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🏎️ How can we use Storytelling to Investigate What Sparked Global Exploration and Understand its Impact?

 🤔 What is Exploration? 💭

Imagine eating a big plate of pasta with lots of tomato sauce and cheese sprinkled on top. Imagine if I told you that if exploration never happened you probably wouldn’t be eating that? Exploration introduced so many new things to the Europeans and the Indigenous peoples. Sounds like a win win right?! No, not at all. The Europeans brought things such as guns and knifes and kettals that made life easier for the Indigenous people, but they also brought sicknesses like smallpox which nearly wiped out all of the indigenous population. The Europeans got things such as beaver furs which they shipped back to Europe to make hats. They used something called imperialism.

Imperialism means a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means. It connects to colonization because it allows for the Europeans to colonize other peoples land.

Rose, Bud, Thorn Reflection

For the end of DI we had to do a reflection on what went well, what we could improve on, and what went badly. It was a way to reflect on something that had many bad and difficult things and good things that we can celebrate.

Rose 🌹

For the rose, we did a good job of the props and the detail and time that we put into it. We painted it with lots of care and we out most of our work into it. One other main thing that we did a good job at was making the costumes. The hand that fell off was also a pretty good touch but we can definitely work on it. The last main thing that we did a good job at was the moving element, which I made using Mr Harris’ fan. The appraisers complemented it and thought it was very good.

Bud 🌱

For the thing that we can learn from and grow from would be being prepared and ready long before the competition. We were rushing to get things done and half our group didn’t know their lines, or didn’t care enough to care about learning them, so I think we can work on being prepared and having more drive to win something in the provincials.

Thorn 🥀

Something that made me frustrated and that can be changed was our lines and the script because it was slow and most of our group either didn’t know their lines, or didn’t care about it at all. Someone in our group kept on not showing up to work on DI and they constantly broke props and pieces for the set. We can change that for provincials by being more prepared and we have to talk to group members that aren’t doing anything or trying very hard to work towards goals as a team. The props kept on breaking because one of our group members kept on ignoring us and walking around the props clumsily. One of our group members also was supposed to make everyone’s costumes and that was their one job, but they didn’t do it and blamed it on us for not making it. But overall, we need to work together as a group better and try harder to win something at provincials. 

🏎️ How might I write poetry that I enjoy and shows who I am?

This was the driving question for the project “Working With Words” I was really confused, worried, and muddled when I found out what the project was about. We had to write a book full of poems using different poem techniques and using different types of poetry. The poems had to relate to our worldview and they each had to have a theme. It sounds complex, which it was until I figured out how to write a good poem. I wouldn’t exactly call myself a poet, but some of the poems I wrote were actually pretty good. But how did I get here? What did my poems look like? What was the progress of writing them? Allow me to explain.

Simile Poem

This was the first poem that I wrote in this project. It was probably one of the easiest because I just compared my worldview to different things.

Extended Metaphor Poem

I wrote my extended metaphor poem on flames because I think that it represents poetry well and it shows who I am as a person. This was one of the hardest ones to write and I made sure to put in lots of time on it. The flames aspect really helped describe what poetry meant to me but it was hard to write because I had to compare poetry to fire and they are similar and also very different.

Sound Poem

For the sound poem I wrote about playing soccer because it’s a very big part of my life and it’s very important to me. I put in all the different sounds that come whit playing soccer, which wasn’t hard because I play so much soccer. It was definitely on of the easiest poems to write because I didn’t have to think about it very much, I just had to write sounds down that related to soccer and I had to explain how it related to my worldview. Here’s what I said: “This represents my worldview because soccer is a large part of my worldview. This is because I value going outside and saying in good shape and being with friends and working towards something. I included parts such as talking to my friends and saying hi to them because friends are a important part”

Haikus:

We had to write three Haikus that related to our Worldview. Haikus are written in lines in patterns of 5 syllables 7 syllables and then 5 syllables. I wrote mine on what it’s like to be asleep when it’s raining and about walking on to a soccer pitch. This was difficult because we had to follow some rules, but I eventually got the hang of it and it was actually pretty easy!

