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Winter Exhibition 2024

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Welcome to my blog in 2025. New year new me. Or should I say new year new blog post. How great. Anther one. Anyways, I’m pretty sure this is my first post on a winter exhibition. Let’s get into it.

Driving question

For this project the driving question for this project was:

What factors precipitate ‘revolution’ and how have they shaped the modern world?

Animal Farm

Our last humanities project was on a book called Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a book released in 1945 about a bunch of farm animals who go against their farmer to create a society where they can be “equal” and “free”. If you want a full summary you can probably just search it up. We had to read the entire book. It was a super boring book and I had to summarize some chapters I didn’t understand. Anyways, I’m pretty sure that’s the book that started us on learning about revolutions.

Animal Farm Infographic

After we finished reading Animal Farm (while taking notes along the way) and we did our first assignment in relate to the book, an infographic. If you don’t know what an infographic is, that sucks for you. Just kidding. An infographic is a visual representation of information or data. I didn’t do a very good first one, so I had to revise it. Here is my finished infographic:

The French Revolution

Mr Harris assigned 5-6 people per- group, together. Once we sat down in our groups, surprise surprise. We got assigned revolutions. I was in a group with Eloise, Liann, Elsa, Samuel and Evelyn. We got assigned the French Revolution. If I haven’t already mentioned, this whole thing is for the Winter Exhibition. I think the teachers did a draw and chose the gr 9’s to do revolutions or something. Idk how this will help us in the future but whatever, it’s already done.

So for my group, the first assignment on the French Revolution was another infographic. What we had to do was research everything about the revolution and put it in infographic form. Here is mine:

   

After we made our personal infographic, we had to make a group one. So the group one took ideas from different personal infographics. I know a paragraph of mine was used somewhere. We also all used ideas for the layout and design. Here it is:

If you dont know what the French Revolution is here is a little summary:

The French Revolution was from 1789-1799.The revolution began with the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, as a response to King Louis XVI’s mismanagement of the economy and disregard for the Third Estate. The National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, enshrining the principles of liberty and equality. Radical Jacobins led by Maximilien Robespierre, seized power and killed King Louis XVI, leading to the Reign of Terror. A guy named Napoleon Bonaparte eventually rose to power. This marked the end of the French Revolution and a beginning of the Napoleonic Empire. The French Revolution, impacted so many people and the society. This shaped modern democracy, politics, and society today.

The Metaphor Machine (Rube Goldberg Machine)

For our main Winter Exhibition piece, we had to make a Rube Goldberg machine from scratch. We started off with a wood sheet. We painted it and got to work. In each revolutions there is at least 10 important parts. So we had to find 10 different parts of the French Revolution and make it able so that a marble can run, and things can move. We had a month to make and have this machine ready to present.

First things first we had to plan it out. This is our draft of what it would look like:

Here is our machine coming together. It’s so funny looking back on it.

We had to plan and gather all the materials we were to be using. For Exhibition day, we brought in some food. Evelyn made cookies that looked like the French flag and I brought in 2 big packs of chocolate croissants. Surprisingly all the food was gone by the end of the night. A guy named Cole Webb decided to eat half of a pack😒.

The night of exhibition went really well. It worked 75% of the time and all was well.

Conclusion:

I had some fun but I don’t look forward to the next exhibition. I mean at least I learned something from this project that I will probably remember. Looks like sleep is calling, we’ll talk later.

Xoxo 💋

Take Your Kid To Work Day- police officer 🚔

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Why hello there. We got asked to do ANOTHER blog post so here we go.

So take your kid to work day is a thing that almost all gr 9 students (and only grade 9’s) participate in each year. You go to work with your mom, dad, uncle, auntie, grandma and so on. But you only chose 1 for the day.

So of course, PLP being different then what the other grade 9’s do, we had to document the entire thing and make a video on iMovie. So anyways, we had to answer a driving question, How does experiencing a workday shape our view of career choices? Which I’ll be answering at the end of this post.

So I went over to the police detachment with my dad for the day. I was meant to wake up at 5, but I guess my alarm didn’t go off, so I literally had 15 minutes to get ready. Work started at 6 and ended at 6.

