In this past term we learned about POETRY! Over the course of the project we explored different types of poetry and how to write it. You can read my poems HERE
In this unit I learned more about my worldview and and I learned more about myself!
I found out about other peoples worldviews by listening to their poems
I trained my dog Loki Using Lots of different methods. The first method I used was motivation. Loki is a very food motivated dog and so It was very easy to get him to obey commands using a treat!
The second method I used was positive reinforcement ( associating doing a command with something good like a treat, a toy, high praise, rubs, a walk, etc. ) That was when for example I told him to sit he would know that he would get something good so he would sit.
The third method I used was routine. I would do things over and over until he got used to them.
By the time Loki had been with us for a week he already knew how to sit and lie down.
today Loki knows 14 commands
sit
stay
come
lie down
roll over
Sit nicely
shake a paw
high five
dance
bow
up
hug
shake
fetch
When Loki was a puppy we watched lots of puppy training videos and a creator we really liked was Zac George. We even bought a book of his! (Link to his Web) https://www.dogtrainingrevolution.com
Thank you for reading!
So if you have been following my recent blog posts you will know that I have a dog named Loki and not to be dramatic but I would say that 70% of my life revolves around him. For today’s post I had the option of drawing him and so obviously I took it! Below I will have a photo of him (because he is my muse) and I will also put my drawing!
For the drawing I didn’t trace it but I had a reference photo next to it the whole time so I copied that. I made his nose lighter and his collar darker. I added some dark squiggles on his nose to look like fur textures because I thought I was artsy and jazzed up the photo A little bit!
I really wanted to draw him because he is a big influence on my life and I love him a lot!
Fact One: Labradoodles are hypoallergenic
My dog Loki is hypoallergenic which means that people who are allergic to dogs wont be allergic to him because he doesn’t shed. Since labradoodles are a poodle mix breed Loki got curly poodle fur that doesn’t shed.
Fact Two: Labradoodles get along with other poodle mixes (or at least in my experience)
Through my experiences at dog parks and friendly puppy hellos while on a walk I have found that most poodle mixes get along quite well with other poodles better than most other dogs.
Fact Three: Labradoodles can come in all different colour variations. The most common colour of labradoodles I see is dark brown AKA chocolate. Loki is a cream coloured dog but he was the only white dog in his litter.
Fact Four: Most labradoodles have webbed paws.
Because labradoodles are a lab mix they sometimes get webby paws which is to help them swim better. I personally think that webbed paws are cool because they make Loki look like a frog
Fact Five: Labradoodles are NOT considered to be and official breed of dog
… This is the most upsetting fact ever. Being a labradoodle owner this makes me very upset. It also makes Loki upset because when I told him he started barking like crazy.
Fact Six: There are three main types of fur coat
There is the Fleece coat, the wiry coat and the wool coat. The fleece coat is soft and long. Most labradoodle puppies are born with the Fleece coat. The wiry coat is long and almost looks like hair used with a crimper. The wooly coat is a whole bunch of tight curls which is what Loki has.
Fact Seven: You should get a labradoodle
This is a shocking one but I think you should definitely get a cute soft wiggly labradoodle puppy!
How I Got Loki
Last year my family decided it was the right time for our family to get ourselves a dog. We had been thinking about it for quite some time and when our family friends recommended a dog breeder who’s dogs fit our needs we decided to get a puppy. We named our dog “Loki” after the Norse god because he was mischievous and also he was quite “Low key”.
Bringing Loki Home
Loki’s Breeder lived a ferry-ride away so on a hot August day my family boated over to the island to pick him up. Loki at the time was very small and fluffy. It was very easy to tell him apart from his siblings because he was the only white dog in his whole litter. On the ferry home Loki was very quiet and mostly slept for the whole time
In today’s blog post I will be writing about my experience with the outsiders project. I will be telling you about how I gathered knowledge to make my tableau successful, my journey with movie posters, and how I discovered a deeper understanding of the outsiders novel
Before I get into this post I should explain to you what worldview is. Worldview are the lenses in which we view the world though, it is a person’s individual philosophy that shapes how they think. There are seven main aspects of worldview: geography, time, beliefs, society, values, economy and knowledge. We did some activities in class you get an understanding of what our personal worldview was, and one of the activities was this mind map.
