The project we just completed, was all about learning how we could create a meaningful public memory. The driving question for the project was, How can we create a public memory of past wrongs so they are not repeated today? This wasn’t a simple thing…
Recently my class and I went on a field study to learn more in depth, and in a more hands-on way about the Komagata Maru. We visited a Komagata Maru museum, it was in a Sikh temple. Then we stoped for lunch before heading out…
The driving question for this project was, how should we govern ourselves? Trying to answer this question, the political party I was in created this video as our attempt, The video also talks about our party, who we are and what we stand for. Trying…
Two weeks ago I learned more about the Canadian government and how it functions. Learning about this helped me to start building my own view on how I think the government should work and what my political beliefs are, I wrote about some of it…
Welcome back, we start off this school year with a federal election. This year Justin Trudeau called the election after only 2 years since the last election. This year’s election has been similar to the previous election, as we have a liberal minority government again….
Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! It feels like it has been a long time since I have posted, but I’ve just been really busy with our latest project, The Great War Exhibit. The end goal for this project was to present our artifact…
We made it! It is officially winter break, and we have finished our last project of 2020. This will be my second post on it, you can read the first here. The driving question for this project was, How do revolutions transform the world? Now that…
We’re halfway through what we’ve been told is, one of PLP’s favourite project of all time. During this time we have learned about the Industrial Revolution and different writing styles. The driving question for this project was, How do revolutions transform the world? Similar to the…
We have just finished a project called storming the barricades. We learnt about the French and American Revolution, and how Crane Brintons theory can be applied to them. Along with each of these topics, we created a Rube Goldberg machine to represent these ideas using…
Its been a while but we finally completed our first project. In only three days! Our first project of grade 9 was called, Running a Remake. For this project our driving question was, How might we learn video skills by recreating a short film? As…