. When we were editing the instruction videos for the kindergarten student, I realized that I could utilize Canva to edit the videos more efficiently and add things to make them easier to understand. So I did just that! My aunt and the kindergarten teacher were very happy with the videos. Technically, I did work at work!!

Here’s my video:

So now I know about speech pathology! Hopefully now you do too!!

-Ailie 💜

P.S. I also want to be an Uber driver!

 

Hi everyone!!

Have you ever been running through a forest, with the feeling that you’re being followed??? Well I was followed through the forest by a creepy person dressed in black…. In a short film! Don’t worry!!

In Maker for the past few weeks we had to recreate a video called “Run”. It was quite the process but we did it! This project was a group project! My group members were Syd, Caelum, Kai, and Sebastian. We went into this project with some knowledge about camera angles. That knowledge we took, and literally ran with!! Throughout the whole process of making the video we made different plans, tried new filming techniques and just plainly had a lot of fun!

We made our first draft like it was going to be our final draft, but then our class watched all of the videos and submitted critique, so that we could improve them. Here is my group’s first draft:

 

A few things were done to improve our video and make a final draft. The first thing we did was film most of the shots again, then Caelum did most of the editing and it was perfect!

Here’s the final product:

And of course no video comes without its mishaps and dance breaks! Here are the bloopers!:

Thanks so much for reading my blog post! And remember, if you think someone’s following you, just run!! Bye!!

 

-Ailie 💜 

Have you ever lived in a society based off of the Middle Ages?? No?! Really? Well I did for four days in class!

Our class was called Nation X and we were put into 4 different groups.

Group A the peasants, whose task was to write a 100 word letter every day for 1 dollar.

Group B the merchants, that was my group! I ran the shop for all of the groups with Mika. Our daily task other than running the shop was writing a 50 word letter about our day! Since it was a monarchy and the king read the letters, we had to make them king positive.

Group C the knights/nobility had a lot of freedom. They ran the jail, and they didn’t have to have a lot of reason to arrest someone.

Group D the clergy/monarchy were the most important class. They were a small group, and had one king who was in charge of everything.

We got to read the news every day to let us know what was happening. The king paid us our daily wage. Since I ran the shop with Mika we got paid a dollar more wage a day.

In the end the king was overthrown. Diseases were spread, resulting in health care being made. We created a council of one person from each group. A military was created in threat of war from other nations. Weapons were made by groups A and B. Our nation was ready for war. It was a fair democracy. We were all doing pretty great, except for the fact that I’m still dying of disease. I never got a cure, so am I going to die??

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog!

“The world reveals it’s self to those who travel on foot.”- Werner Herzog. If you read my maker post you’ll know that we had a grade 9 PLP field study already, and that we did a lot of walking! If you haven’t already read my maker post here’s a link to it. https://www.blog44.ca/ailieh/2023/10/12/173/. In that post I talked about the maker aspect of our Alberta Field study, and how we made videos to tell a story. 

In humanities, our question was, how is the geography of the west shaped who we are today? How did we answer this? Another one of our field study books! If you haven’t read another one of my posts: We were Ore-gone for a while but now we’re back, then here it is. https://www.blog44.ca/ailieh/2023/06/09/112/. It explains what we did last year on our grade 8 field study in Oregon, and it also has the book that we did last year embedded in it!

The most important thing we learned about on this trip, was the five themes of geography. Location, Place, Geography Human environmental interaction and Movement. Our job in Alberta, was to find examples of each of these elements. We made comic life’s depicting these elements! Mine is included in my book.

This time our book was made up of, after choosing photos from each place, answering the same three questions for each place. What is geography through one or more of the Five Themes of Geography? What is the historical significance of this photo? Your own connection to the photo?

I enjoyed all of the places, but if I had to pick my favourite it would have to be the Sulfure Mountain hike, and the view from the top! Here’s what we saw when we were up there.

I really enjoyed the format of this book and had a lot of fun gathering this information by the experiences I had! My book took quite a lot of editing, but the end product I’m very happy with! I had a cartoon character that I used in my Oregon book and I made an older version of it for this book.

So here it is:

 Thanks for reading, hope you like my book!

-Ailie 💜

Hi

Welcome back to my blog people! 