Gathering knowledge
I learned about this book in a number of ways. Not only did I read the book and watch the movie but I participated in weekly book discussions with my group to help me deepen my understanding about the book. In the book chats we would come prepared with questions we had thought of while reading the book and discuss those questions with our groups.
Another way I gained knowledge was by doing weekly drama exercises in my classes to help me enhance my final tableau. (A tableau is a I learned about being at different height levels, how to make facial expressions that coney emotion even with a mask on, and how to exaggerate all of my poses to make sure it is easy to see what is happening.
Movie posters
We started off by creating an individual movie poster to showcase one worldview aspect and some relation to Ponyboy ( a character from the outsiders) My movie poster had me on the front reading a book. It was to show the aspect of knowledge. The connection to ponyboy was that I was reading a book and because Ponyboy was poor and couldn’t afford to travel the way here learned about the world was by reading. It is also funny how my individual poster started with me and a book, similar to my experience with this project, and overtime as i worked with more people it transformed in to something much more than that, a big colourful thing with lots of people.
My individual movie poster
Final group movie poster
Draft group movie poster
Working With My Team
Now I have been writing a lot about how i have been taking in information but the other side of it is how I took all of the information I learned over the corse of this project and shared it with the help of my classmates to the people that came to watch our tableau. My team and I spent many hours at school planning out our positions in the tableu, our facial expressions, what supplies we needed to bring in, building props, putting up backdrops, etc. We wanted to make it a special experience for everyone who came so we could share all of the things we learned with them. 
A Deeper Understanding
In conclusion what the outsiders taught me about worldview is that the gap between the rich and the poor makes it very difficult for the poor to have good experiences and the lower class don’t have very many options. They could either try and fight against society and improve the way they are perceived or the could simply give up and become the way that everyone sees them. In The Outsiders for example everyone sees Ponyboy as a greaser and assumes that because he was born into the lower class that he is a bad person, but when in reality Ponyboy is a very intelligent kind hearted person who risked his life to save children he didn’t even know. I see these things all the time in literature where society is unfair to people because of their wealth, or race and it happens every day which is extremely unfair and makes me so incredibly grateful that I am able to have all of the things that I have today.
So the second half of creating constructing communication was the photograph part. It was inspired by Fred Herzog! I leaned lots of things on this side of the project
We went on a photo walk to the beach and on the way there I took this photo of a sign!
I learned about apps to enhance our photos like Pixelmator and Snapseed and used them to make the photo better.
We did exercises like getting people to take photos of us or playing with silhouettes to learn the ins and outs of photography. We used lighting and effects to play with mood!
OVER THE COUSE OF THIS PROJECT I DISCOVERED THAT I CAN EXPRESS MYSELF USING IMAGES. I CAN USE THE TOOLS I LEARNED TO HELP MYSELF SHOW OTHER PEOPLE WHO I AM AND WHAT MY WORLDVIEW IS!
Hi lovely people of the internet, I see you have found my blog. Good news today’s post is about one of my favourite things… DRAWING! In this post I will be sharing about the maker project we just did.
EMILY CARR!
We started of this project by learning about Emily Carr, the person inspiring this project. She was an artist from Canada who’s artwork was inspired by the indigenous people. She got the most recognition with her landscape portraits. Learned about her art techniques so we would be able to use them in our art.
USING PRESSURE
The first class we did in this unit we played with using patterns and all of the different tools and brushes. Our assignment for that day was to write our names in bubble letters using fun patterns that reflected our personalities!
Inside of the C is a small drawing I did of my family because they are important to me and I thought they should be included. Inside of the A and the I, I did the ocean and some plants because I love nature. Inside of the T i drew my doggy Loki who I love a lot. Inside of the L I drew butterflies for the sole purpose of looking cute. Inside of the other I, I did ice cream because it is the best food in the entire world, and finally inside the N I did some pretty flowers because why not? After I added some black shadows at the bottom and some white shiny stuff at the top and VOILA it was ready to be turned in.
