Category Humanities
When you think of crazy, you probably think of some person with weird hair and interesting behaviours. If I said that it takes a crazy person to change the world, you would probably think I’m crazy. I’m here to tell… Continue Reading →
Why does it take a crazy person to change the world? That is the driving question for our current humanities project: Cray Cray Yay Yay. This is a reasonably long project that involves a field study to Seattle. We would… Continue Reading →
Who am I? According to the About Me page I wrote in grade 8: My name is Silas. This is the blog that I have created to showcase some of the work that I have done in my program PLP… Continue Reading →
Why is it so important to learn about Canada’s involvement in World War II? This was the driving question for our most recent Humanities project, Save Juno Beach. Our goal was to answer this through the means of a formal… Continue Reading →
What is a just society? This is the question that we asked ourselves as part of our newest humanities project. The real question is, how do we figure this out? The concept of a just society changes from person to… Continue Reading →
War is glamorous and fun. It is a patriotic adventure for the bold. Or is it? For our final humanities project of PLP 9, we explored the contrasting narratives of war. The project was called Dulce et Decorum Est, which… Continue Reading →
You only have a few thousand dollars left. Will you pay combat the spread of a deadly virus, or will you continue expanding the capital. All sorts of problems have risen. You a are at risk of losing the nation… Continue Reading →
I had been sitting at my desk for hours, looking through evidence files, searching for a connection. If you asked me how long I have been working on this case for, I couldn’t tell you. Every day blends together. I… Continue Reading →
What were the consequences of the Industrial Revolution? I was tasked with creating a slam poem about this very topic. I knew nothing about the Industrial Revolution, and nothing about slam poetry. How would I accomplish this task? What process… Continue Reading →
For our second Humanities project of the year, we were tasked with exploring famous revolutions and arguing their effectiveness or ineffectiveness in a simulated court of law. Our driving question was “How did revolutions bring down empires and change societies… Continue Reading →
