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Girl Power

After the longest ten weeks of my life, that’s a wrap! The first quarter of this crazy school year is complete, and that means that so is the first half of PLP 12. Somehow, I made it out and am alive to tell the tale, so here goes. As you would know if you frequent…

Wickstone’s Weekly Work – #1

Aside from the posts I normally write on here to cap off a project, over the next few weeks I will be posting what I learned throughout each week in a summative post on the weekend. I will be doing this in an effort to open up a bit more, and to see how I’m…

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,…

The Purpose Of A Story: Reflection

I have recently completed a piece of work that I wouldn’t have expected to be assigned in PLP, though I am happy it was. As you may know, for the past couple months Humanities has been revolving the driving question “How do authors use text to teach us more about ourselves?”. The final assignment of…