So we had to make a video on iMovie. We were supposed to interview someone and ask a couple questions like do you enjoy your job, would you recommend it and so on. Unfortunately, weren’t allowed to film inside the police detachment, but I did get my dad to take a couple photos. If you’re wondering, Carmyn, why didn’t you just film outside? Well most of the police officers were either undercover (face cant be shown + posted on social media), or just simply didn’t want to be on YouTube. So I decided, why not just get ready with me while I tell you about my TYKTWD experience. So here it is:

 

To answer the driving question (how does experiencing a workday shape our view of career choices?), I think it shapes our view of career by opening our view to the world and living a day in the life of what the job you have a curiosity about. Obviously 1 day doesn’t show you everything they do in this world but its good to see even if it’s just a day. Who knows, maybe that’ll be your job until you’re old 🤷‍♀️

 

Anyways, have a good rest of your day:)

Xoxo, Carmyn 💋

The Wilderness Must Be Explored!- last blog post of PLP 8

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Thankfully, this is my last blog post. I wish we could make videos instead of writing. Like a GRWM and we tell you guys all about how school is. Maybe I’ll do that sometime. Anyways, today I’ll be telling you about our driving question, our PLP 8 trip to the Oregon Coast, my thoughts, and core competencies for the spring exhibition of 2024!

Before I get started, I just wanted to say that if I compared my feelings about this exhibition, to the winter one, this just felt like a little presentation for friends and family. I was also wayyyy chiller than the winter one.

Oregon Coast.

I want to start off with the best. Not the best for last. Even though I don’t really have a best in any of my posts. Maybe this’ll be a first. Anyways, about a week or 2 ago, my PLP 8 class and I took a feild trip down to the Oregon coast BC. I was very lucky to have my grandparents pay for me, even though my entire family thought this was a cool opertunity for me to step out of my comfort zone, as well as learning new things in a whole different environment and country.

I don’t got a clue on how the heck I should start this. Hmmmmmm. Okay, so in PLP, every class goes on a field trip. PLP 8 goes to Oregon. So that’s what we did. This was a very very cool experience for me. Last time I went across the U.S border was not recent. I thought this trip was super fun because I’ve never been away from my family for a week before. I got a little bit homesick but I was with all my friends and they’re almost like family too. We got to visit so many cool places. Here is a book we had to make and document every day in.

I would love to go back to Oregon.

Now, time for the boring stuff, classroom work. We had a driving question, How Does Language Inspire Adventure.

I think language inspires adventure because if someone speaks the same language as you, they could talk you into taking an adventure somewhere. Ooooor, if you wanna learn a new language, you can go to the country that speaks that language and learn it from there. But that’s just my thoughts.

About a week we came back from Oregon, we had to do a Spring Exhibition. PLP 8 had to make ads for Oregon and why people should go there. Im going to try to make this short because I kinda just woke up and need to get ready for school soon otherwise our engineering teacher will mark me absent. So I was in a group with Brooklyn, Oliver, Emilia, Sawyer and Robin. I think we all did a good job communicating with each other and letting each other know how we feel with a certain idea that someone had. We could’ve made much more improvement if we had more time.

Core Competencies That Were Involved.

I think for this overall project we had to accept feedback, contribute, be helpful, be respectful of your classmates and their ideas, and be a reliable team member. One big competency is communication. If you don’t communicate with your group or teacher, you wont get anywhere.

thank you so much for getting to the end of my zesty ahhhhh blog post. I might update you guys in the summer! Only 2 days of school left to go!

 

My TPol

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Intro:

Welcome to my presentation of learning. I am the expert of 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 improvement. Thank you in advance for listening and offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

Main Focuses:

In agency I chose to tell you about “resilience”

In preparation I chose to talk about “outside of school”

And in communication I chose “with peers”

For resilience, I know I definitely give up easily and become discouraged when someone gives me a setback. Most of the time I try to finish what I started, but I do give up sometimes.

Last MPol I was talking about how I wanted to be more organized and manage my time better. I think I definitely improved on that. It’s just taking a lot of time. Thats why for preparation, I chose to talk about outside of school.

Lastly, with peers. I engage when Im in a group and come up with ideas. I will accept feedback, but sometimes I wont change what I already have and forget about what feedback they gave.

Destination Imagination (DI)

A couple months ago we got put into groups for something called Destination Imagination. We were in groups of 5. We had to present something that had art in it. We decided to make a colosseum. It wasn’t massive. It was just a little fold out that we could all crouch behind. It was kinda like a drama presentation. Here are my teammates blogs:

Julia

Robin

Ian

Samuel

I think DI made me more comfortable with preforming. The hard part about this was remembering my lines. One of my group members had no clue what theirs were and I relied on them to know mine. I also had to learn them in 2 days while I was in Whistler. That was very stressful. On top of that, I was very sick and could barely speak.