Found Poem

For the found poem, we had to take a piece of writing and turn it into a poem by taking things out and moving them around. I took the piece of text from the hobbit. It was hard because we had to take things out and make a poem. This was hard because every little detail mattered and we needed to write it using correct grammar and punctuation. We could only add two words to make it fit together, so it was really hard.

Experience Poem

For this section, we had to write a poem based on an experience. This was quite easy to do because I had to write about an experience I had and make it in a poem. I did it on a movie theatre. Just like all my poems, I had to say why it related to my worldview and here’s what I said: The theme was think twice before you do something that may be dangerous or it can cause you harm. I chose this because it was an experience that really stood out to me.

About Me Video

For our about me video, we had to make it about us and the things we enjoy doing. I made one where I talked about the things I like doing and a more engaging video one.

Poetry Book

we had to put all of our poems into a book that displayed all of the poems that we wrote.

Conclusion 

This was one of the shortest projects at PLP so far! Even though it was mainly focused on writing, it was still very fun! It seemed to go by so fast and I definitely learnt a lot. This blog post definitely did not capture how much we did in the short time period so that’s why we put all of our poems in a book! Thank you so much for reading this and I hope you read some of my other posts! Bye!! 👋

Exhibition 

For the winter exhibition, we had our parents come into the gym to look at our work. What did we even do? We presented a set of 3 tableaus, one in medieval times, one in the Renaissance, and one in contemporary time. A tableau is made up of people that stand without moving creating art or a scene. In each tableau we had to include seven different aspects of worldview. “Woah woah” I know, it sounds like a lot of information, but allow me to explain.

Medieval Tableau

For the medieval tableau, Julia was horse to represent Geography, I was the speaker and I explained the tableau, Carmyn was a king to represent society and the wagon represented Economy, we had a sundial to represent time. We represented knowledge by adding a map, this is because educated people knew how maps worked and how to make them. The king also represented values because people valued a king to make important decisions for a society. To show beliefs, we had a cross on the king’s neck, this is because at the time, Christianity was a very popular religion.

Renaissance Tableau

The Renaissance tableau was the second hardest one to make and present (in my opinion.) To represent time, we had a more modern clock like the ones that were used in clock towers.  We showed values and society by including the king, because in the Renaissance times, the king held tons of power and pretty much every society had a monarchy. Economy was represented using the food wagon, because many people’s source of income was through farming and agriculture. Knowledge was the painter because painting is very difficult and requires someone who’s smart and knowledgeable. Me reading the bible represents beliefs because the bible is a book the many Christians refer to.

Contemporary Tableau 

The contemporary tableau was likely the hardest one because we had many props such as the voting booth, the ballot box, the food truck, and the clock. This made it hard because we had to take out multiple props out, and we only had 20 seconds to do so. The voting box represented values because most people today value the right to have a say and voice their opinions. The food truck represented economy and geography because many people buy and eat food from restaurants and the food truck represented geography because it could move to different places to sell food. The large clock represented time, Economy would also been showed by Ella holding the phone, because she was ordering food. The voting booth also demonstrated and displayed knowledge.

Triptych

We made the triptych using the three different tableaux. We made it digitally in Super Impose X. Most of the time, something the same carries through all three panels.

Renaissance Artwork

We also created the Renaissance artwork in Super Impose X, and by the time this project ended, I was a lot better with using it then I was at the beginning of the project. It was a lot like the Medieval one that I did, except it was in the Renaissance. One thing that I would’ve done differently was to do a better job of combining the image of me with the background.

Renaissance Paragraph

When we had completed the majority of the project, we had to write a paragraph talking about it. This was kind of difficult because there was many things that we had done so far, and it was hard to explain all of it. We had to revise it, and before I talked and talked, so I shortened it, and talked about my main points.

Conclusion 

this project was definitely the hardest one yet in PLP that I’ve done. We had to put in many hours after school working on the project, and it was difficult working in a group because we had to communicate with all of our group members. The good thing about it was that I learnt how an exhibition worked, and I also learnt so much about the Renaissance and medieval times. Thank you for reading my blog post and hopefully you’ll look out for my next ones 😁.