Humanities | Sydnee’s reflections

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The World Needs More Canada, Eh 🇨🇦

Canada may be recognized for the maple syrup, hockey talent, Tim Hortons, and our funny way of talking but we are so much more. Canada is a peacekeeping country, its home to many diverse cultures, and we value and protect the rights of our citizens. In this project we explored Canadian identity, Canada on the…

WW1 Con 📖🇨🇦

My last project in PLP 9 was definitely one to remember. We were tasked with a challenge. We were to create a 20 panel graphic novel with hand drawn images and a unique storyline. In this post I will talk about my process of creating my graphic novel and the things I learned along the…

German Nationalism 🇩🇪

Have you ever tried watching a history video on YouTube? If you have, you know its usually very fast paced with a middle aged man as the host. In this project, I wanted to change that. I had to create a 4 minute YouTube video on German nationalism. In this project I learned a lot…

MPOL ✍️🗣️

Hello and welcome to my MPOL! Or just POL? I’m not sure anymore. No matter what it’s called, you will still be getting a presentation by me showing you my learning so far in this school year. DECLERATION Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning….

Rise of the Frankenstuffies

With a mix of a stuffed giraffe, mouse, and duck, I created my frankenstuffie named Jackson. Jackson is a 10 year old boy from Chicago, who loves peanut butter. The idea of Jackson came to me when I was craving a PB&J sandwich. Now you may be wondering why I am talking about a stuffie…

Getting Riel 🇨🇦📜

Who was Louis Riel? Louis Riel was a Canadian, Métis man who fought for the rights of his people. He was a brave confident man who helped give the Métis people a voice. In this project, we were assigned to create a multi-paragraph response, about Louis Riel. We were to answer the question: How has…

Metaphor Machines 📜⚙️🔨

What do you get when you add revolutions, and Rube Goldberg machines together? Well, a lot of chaos and a very cool project to share with people at the winter exhibition. This project consisted of two main parts. Learning everything about our revolutions and building our machine. Once we gained a strong understanding of our…

Hiking and Learning! 🥾✍️

Alberta was filled with hiking and learning! And yes I did put them in order of what we did more! In total we hiked around 40 kilometres. Now, this post is about what we learned not about the large amount of hiking we did. We went to Alberta to answer the driving question, How has…

Tpol 2023

Hello and welcome to my TPOL. “Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank…

PLP 8 in Oregon 🌊

Oregon, where to start! Oregon is a truly beautiful place full of amazing things that we got to do! Some things we did went from seeing a gun library, to learning about the war, to learning how to make cheese, and just seeing the natural beauty Oregon has to offer. It’s hard for me…