DOODLING
In our second class we started of by jus drawing a whole bunch of circles on our page. WE uses different colours to make them pop out and we practiced using pressure to make them look different 
After that we used our circle knowledge to draw our emoji’s. Our emojis were supposed to reflect our mood that day and that day I was feeling happy so I drew a happy face emoji. Somewhere along the lines I got confused and made my emoji in a sun.
SKETCH NOTES!
We started this class by watching a Ted Talk about how doodling is good for learning, and i created this sketch note on doodling. If you find yourself looking at it and thinking “wow what a lovely bunch of random scribbles” that is completely okay, trust me you are not alone, because this was the very fist sketch note that I have ever created in my life, so of course it is a bit sloppy.
Then we looked at some of the basics of sketch noting.
I made this guide for sketch noting about some of the elements you could incorporate like boarders, fonts, symbols etc.
I also made a symbol library for sketch noting
SHADING AND SHAPES
For this day we practiced shading using this shading guide
We also identified the key shapes in a mug
LOGO!
This was the final day of this unit. We came into class and FaceTimed with Chloe Devine: A graphic designer from New York. We created a KWL chart on what we learned
Then we created our own logos!
This was by far my favourite thing we learned I had so much fun making up a business and a logo for it! I made a Sunscreen brand called solis and i was very proud of the logo that I made for it. I used Keynote and Sketches Pro to make this logo. Below are my planning sheet and my logo
In conclusion I had so much fun doing this project. I think maybe next time I should add more shading to the mug drawings I made. I really loved this project and I would gladly do something similar in the future. Byeeeeee <3
P.S
here are all the things I made that I didn’t feel I needed to showcase in this post but i just wanted to share
For this project the driving question was “how are thematic and mathematical elements used in game design.” For this project I worked with Kira and Gwenyth. Check out their blogs by clicking their names. The name of the board game was called the ring of flames with was supposed to spark your interest about the game.
When we first started brainstorming ideas for our board game we thought we should make a board game called Slug Island about a bunch of slugs stuck on an island, but as we learned more about the board game criteria we decided against slug island.
Here is a mind map I made in the early stages of this project
Obviously these weren’t our formal plans because they are messy and confusing
I teamed up with Kira and Gwen and we worked as a group to create these thoughts
Then it was time to create! I used my artsy skills to write some of the cards and draw the board for the game. Kira and I had lots of fun using the paper cutter to make our cards. Our game pieces were rocks the Kira and I had coloured on and they were very pretty
Here are the final game rules:
Curricular competencies
1. Evaluating: Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of evidence
I think that we didn’t use enough probability in risking the rolls and that we should try to incorporate more math into it nexts time.
2. Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest
My group did a good job of making really good rules and very detailed cards. We were very fast making our game and we played it a couple of times to make sure it works. We had a lot of fun making our game and we divided all the rolls equally so we all had a good time
3. Understanding and solving: Develop, demonstrate, and apply mathematical understanding through play, inquiry, and problem solving
We spent most of our time planning so our game went very smoothly. Gwen and I spent lots of time on the cards making sure we have numerous different outcomes to keep the game fun and exciting
Thinking about the driving question again “How are thematic and mathematical elements used in game design” I think that the most important elements in a board game are the big thing you are working towards for example: In snakes and ladders the object of the the game is to get to the top, and the other thing is that risk and gamble that you have to make in order to win. Thinking about the driving question again “How are thematic and mathematical elements used in game design”
In conclusion I think that there is a lot of thought that goes into board games and a lot of strategy and so when making a board game remember to keep it fun and risky with lots of probability.
P.S I prefer card games
If someone would of told me that within my first two months of grade eight I would be presenting my work in front of all the PLP parents I would have said they were insane. Now here I am almost a week later reflecting on that very thing.
The night of the PLP presentation I was sick so I couldn’t go to it so I am going to reflect on what I learned building up to it
We learned a lot about ourselves using the BLJ
The BLJ aka the Big Life Journal was a series of activities to help us get to know ourselves
Here are my three best works from the BLJ
I made this video animation about some of my strengths as a learned
Click here to see Creative Media
Here is my Memoji Laptop
Here is my word art
And here is some stuff from my user manual
In conclusion what I bring to the PLP learning team is a creative mind that can think outside the box.
