I think that I have done fairly well this year across my PLP courses. I think it is a little bit annoying that my PLP courses aren’t balanced, as I had Science, Maker, and Humanities last semester, and only Humanities this time around. This TPOL is harder to write than the other ones, because the only thing I haven’t reflected on in my MPOL was this semester Humanities. After that, I will reflect on my goals that I set in the MPOL.
In humanities this semester, we did 3 projects. The first one, called Rise Of The Frankenstuffies, was a lot of fun! At the start of the project, we brought in a stuffy and sewed different peoples stuffy parts on our own. This is how my stuffy ended up!
I really enjoyed this project, as it was very creative. Once done that, I made a story spine for my story:
Once upon a time there was a hardened spy, shunned from his home. Everyday, he fought bad guys and put them in jail. But one day, he got word of an evil force gathering in China. Because of that he did more research and learned that there are animals under each Wonder of the World. Because of that, he decided he needed to save them all from Desmond. Because of that, he fought Desmond, but he devoured all of wonders. Until finally, he saved them all and put Desmond to sleep inside Pompéi. And ever since then, he lived happily ever after.
I think that story spine is quite good, although I would have improved on my detail.
The next project we did was called A Case For A Nation. In this project, we made a game about Canada’s history. First, we did our game proposal, which was just what we wanted our game to be about, how we would make it, and what supplies we would need. After that it was onto creating our game! We decided to create a scratch platformer game. A platformer game is just like a Mario game, or something like that. My partner and I worked very hard on coding the game, and it took quite a long time! He focused more on coding the game, while I mostly focused on creating the game instructions, although I did help him quite a bit.
Last but not least project! So for this one, we learned all about Canadas part in WW1, and a whole bunch of the major battles that they fought in. We started by watching this very interesting documentary about how Canada forged their reputation through the war. It was a very interesting documentary, and it is actually a whole series! If you would like to watch it, here’s the link.
In this project there were 3 keystones. Museum notes, contrasting narratives paragraph, and our final exhibit. I think that I did very well in all three of them, especially the paragraph. I added just the right amount of detail, and explained all of my topics very well. This was the Spring Exhbition project, so I also had to have an exhibit! For my exhibit I decided to do fitness during WW1. In my exhibit, you had to try and do as many push-ups as you could with either 30 pounds, 15 pounds, or nothing on your back. I definitely made very challenging, but I think that was good! My reasoning behind that, is that war is very challenging, and so I wanted people to focus on that a lot.
My MPOL goal for this semester was to get mostly rainbows, and I achieved that goal. I think that I could’ve done better on some of the suns, and even rainbows that I got. My goal for next year is to get mostly rainbows again. To achieve this goal, I am going to ask for feedback from many other people, because then I can get different peoples points of view! I hope that my goal to get almost all rainbows will be achieved next year.