Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today I just finished a project called Save Juno Beach. It was about the Canadian impact on WW2 affected the outcome of the war. The final product of this project was an essay, and since I had never written a proper essay before, I was quite worried. Although I do think that I did quite well on it! Most of my work from this project can be found here.
The first thing that we did was watch an expert from Saving Private Ryan, a movie about WW2. The purpose of this was to show how horrible WW2 was, and get it in our minds what we were learning about. We also watched some videos “Condo Videos” in which some people wanted to build condos over Juno beach, which was the beach that Canada invaded in D-Day. To reflect on this, we did an “I think” and an “I feel”. Most of my work from this project can be found here. You can click the link above to take you there.
The next assignment that we did was called PEE practice. PEE stand for Point, Evidence, and Explanation. Our question was “What were the worrying trends that led to WWII?” My answer is in the same link as last time. Next, we did historical significance about WW2. I thought I did well in this, and added good detail. Here it is!
After that, we did our essay brainstorming, which I did not add a lot of detail into. I could have done a lot more, but since I already had an idea of what my essay would be about, I didn’t think I really needed to. This is also accessible by the link. Next, we were really getting into our essay writing! We started with our thesis, and mine got approved first try! “It is important to learn about WW2 because of how much sacrifice went into it, as well as how much it changed our politics and way of life.” That was my thesis.
After that, we did some more essay prep stuff until we finally got started on the essay itself. I thought that I did very well on it, but when I got some peer critique, they pointed out some clear mistakes. I repeated this a few more times, until no one could find any mistakes. Finally, my Mum read the essay in which she fixed a few things, then it was ready to hand in! It is in the same link as last time.
Thanks for reading this blog post, and I hope to post another thing soon! Until next time!