Week 6: What to Expect

Monday, March. 11th:
* Create Immigration Journal
* Quiz on early Canada tomorrow

Tuesday, March. 12th:
* Complete Immigration Journal. Peer conference and edit.
* Quiz on Early Canada, all class information on land and power, oligarchy, immigration (text pg. 10-32).
* Why would upper and lower Canada rebel against the government?
* Class explore causes that lead to rebellion

Wednesday, March. 13th:
* Events and results of the Rebellions
* Lord Durham's Report, his recommendations, and the Act of Union 1841
* Unit Test Friday: Complete review and study

Thursday, March. 14th:
* Practice quiz
* Complete independent review
* Class jeopardy review

Friday. March. 15th:
* Early Canada and Rebellions Test

Hope you soak up the sun, fun and freedom! Have a great Spring Break

Week 5: What to Expect

Mon. March. 4th:
* Ball Toss Review: What do you know? What do you need to learn?
* Class guided read of the issue of land and power in early Canada
* Complete Cornell notes of your own on main ideas and significant details.

Tues. March. 5th:
* Groups create skit to showcase the lives of the different power groups in early Canada
* Present skit and group slogan
* Explore immigration to Canada: African-Americans fleeing slavery & those who came in coffin ships

* Immigration Journal introduced. Brainstorm and consider the perspective you'll take: in-class created Monday March. 11th

Wed. March 6th, 7th & 8th:
* Class Film Analysis of Amistad

Based on a true story, Amistad is the saga of a failed mutiny on board a Spanish slave ship and the trial that followed. In the summer of 1839, fifty-three African captives, led by Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), broke free and took over the slave ship Amistad. Captured off the eastern seaboard after failing in a desperate attempt to sail home, they find themselves strangers in a strange land and at the mercy of the American justice system. Fighting for the Africans are abolitionist Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) and young lawyer Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey). However, seeking re-election, President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) is willing to sacrifice the Africans to appease the pro-slavery South. The case takes on historic proportions when former President John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) comes out of retirement to take the Africans' cause all the way to the United States Supreme Court in a trial that challenges the very foundation of the American legal system.

* Study for Early Canada quiz Tuesday March. 12th and unit test next Friday!!!