Filming, filming filming and more filming. The camera, always on. Icloud storage, disappeared. The filming was endless.

Our PLP 9 class went on our annual field study! This time we went to Alberta. The focus was 4 different videos. Our projects driving question for maker was how do we use the image to tell a story? After going on this awesome trip, and making the videos, I now have an answer to this question. The moving image, aka video provokes emotions. What we do or say in the video, our acting or our actions can tell a story.

So here we go! The first video that we did, and probably my favourite video is the silent video. We had to come up with a storyline, and choose what buildings, or where we wanted to film it within three valley gap.

 Our group went with a murder mystery. Our storyline started once upon a time there was a murderer who terrorized a small town. Then it builds from there and gets more dramatic and to be honest just more fun. I had a really great group made up of, Finn, Nate, Maddie, and myself. We quite enjoyed filming and really getting into our characters. I’ll include the video for you guys to watch. And of course every film always has its mishaps, so I’ll also include our absolutely hilarious, blooper reel. For this video, I learned that I love working in a group more than ever, iMovie is very easy to work with and configure, and never to trust your wife, because she might be the murderer!

My silent film:

My silent film bloopers:

The next video is our TikTok inspired video. We could do this in groups or by ourselves. This one was just for fun. I did mine with Neko, and we decided to do the clap trend throughout the places we went in the Rockies. It’s also sort of a fit check from each day. I’ll include it below! From this video, I learned that there are so many places with absolutely stunning views in the Rockies, how to make a YouTube short, and that Neko always has really good outfits, but I already knew that!

My TikTok video:

The next video is the at home video. This was a video that we did before we went to Alberta. The question for that video was what inspires me? Well you’ll see if you watch it! My friends and family are really impactful in what inspires me! I learned that I love using slow motion, that my cat doesn’t love me and I love throwing my work out the window!

Here is my at home video:

What inspires me!

The final video that we did was our investigative video. For this video we had to make a thesis statement, we had to do interviews, and put it all together into one video, cohesively, and sort of make it like a story. This one was probably the toughest video for me, but it was also quite fun, walking up to strangers, and interviewing them it gave me insight on what people thought about my thesis. 

The questions I asked for my interview were, where are you from? What part of Canada do you consider the west? What do you think makes the west of Canada different from the rest of Canada? and how do you think the west has shaped your identity? My thesis was, Canada is a big country made up of different provinces. British Columbia and Alberta, also known as the west, are unique from the rest of Canada, due to their mountainous geography. The Canadian Pacific Railway was built despite the challenging terrain, reflecting the identity of those who still live here.

Here is my investigative video:

Do you know the song “Ain’t no mountain high enough.” By Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell? I do! And I also know that the mountains in Alberta were definitely high enough, or at least the ones we hiked up! Though sore muscles, broken buses and crashing into trees on a ropes course, Alberta was so fun!!

Thank you so much for reading my blog post!

– Ailie 💜

Hi again people!!!

So we’re doing our tPOLs, which are the same as our mPOLs, they are just for the transition into grade 9! So here’s mine:

 

Thanks so much for reading! tPOLs, like mPOLs are an important part of PLP!

-Ailie 💜

Hello!

I’m back to post again! This time we had the spring exhibition, and the project surrounding it! It was an amazing exhibition. Our class was much more organized than we had been last time. We didn’t get a lot of days to plan, but we managed it! Our plan at the beginning was to rely heavily on the all providing dollar store. In the end we executed our plan and it actually worked.

All of grade 8 was stationed in the gym. Each of our Oregon groups were given a table. Our group, Kam Meng was stationed in a good spot. We arranged our table and put out the materials. Then we set out our food and drink. We used 7up and called it bamboo extract, we also put out fortune cookies, and cookies decorated with icing.
Here is our draft of what we wanted it to look like:

We basically executed the draft exactly!

The whole project that we featured in this exhibition was the reason we went to Oregon! But first let’s go back to before we went to Oregon. We started off our whole project for the exhibition by defining media: a way to communicate, mostly through technological means, regarded collectively. Evolving from that we defined other things to do with media for example the consumer: They are a big group of people who could be part of the target audience, or not, who have purchased a product. They consume products, in our case, products from companies.

