By Sabrina

Category Humanities

Cat and Maus

How can multi-modal communication enhance our ability to humanize and understand complex issues? This project we learned all about the Holocaust through many different ways and eventually created a product about a certain Upstander. This project taught me quite a… Continue Reading →

T-POL 2024

How can you showcase evidence to demonstrate that PLP Success Behaviours have prepared you to advance to the next grade? T-POL  “Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am… Continue Reading →

How has fear been used as a political, defensive, and cultural tool to shape our society?

The Cold War, what is it exactly? That is what I learned in this super cool and epic project. Before, I knew generally what the Cold War was, however, I didn’t really know many of the specific events that happened… Continue Reading →

Who Cares, Why Bother?

Politics, the one subject you don’t ask strangers about. Before this project, I didn’t know anything about the structure of the Canadian government and had little interest in the Canadian  government as a whole. I believe that this government change… Continue Reading →

How can we use a formal debate to convince an audience we’re right?

Introduction: This project made me really think about what it takes to be a good debater. I’ve always loved watching debates online no matter the topic. If it’s a good debate or argument, it will make me rethink a part… Continue Reading →

How did the development of the atomic bomb change the world?

Introduction: This post will be more short since this project has stolen all my energy and currently I’m still creating the book while writing this blog post. I think that I have a much rounder and circler understanding of the… Continue Reading →

Text to a grade 8

  How can we use the power of written text to inspire the new PLP 8 learners? Introduction: How does one formulate a sentence? That is a good question which I attempted to answer during this project. In this project… Continue Reading →

Lies and Incongruencies

How can art and text reflect both the history and our current place in time? Introduction: This humanities project was centred on learning about the relation between Canada and it’s history with Indigenous people. The final result of this project… Continue Reading →

Save Juno Beach!

Why is it so important to preserve the Juno Beach Centre? Introduction: What defines something as historical significant and how do events in the past effect us today? That was one of the many question we had to answer in… Continue Reading →

Romeo, Romeo Are We Still Talking About Romeo and Juliet

How has William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet remained relevant to contemporary storytelling? Introduction: Romeo and Juliet project help me increase my critical thinking skills and my analysis skills. Before this project I had little knowledge of the story of Romeo… Continue Reading →

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