Hello everybody. Welcome. Another project done, another blog. This project was about WWII, and Canada’s involvement in it. I got really excited when I first heard that we were gonna do this project. WWII was one of the biggest conflicts in human history ever, and there was so much that happened in the war. Not many people know this, but a lot of good things came out of this war. There were lots of brutal and inhuman things that were done to people. Canada played a pretty big role in WWII, helping supply the front lines and fighting in battles, and there are things that we still use today that were invented by Canadians during the Second World War.
This project’s driving question is “Why is it important to learn about Canada’s involvement in WWII?” We started off the project off learning about some basic informations about WWII. Things like which major countries were in the Allied power and which ones were on the Axis power, the rise of fascism, and the things leading up to the war. With the knowledge of the previous war in mind, WWI, we saw how the consequences of that war caused the Second World War to start. I think one of the biggest causes of WWII is the Great Depression. This was a period of time after the First World War where the global economy was at an all time low. Everything just came crashing down. This set the pathway for fascists to rise to power in Europe, where the depression hit the hardest. Since the economy was down, people were starving, suffering to the point where they would be glad to have anyone fix it for them. That’s exactly what Nazis and Mussolini did. Though their methods of doing so were questionable, at this point, people really didn’t care anymore. They just wanted things to be ok again.
All these building blocks we learnt, I knew most of it. To show our learning, it was to be shown through kahoots. A total of six of them. To have it approved, all we needed to do was to get every single question right. We could practice though, of course, so that made it almost a guaranteed pass. There was two of the kahoots where I thought I did, but apparently I didn’t, so I hand to do it again. It wasn’t much of a hassle though.
In the next couple of weeks, we just had a few little lessons and assignments here and there. There wasn’t much really, but all of that was building up to the final product of this project which I was just so excited about: an essayyy. Yayyy. I’m not a good writer, so essays really scare me. I was kinda hoping we would do something a little cooler than an essay for the final product, like, Idk, building something. Maybe next project. I haven’t wrote an essay or some form of one in a long time, so it was a good chance to practice my writing.
Anyways, back to the part of building the essay. The first part of it was to brainstorm a bunch of different ideas we could write about. Our essays had to answer the driving question. I came up with a good amount of topics that I could write about. Ultimately, I had to choose one, so I just decided on the one that I thought would be the easiest to write about, which was Canada’s advancements made by WWII. That was my original idea, but then I thought why not just mash ideas together, so that’s what I did. My essay was now on Canada’s role and contribution to WWII, so that included my previous idea, plus some other ones.
When my brainstorming was done, I moved on to writing my thesis. I got this done really quick, mostly because I eavesdropped on some of the conversations and feedbacks the teacher were giving to other people. I used that to build my thesis, and after having the teacher look at it and give me some more feedback, I was able to finish it right as the bell went.
The next and kinda final thing we needed to do before writing the essay was to make an outline of it. This is where I fell behind. I don’t really know what happened, but I was just procrastinating a lot. I had a whole weekend to work on this as well, but being the wise man I am, I didn’t work on it at all :). After some time, I was finally able to get a Really rough and simple outline for my essay. I mean, all there was were three points I wanted to write about. Each of the points were like the paragraphs, and they didn’t have much detail to them at all. But hey, at least I got it done and was ready to move on to the essay.
Annnnnnd not. Well, not The essay. A draft of it. So it’s basically the essay, but not The essay. My plan for it was to copy and paste the outline that I did and just add on to the individual points and lastly, make a conclusion paragraph. That’s what I did, but instead of finishing it by the end of the week, it look a week. The same thing happened here as it did with the outline. A lot of procrastination, maybe even doing no work whatsoever for the one class, and not doing any of it over the weekend. Ok it was a little better than the outline. I did work on it a little over the weekend, but not a lot, not enough. I had to grind the hell out of it to finish it.
When the draft is done, we had to have someone else read it and give feedback. I gave mine to my friend and after I acquired the feedback I needed, it was time to take a break. The next day, I persisted on with one goal in mind: to use the given feedback and finish the essay one and for all, and when I do, all of it will be over. After doing some research to expand my understandings of some inventions Canada made in WWII, I added more details to that paragraph, and that was it. There was more little revisions to do but that was the big thing. I was done. I was free. Free from the scary presence of The essay.
Even though I didn’t really like the final product, I still like the overall project. I learned about how important Canada’s involvement in WWII was. It’s important to learn about it because Canada has made significant contributions to the war. Canada was a big supplier of food and materials. Since we are located so far away from the battlegrounds, we could manufacture resources and train soldiers easier. Canadian troops fought with bravery, and their sacrifices should not be forgotten.