 

Science:

My favourite experiment so far was definitely the Petri Dishes. We collected bacteria from surface areas with Q Tips,wiped them on the Petri Dishes and let the Petri Dishes cook over the weekend. We came back on Monday and took a look at our bacteria. Personally, I chose to swab my iPad and phone. In the end they both had ALOT of bacteria. I learned that I should definitely use a Lysol wipe and wipe my screens more. I would definitely do this project again.

However, our most recent work in science has been on vaccines. After learning a whole buttload about vaccines, we had to make a poster on vaccines and the myths around them. For example, here’s mine. I chose to do it on how the Covid vaccine doesn’t cause autism.

One last thing we did in science was learn about the cells in our immune system. These were the white blood cells, B cells, T cells and macrophage. We also learned about what they’re fighting off, the pathogens.

After learning all that, we had to make little immune system cells. I did mine on Paw Patrol.

Humanities:

As you already know, we took a long drive down the Oregon coast. This is PLP 8 classes first field trip (field study) that we’ve had. The field trip was a week long. Most of my friends have gone to Keats Camp for a week during the summer. But I’ve never done that before. So this was my first time being away from home for a week. One of my worries was not being able to contact my family if something goes wrong. Every couple days, I’d call or text my mom and tell her what we did that day and all that good stuff. I was glad we were able to stay at the hotel first because you realized what you didn’t download on the way there and could do that before bed. I wish we stayed longer at the hotel because I looooved who I shared a room with. I also really liked taking a trip to the ice machine. The ice machine reminded me of Gemma and I’s midnight runs to the ice machines. Those are good memories.

About a week after we came back from Oregon, we had a Spring Exhibition. We were put in groups before we left to Oregon. I was in a group with Brooklyn, Sawyer, Emilia, Robin and Oliver. I think we did pretty well for the time that we had to make it in. We did something like beer pong. You got 3 tries to get the ping pong ball in the cups. If you did you get a 2 Bite Brownie or a cake pop that Emilia made. I think we should’ve found something that drew more people to our ads. Most of the people went straight to the food. But I guess I would rather food over looking at ads.

 

Conclusion:

Im very happy that grade 8 is almost over. I think one thing I could do next year is check Showbie more often. Next year, Im looking forward to foods and to do more in science. 

Thank you for listening to my TPol of 2024.

 

What Were The Consequences Of Colonization??

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Welcome backkkkk. Today we’re talking about my group project that we did and had to answer the driving question (title).

First up, I thought I should mention craft. Craft is an amazing note taking note taking app. It’s also for very many other things like organizing your day, writing rough drafts of report cards, all of that. I would recommend it and give it a 9/10. It’s not a 10/10 because the AI stopped working (maybe I was using it too much) and I’d have to pay some big bucks to get it back. Getting back on track, we had to take notes about documents we’d read so then we could use those notes later on to make a…… *drumroll*…. Presentation *crowd falls silent*. Yep. We were to present this in front of the gr 11’s who study the First Nations people and their colonization.

Next, me, Gemma and Cece (my group) had to use Keynote to make the actual presentation with all the notes we took. We did diseases. We did have to do more research because in class we didn’t talk about diseases very much. I’d say we had about a week until presenting. So that was good.

Presentation day.

During the day we were presenting, I was really not feeling it. But we had to present it 2 times. After that I was really glad it was over with.

You’ve reached the end! Have a nice rest of your day🤍

mPOL ☝️🤓✨

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Hello. This is my mom and dad, Kristina and Lauren and I think Jared’s here too.

Introduction:

Thank you for coming to my mPOL. I am the expert of my own learning. I am also responsible for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We can discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and offering feedback that I could use to improve as a learner.

One thing that I’ve seen that my classmates do that id like to improve on is not leaving work till the last minute. I try to get it done before it’s due but sometimes I’ll hand it in like 5 or 10 minutes after it’s due. I’d also like to work on organization. Im not an organized person. Things doesn’t really help me so sometimes I just write a checklist of everything that I need to get done and that works better.

An example question that we had the option to answer is “did all the work you completed this year meet your standards?”. I’d say no. Some of my work was rushed and I had to redo it. Some of my work was in a group but some people take over. All that kinda stuff. The work that I’m most proud of are my window notes that we did in humanities with Ms Willemse. I think it was good for me to do because you got to relate to stuff that happens and I’m very good at relating. Here are my window notes:

There we go.

