An assignment that I am proud of from last semester was our newspaper assignment in Social Studies. Our task was to create a bias newspaper from the point of view of a specific side during the French Revolution (no, our teacher did not hate us). Our point of view was that of the citizens, so we had to write articles about tyranny and corruption and how the rulers were all royal pigs. It was a lot of fun, figuring out how the citizens would think of the situation, since (believe it or not) I wasn’t there at the time and I have only studied it decades later looking back.

My favorite part of this assignment was the ‘extras’ part. We were supposed to add stuff that newspapers have, like sudoku and ads and stuff like that. I decided to do a crossword puzzle that I’m quite proud of (picture down below). Anyone can do it, including whoever’s reading this, but I didn’t post the answer key. A small issue may be if you don’t speak French, but I’m sure you could easily overcome that, using our good friend Google Translate. It was a fun assignment and I would love to do something similar in the future (as long as I have access to a crossword puzzle site to do all the work for me).

(the image is a lot more blurry than I intended it to be. Sorry)

One assignment that I was very proud of this semester was my first Socials project. It was a 15-20 minute presentation (I know! 15-20 minutes- I nearly passed out upon hearing that) about the 60s Scoop that I worked on with two of my friends.

I’m really proud of that project in particular because it was very challenging and we did not have much class time to work on it. We ended up having a four hour call over the weekend to finish it (read “having a four hour call” as “suffering”), but I was really proud of it when we did. It was thorough, well-researched and clear that we really understood the topic.  We all got great marks on it, and it was one of the few projects that I felt proud of when I finished it, instead of feeling like “well, good thing that’s over”.

I haven’t had that many projects so far, but out of the ones I did, this one is the one I feel most proud of.