Silas’s Journey to Independence

And Everything It Takes Me to Get There

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Our Trip Loon Lake

A few weeks ago, PLP 8 and 9 went on our first field study. We went to the Loon Lake Lodge and Retreat Centre for three nights and had a great time. We wanted to be amazing learners on our… Continue Reading →

Mid-Year Presentation of Learning 2022

Welcome to my grade 8 mPOL (mid-year Presentation of learning). This post is my reflection on everything I have done in grade 8 thus far. I’ll be talking about my core competencies, some of my projects for each subject, some… Continue Reading →

Destination Improvisation

For the past few months in Maker we have been preparing for Destination Imagination (DI) 2022. Now that we are around halfway through preparations, we have decided to make a reflective post on how DI is going so far. What… Continue Reading →

I Made a Book About Potery

Over the past couple weeks in Humanities, we have been working on a project called Working With Worlds. The driving question was “How might I construct text that shows who I am right now?” In this project we would create… Continue Reading →

I Made a Triangle With a Laser

Over the past few months in Scimatics, we have been working on a project titled Laser Laws. The driving question was “How can we test the Pythagorean theorem and the law of reflection.” In this project we worked with a… Continue Reading →

My Favourite Movies of 2021

For my final post in this series, I am ranking my top five live action movies that I saw in 2021. My ranking of 2021 animated movies is in a separate post. Spoiler warning for some of these movies (especially… Continue Reading →

How Movies Can Bring Up Emotion

This is an image I have made as part of my recent series about movies is saw in 2021. It represents different emotions that I experience when watching a film. A good film can make you feel what the character… Continue Reading →

The Ups and Downs of 2021 Animated Movies

I have always loved animated movies of all types. Last year, lots of great animated films came out. This post is my ranking of five animated movies I saw that came out in 2021. I understand that there are other… Continue Reading →

How to Watch Movies During a Pandemic

Lots of great movies and TV shoes came out in 2021, as well as many bad ones. The film industry made 4.5 billion dollars in 2021 alone. Demand for film is high, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down…. Continue Reading →

I Learned About Worldview Through a Book

Over the past couple of months in humanities, we have been working on a project called The Outsiders. The driving question was “What can The Outsiders teach us about worldview?” In this project we read the book The Outsiders by… Continue Reading →

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