Humanities
In humanities I liked writing poems and reading The Outsiders. I like the language arts part of it. Socials on the other hand… is not my favourite. Learning about the world, places in the world, the past is kinda confusing and hard to understand. I think over time I’ll start to like it.

The Learning Plan that we did a while ago

I dont really remember when we did this but we did. It’s a learning plan. One thing we did was set goals and see if they were accomplished by the end of the year. My goals were to complete my work on time or even hand assignments in early and work on my time management.

 

Work Habits

So… as I was saying earlier im not the most organized person and that I have to work on that. I was also saying about how I use a checklist and check off the work I finished. I like to work really hard, get stuff done, then take a 10 min break and get back to work after that.

The Basics

Revision… So whenever Im bored, looking through Showbie and see a revision emoji, I’ll redo it. But normally my grades get lost in my emails. When I redo it I see what I did wrong and change up some things.

Teamwork…  I like working in groups but sometimes that can be hard. There is always 1 or 2 people controlling the group so sometimes people in the group get left out. I like getting in there and helping, but once in a while I will let other people do more of the work.

Responsibility… Im not very responsible. I get most of my work in on time but then sometimes I just forget.

Thank you for your time. Any questions??

Radical Innovations or How It’s Going (aka The Winter Exhibition ❄️)

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Welcome back to another post! We had lots of projects and a big lead up to the winter exhibition. Stress, late nights, hard work and some tears (mine had nothing to do with the exhibition 😂). Continue reading to find out the details 😉.

The Renaissance Artwork

Like before, we had to chose a photo from a time and photoshop your face into it. To photoshop our faces into the photo we used an app called SuperimposeX. This was kinda the conclusion of another art chart we did. I think I could’ve put in more effort and made it better.

Renaissance Paragraph

A bit after the art chart (above) we had to write a paragraph. The thing is that we didn’t have a whole lot of time to do it. I dont think I would change anything. If I had to change something I’d probably put more thought into it. More thought can’t hurt👍.

Witches

One day when we got into class, we had to share a sentence about witches, witchcraft and witch hunts in the Middle Ages. My story is, I think I came to class on time that day. So I sat down, for Ms Willemse’s question of the day it was to read our witch hunt sentence. I didn’t know that we had to do it ahead of time! The day before in class we were reading a whole bunch of stuff about witch hunts and all that. I was probably zoned out and didn’t process it. So I scribbled some words down and hoped it was good enough. Here it is.

The 2023 Winter Exhibition ❄️

This year, im in grade 8 so it was our first winter exhibition. If you’re wondering what an exhibition is, it’s where all the students in PLP present what they have been working on to their family, friends and the public!! The PLP 8 got split up into 5 groups. We had to present 3 tableaus. In a tableau there are 3 pictures. The pictures could be of anything, it’s normally based on the same thing. Recently we’ve been doing assignments and reading about the medieval times, renaissance and contemporary (today). So we had to make a tableau on that. Except instead of photos and drawings, it was us!!! The teachers were talk in about how everyone is running around and it’s stressful. From my experience, it wasn’t stressful and not many people were running around (just the teachers). I wasn’t worried about it in the first place but if you have one coming up, it seriously isn’t worth all the stress. If you help and make sure YOU are happy and calm, it will go well.

                    .                      ⬆️King Joseph⬆️

Medieval Tableau👑⚔️

The first part of our tableau was medieval times. Our very first part of this is the planning. We planned with a drawing. We drew out who’s going to play each part. After the drawing was finished we could start getting our costumes together, props and a script if your the one talking and explaining in a scene. Another thing is that we had to include 7? or 5? aspects of worldview 😒; knowledge, economy, beliefs, values, time and geography. For knowledge we made the king/ King Joseph (aka me) a map because we rely on maps whenever we’re travelling. Back then they didn’t have google maps, I think google maps is better because if your coming back from somewhere and don’t want to get caught in traffic, just pull up google maps and you can see. For economy the I/ King Joseph was wearing “expensive” fabrics. King Joseph was holding a cross to represent beliefs. Obviously King Joseph represented values because the country relied in the king to make the decisions. For time we made a sundial. Lastly, geography we had a horse (Julia).

