June 22

Spring Torture…

I’m. Back and not better than ever. You see, the spring exhibition just happened and so many things went wrong! Buttttt to keep my brain off of that ill just explain the non bad parts

First, the grade 9s assigned us spots to work in and last minute I was assigned to be in the entrance greeters with Landon and Colton to hand out pamphlets and gummy cups while on my break i went around to other groups and places to see what was going on and it was really fun. The first room had LAUNCH which is how all of PLPs projects work. The second room was the loon lake room, they were doing a tableaux on an experience at loon lake (battle archery) they handed out watered down Gatorade too to show people how bad the juice was. The third room was the tech room, they were handing out app cookies and explaining their projects. The last grade 8-9 area was the conclusion where they gave out skittles and led people into the gym where the grade 10-12s were handing out snacks and showing off their projects.
More about my group, the underwhelming entrance crew!! The front greeters were me, Colton, and Landon. We just stood there telling people where to go and what to do while also offering gummies. The people would go through 2 other skits after us and the first one was just a normal boring class with bored and aggravated kids. One of them held a sign saying something like “I wish there was a way to make education more exciting…” then the next skit was a documentary playing with kids excited and surprised with a textbook in the trash.
(If youre confused take a more confusing map:)
So it went something like that yeah^ after about 2 hours of torture it was finally over. The juice in the loon lake room made someone threw up and most people didn’t have any snacks left but other than that nothing went terribly wrong and we cleaned up and went home 🙂

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June 21

Beavers Were Made Into What??

LOOK AT THIS
Now that I have your attention, I just finished my final project for the year in humanities. The project was about the fur trade in New France and how it impacted the ecosystem and the indigenous people living there. I learnt a lot in this project, I went from not knowing what and where New France was to where it was and how it was involved with everything at the time.
My favourite part of this project was the social experiment game, for the game you’d be split into 4 different groups which were 2 indigenous groups and 2 European groups. We (1 of the 2 indigenous groups) were told to trade with the Europeans with out “beaver pelts”. In the end my group somehow won because we had a lot of the European things and none of the pelts left.
After the simulation was done we went on with the normal classes, making ads and stuff for the final project.
overall It was a fun project and I learnt a lot about Canada’s history, I’d give the unit like a 7/10  if I was rating it.
until next time, goodbye!
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June 20

Tpol time!

Welcome to my tPOL! Today i’ll be reflecting on my whole grade 8 year and answering the driving question, “Why do you feel like you are ready to advance it the next grade level?” 

Overall this year i’ve grown a lot, I’ve met new people and tried new things and here’s my proof
in our first project, medium is the message, I grew a lot in a social aspect since we had to reach out to businesses and talk to them about making an ad for them and also just meet our group members since it was our first project together. A few other projects I grew from socially were Destination imagination and The Outsiders because we had to present to other people (mostly adults/parents)
even though most of the growth from PLP has come from humanities, i’ve also had a few moments in other classes where I realized how much i’ve grown over the year. For example in maker in the Herzog and Carr project, more specifically the herzog part, I grew in my skill with photography and image editing. Another example is in scimatics in the Laser Laws project. I learnt about how light works and I learnt a lot overall in that project.

back to the driving question since that hasn’t been answered yet. I feel like im ready to advance to the next grade because I’ve learnt a lot from this year, I’ve grown as a person and as a student in many ways. Even though I don’t agree with how much homework is given out, its taught me that I need to actually be responsible and do it (which overtime has also incorporated itself into working in groups.) PLP has improved my work ethic since elementary never really gave out homework and the work was definitely easier. So to fully answer the question, yes, I do feel like I’m ready to move on because I’ve noticed and acknowledged my growth as a learner.

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