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A Story Of Progression

With the current state of the world and the lifestyle we have all felt, I finally have an excuse for that feeling of time passing at strange speeds. On one hand, its ridiculous to think Im headed in to grade 12, my final year at high school, but on the other hand, my god does…

Making The First Move

Over the past week, we have focused more on Macbeth than the 1950s, so for this third and final TWIL post, I will be connecting Macbeth to 1950s related-themes I have discovered myself. We have made a lot of progress in Macbeth, and are approaching the end of the play. This week we have reached…

From Inverness To Berlin

Right from the beginning of our studies on Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the 1950s, the underlying theme of ‘Appearance vs. Reality’ has been abundantly clear in both these topics. Making connections between Macbeth’s thickening plot and the rising global tensions of the 50s seems almost too easy. As of right now, we have completed reading and…

How I’m A Poet And Didn’t Even Know It

To finish off the first term, PLP 11 completed a unit combining Star Wars with poetry, guided by the driving question: How can we use poetry to reflect our perspectives on people, places, issues and beliefs? Our goal for the project was to learn how this question can be answered through learning about the poets…

Drinking The Kool-Aid

Just over four weeks ago, PLP 11 dove in to the topic of tribalism, and it’s implications on our world today. Guided by our driving question: “What is the role of tribalism in society?”, we quickly set to work learning and forming our opinions on the topic. To compliment and extend our learning of tribalism,…

Re: Creating ‘Funny’ Videos

To kick off the year in true PLP fashion, we got right in to making videos. Last year, our focus was finding stories, and creating videos, and for the beginning of this year, we’re enhancing our video production skills by focusing on the details and learning how to up the quality. Our first assignment was…

2016 Was Only Practice

For most, looking back on the year 2016 is disappointing, a year that we wish we could have skipped. Beginning with the death of music legend David Bowie and book-ended with Carrie Fisher, 2016 seemed pretty bad from start to finish. The thing is though, for all we know, 2017 may be just as bad….