Renaissance Tableau✝️

Like the last, we still had to include 7 or 5 aspects of worldview. For geography we had the horse, we reused it from the medieval scene. For time we switched out the sundial for a clock. It was a new and exciting invention. King Joseph came back in because he is the bomb, but mostly to to show values (again) and what also showed values was the food wagon because you had to work for food and people valued it very much. The wagon was pulled by the horse. For belifes King Jospeh was still holding his cross BUT we also introduced the bible that was held by a Christian. The wagon also showed economy because wealthier people were able to believe in more things. And finally we showed a painter because painters had to have a very creative and know a lot about the land and knowledge in general.

Contemporary Tableau📱🗳️

As you probably know, contemporary is what we’re living in today. Again we had to use the 7 or 5 worldview things. Within out scene there is electronic voting booth. Inside the booth we have a computer. The computer is used to make your vote. As you probably already know, in Canada we use a ballot box to vote for our leader. Our design for the voting booth is meant to be one that can evolve in the future. It is displayed to show society because these days we have the opportunity to choose our leaders. In the Medieval and Renaissance times they didn’t have the opportunity to do so. The voting booth also shows values becasue back then women weren’t allowed to vote, it is a privilege today that everyone over the age of 18 has the right to vote. Back in the medieval and renaissance times, the government ran on monarchy. A monarch is a form of government that has a single person known as a monarch at its head. Nowadays we have a from of government called democracy, which allows the nation to vote for who they believe is the best leader.

The Snack

For the exhibition, we had to have a snack for the audience after they finish watching all our tableau’s. We were very lucky to have Julias mom make around 100 cookies!! They were SO good and looked like snowballs so I told the audience to take a snowball on the way out!

Conclusion

We hadn’t done very many big projects like this, so I will say that this was a very successful one. We had SO MANY assignments, readings, props, etc. that led up to an amazing exhibition.

Thanks for reading to the end of this post, its a long one😂😭💀.

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It Project!

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Have you ever wondered how many steps are in a project? How many assignments you have to get done to reach the end? I sure have. For Humanities we had to do our first project with lots of projects  along the way. At the end of the project, we had to answer the driving question, how can a text help me understand how my worldview is changing. You can see my answer to this if you continue reading. 

 Reading The Outsiders:

S.E Hinton wrote The Outsiders when she was in hight school. It was such an amazing book to read with lots of action. We had to take notes along the way so were prepared if we have any assignments we have time do on it. While we were reading the book, we had to answer something called “Role Sheets”. Role sheets are just sheets that you answer. Sometimes you have to draw something that you could relate to, or you might just be writing a whole bunch of words. Yes, words. Sometimes the questions for me were hard to answer and took a lot of thought. Most of the time it wasn’t fun. Anyways, you get put in these groups, where you’ll share your role sheet with. The groups normally have 2-3 other people and you will do a different sheet every week but there are only 3 in total.

Music Video:

Making The Lyrics.

Up above you read about how we had groups that we discussed our role sheets with. Well surprise surprise, I was with the same group this entire project. Yup, a lot of time with the same people. They were great to work with and kept me on task lots of the time. We got lots of work done as a group. Anyways, back to about the lyrics. Everyone in the group had to write lyrics for the same song, Its The End Of The World As We Know It by R.E.M. My group and I decided that my lyrics went smoother with the original song and just were the best in general. My group members had to change a couple of words because apparently they didn’t make sense.

Singing The Song.

It probably took us 5 times to sing the song as goos as we could do it before getting it right. The lyrics were hard to read and sing really fast because if you listen to the song here you can see that it gets a bit faster throughout it. Our voices are all different. My voice was probably the highest (I don’t know if that’s a good thing). Sorry, that doesn’t really have anything to do with this, but I guess you can hear me in it 😁. I think the recording ended out being pretty good. I had a couple of moments but its all good 👍.

Making The Music Video.

We have 2 music videos. One that we could post on YouTube and one that has a whole bunch of pictures of us and our friends that we don’t want all over YouTube. I did lots of the work on the second video but then another member of the group took out all the photos of us for it to be posted on YouTube. Here is the video:

 

Worldview MindNode.

This a project that we did closer to the start of this all. We wrote this to help us understand our own worldviews. There were 7 sections we had to write about and how they relate to our own worldview. I did this really last minute so it isn’t the best I could’ve done. Here it is:

Thanks:

Thank you for reading to the end of my post! Have an amazing rest of your day🫶.