Thursday 16 May 2013

Week 14: What to Expect

Monday, May. 20th: Victoria Day! Enjoy your long weekend!

Tuesday, May. 21st:
* Complete your in-class essay explaining the causes and significance of the Northwest Rebellion
* Open-book. Use your expertly prepared outline, arguments, and evidence.
* Edit, self-evaluate and submit.

Wednesday, May. 22nd:

* How well do you know Vancouver history? Test your know-how
* Some Vancouver history: the Oppenheimers, Gassy Jack Deighten
* Read p. 234-236. Work with your friends through key events in our past.
Early Stanley Park, 1911 and the planting of Shakespeare Tree


Gassy Jack Deighten, the Father of Gas Town














Thursday, May. 23rd:
* Think-Pair-Share: What issues have divided French and English Canada? Are they reconciled now?
* Class explore Laurier's conflicts and compromises
* Independently judge the choices made, predict what they mean for Canada as a whole and for specific groups


Friday, May. 24th:
* pop-quiz :)
* The Arrival. Shaun Tan's wordless masterpiece on the immigration experience

* Laurier Boom and immigration
* Independently analyze push and pull factors of Canada's early 20th century immigration


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