What Can We Learn from Books About Achieving Personal and Professional Success?! My final driving question of this program In the journey toward personal and professional success, books have long served as invaluable guides, offering wisdom, insights, and practical strategies to navigate challenges and seize opportunities. Whether you’re embarking on a new career path, striving […]
Read more "Book Smart"“Your work is not deep enough, you are not synthesizing new ideas” – Few words spoken by glorious Ms Madsen that left me going nuts halfway through this project. Only now can I reflect on this statement and understand what it means. — Throughout the past few weeks, PLP 12 has entered a […]
Read more "On Intolerance and Blubber"Rape. Not a nice word at all. But a situation many men do not really have to fear for in their lives. This project gave me a glimpse of a world where I would worry for my physical safety every day. Welcome to my work on feminism and dystopia told through […]
Read more "A Change In Energy Over Time"“Anticipatory obedience means adapting instinctively, without reflecting, to a new situation” – On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder To follow and to react without consideration for your environment and your actions is the idea of anticipatory obedience is, and is what I believe allows for dictators to take power. PLP 12 has just completed our first […]
Read more "How To Not Be A Dictator"The Vietnam War is one of the most controversial wars in the history of the human kind. Although it was a proxy war between the United States and The Soviet Union, it had far-reaching effects on the world as a whole and as a Canadian, my country would be both directly and indirectly involved in […]
Read more "Colors to die for: The Vietnam War"“Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on 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 growth. Thank you in advance for listening and […]
Read more "mPOL 2023 – Less Is More"“look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” – William Shakespeare — Good morning reader! — Macbeth is one of the many timeless works from Shakespeare. It remains relevant today due to its exploration of ambition, the corruptive forces of power, and the themes of appearance versus reality. Its story is a tragic […]
Read more "Reflections of Deceit: Shakespeare’s Macbeth"Intro: Hey reader! It’s been a while… Welcome to my first blogpost of grade 11! We have recently, finished the first project of this academic year all about nukes, wars and humans who would change the world of science forever; so of course, it’s reflection time! —- Recap & Project Overview: So if you couldn’t […]
Read more "“The Manhattan Project” Project"Good morning and hello, – This is my first post of a soon to be weekend blog grind due to the recent completion of 3 projects to end this grade 10 year. Anyways let’s begin this first post with the end of the most recent project which also happens to be our year end exhibition […]
Read more "Cray Cray Yay Yay, George Grant Mackay!"Hi Mrs Willemse!!!!!!!!!! It is I, Jordan, posting a post to show my extended learning! We have recently finished an analysis on a “text” and honestly, this was the most saddest in class text I have seen. The text we watched was the movie “Schindler’s list” and this is part of our new final exhibition […]
Read more "Crazy Ones of WW2 – Being A Sophisticated Learner!"