Then we continued with the knowledge of what media is, to learn about the different types of it, specifically advertisements. We did many smaller activities to extend our knowledge about advertising.

Now that we knew all about advertising, we were introduced to our project. First we were assigned a group of about 7 people, my group was Mika Aidan Esther  Izzy Matteo and Seb! Then we were assigned a business in Oregon, and ours was Kam Meng, an American style Chinese restaurant. We planned for the interview, and then we executed it in Oregon to one of the workers. Then we gathered that info from the interview to execute our own ad for our business. We used the info to brainstorm, and then made numerous drafts. In the end we made a final draft! I am so proud of my final draft.

Here it is:

One more thing before I go, we made a journal, called a launch journal going through the steps of what we did for the project.

LAUNCH Portfolio

The spring exhibition went so well!

Thanks for reading my blog post!!

-Ailie 💜

Hello again!!

In this post, I’m going to be telling you about one of PLP‘s main features, one of the funnest parts, and my favourite part. The most recent thing we did with PLP was go on something called a field study. I feel the study is basically a multi day field trip. They are lots of fun and lots of info! This field study, we went to Oregon. Here’s what we did and why we went to Oregon in the first place.

In PLP, there’s a reason why we go on a super awesome trip to another country. This time it was for an advertising project called the medium is the message! This project is a humanities project, focusing on advertising. First in groups, we were assigned a business. All of those businesses were the ones we were going to visit in Oregon. Each day when we visited these businesses assigned to whatever business we were at interviewed them. My group was Kam Meng, an American style, Chinese restaurant.

First day of our Oregon trip, we drove a whole lot. All the way across the border and a few more hours. After a quick stop at Cabelas, our first business and our first food stop was Clark’s restaurant. Then we drove some more, stopped at Dismal Nitch and continued on to our second business group at Astoria Column. Then we had dinner and visited Peter Iredale. And continued onto our cabins where we stayed for the next two days.

The second day we had breakfast and went to the Columbia River. Then we went to Fort Stevens and had our first quest. After lunch at Dairy Queen, we went zip lining at Highlife Adventures where our third group interviewed that business. Then we had dinner and went to bed.

Day three we had breakfast and drove to the Columbia River Maritime Museum, where we checked out the cool displays. Fourth interview group interviewed the museum. Then we drove and had lunch at Pig and Pancake, which was really delicious. Then we went to Cannon Beach and enjoyed the wonderful view. Then one of my favourite stops, the Tillamook Creamery where we learned about how they made cheese and even got to sample it. Then we went back for dinner and a good sleep.

 

On day four we had breakfast and went to arguably one of the coolest natural places I have ever been. Yeah quit now head at least that’s what it sounded like it was spelled Yaquina Head. The fifth group interviewed the people at a lighthouse there. And we went off on our second quest. Then we went to Hatfield Marine Science Center where we would go the next morning as well. And the sixth group interviewed the interviewees. Then we had dinner at a very good buffet.

Day five: by now we were staying at the yurts which were a very fun communal place to stay. We went back to Hatfield Marine Science Center. Yesterday we did an experiment on how fast crabs can run, today we’re doing two experiments. The first experiment was finding shrimp on a mud beach, and recording the number of them, their age, sex etc. The second experiment was building an R.O.V. And getting it to pick up magnetic objects underwater. Then we had lunch and went to a marine discovery tour, where our seventh group interviewed the organization. Then we had our third quest. Then we had dinner at my interview groups’ business Kam Meng, where we interviewed our business.

Next Day 6, we had breakfast and headed to Depoe Bay. Then we drove and our teachers had prepared a surprise for us. We went to BULLWINKLES which is an arcade, pizza place, and theme park! Then we drove for another while where we had dinner at Burger Claim, a burger place with peanut butter burgers! It’s our last night, so we stayed at a hotel! We swam in the pool before bed and then went to sleep.

Our last day we drove to a place called Wolf Haven, which is a sanctuary for wolves and our last interview group. Then we drove to Golden Corral Buffet to have lunch. Then it was the home stretch. I was in the van, because we had the van and the bus! I absolutely loved van shenanigans! We drove for a lot of hours to finally get home!

It was so much fun, and I learned so much!

Here’s my journal about our travels:

Thank you so much for reading my blog post!
– Ailie 💜