For our spring exhibition and finale, PLP 9 made our own comic con (sort of). My opinion on this project was that it felt rushed but also procrastinating is your worst enemy. The start of this project consisted of parting. Specifically that everyone got a feel about Ww1, than we parted into groups and than individually we picked a topic we wanted to create a story about.

I picked to draw about Canadian nurses in the second battle for Ypres. But I couldn’t just instantly do it, we had to research first. I used my source: https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/those-who-served/women-veterans/nursing-sisters

I gathered research and than implanted it into a story board. Every great animated film or comic has used a storyboard before. A story board doesn’t doesnt have to be great and it gives insight of what is actually going to be accomplished in your final copy. 

These are some slides from my story board

My finale copy doesn’t follow these exact slides but it gave me inspiration on how I wanted to present the story and what would entail. It was tedious and long but when making the finale copy it really helped me.

Now for my finale comic copy, (this probably took my like 20 hours):

In the end I liked this project because I got to express a story in my style and it helped my creativity as well as it allowed you to learn a lot about your chosen topic. If I were to do it again I would, only if I had more time though as it stressed me out a lot. I’m happy with my ending copy and I’m glad it’s over as this is the last project I will do. I’m leaving PLP and this was a good note to end off of. 

Bye bye

Welcome to my Tpol,

I’ve learned many many things this year and I’ve grown as a learner but I’ve also grown as a person. A project means nothing if you do not learn or grow from it. From science, to maker and lastly to humanities we’ve finished dozens of projects and with that I’ve learned a lot of things, especially my success behaviors.    

OUR DRIVING QUESTION:

How can you showcase evidence to demonstrate that PLP Success Behaviours have prepared you to advance to the next grade?

The thing I feel I’ve learned the most is accepting the truth. Whether it’s learning or personal everything will pass if you let it. That you will be stronger in the end. 

Three main classes:

Humanities, Maker and Science. All three of these classes have made me the learner I am today and who I will carry with me out of PLP. From the projects to the teachers I enjoyed it, and I do recommend trying out something new. That’s why PLP was so exciting, it was new every time. 

Humanities: The project that stuck with me was our year end spring exhibition project. Comic con. From learning about the aspects of Ww1, to picking specific details on which to reaserch on. It was the finale that was my favourite. We got to make our very own personalized comic. I love drawing and as tedious and long the hours were of tracing, colouring, etc, it became something of mine. I was proud of it. The success behaviour I’ve learned from this is “seeking help”, (agency). 

This is the cover of my comic:

Link to the comic con blog post: https://www.blog44.ca/mikar/2024/06/20/comic-con/

Over this course of year I’ve learned everyone needs help and it takes strength to properly understand that you need it. I got better asking for help clearing things up, extensions and leisure time as other things piled in. Understanding help was the first help, properly reciving it was another. 

Maker: For me the project in maker that I loved was Frankiestuffies. This might have been my all time favourite project in the two years of PLP I’ve done. To start it off we designed our very own characters, creating backstory and dynamic characteristics. There were two main parts that stuck, which was the animation video we created about our stuffy and we actually got to make it. With fabric and sewing and some bleeding fingers I created my own character named Todd. 

This is him. I made up a whole story for his life filled with drama, thrills and mystery. As teachers taught me tips and tricks when creating this animation, I grew progressively. As a learner and as a person. I recived help and feedback and imported it into an amazing finale project:

This is my blog post for this project, it also includes my video creation:

Limb by limb, scene by scene…

Success behaviour from maker: resilience. No matter the challenge I always ended up getting my work done. Always. I am committed to school and I will stay that way. I could get better at managing my outside life with my school life, so no more stress with deadlines but in the end everything was completed. I feel I am strong for that. 

Science: Even though this class was seemed like so long ago (first semester). It was one of the funnest classes I’ve had. I was lucky and got Ms. Kadi in the afternoon. We did many projects and a detail I aprreaciated was that everything was hands on learning. As we played around with batteries and wires, all the way to learning about marine biology, my favourite part was actually probably the class itself. I obviously enjoyed projects like painting our periodic elements and drawing our kelp ecosystem. But the thing I think had most impact on me as a learner was the environment. 

Ms. Kadi was a big inspiration to me. She taught me to appreciate my life and find value in it. The success behaviour I feel I’ve gotten from this experiance is actively engaging in group work, discussions and more. Ms. Kadi helped me feel included even on bad days too and I’ve carried that through the rest of the year. 

One succes behaviour I would love to get better at is enthusiasm. Being a helpful peer in class and a better person in general. As my personal life does affect me I would like to learn not to project it on others either.  be a part of a better environment for other people.

As were ending the year, I am ending my life with PLP. By this time I know my limit and it’s not for me. I’ve had many stresses, fails but that’s what brought the great things that also happened. With the PLP trips, projects and more, I had a good time. All of this work had bettered me as a person and it proves I can make it into grade 10 prepared, but as a person I want a change and through the lessons I’ve learned, I decided. 

This year has taught me a lot, a lot and the future will continue to teach me more, just not with PLP.

Bye bye.