Farewell!

I can't believe our time together in Socials 10 is at an end. I have loved and learned every minute working with you all. Your humour, creativity, insight and kindness has made each day a joy. Thank you for all of your hard work.

I wish each and every one of you fulfillment and wild peculiar joy as you set out on your next journey, your next bright, bright horizon.

p.s. remember back to your own Kindergarten years; see how far you've come!

Week 17: What to Expect

Monday, June. 10th:

"Strange Fruit" - Warning: Sensitive Historical Images

* What is Canada's dark history?
* Exploring the closing door to immigration: Komagatu Maru Affair
* Can we ever find justice for the wrongs committed in history? 

Tuesday, June. 11th:

* Laurier Era Quiz

* Class exploration of Vancouver Anti-Asian Riot of 1907

* Work with friends to complete Blackline Masters 

* Practice Final Exam questions

Wednesday, June. 12th:

* Final Exam Practice Quiz

* Create own Final Exam Review Board Game

* We play Monday. Final Exam Tuesday

Thursday, June. 13th:

* Final Exam practice quiz

* Create Final Exam Board Game

Friday, June. 14th:

* Final Exam practice quiz

* Finish Final Exam Board Game

* Board Game due Monday. Final Exam Tuesday.

Have a Fantastic Weekend. Study in the sun!

Week 16: What to Expect

Monday, June. 3rd:
* Prepare your Heritage Project presentation in Library

Tuesday, June. 4th:
* Final classes on Heritage Project presentation in C127
* Complete all finishing touches to your presentation: visuals? speech practiced and timed? editing your iMovie?
* Complete your bibliography
* Hand in all research package notes and properly formatted bibliography

Wednesday and Thursday June. 5th & 6th:
* Present your Heritage Project to the class

Friday June. 7th:

* Women's rights in early 20th century
* Independently read Horizons pg: 276-282. Complete graphic organizer on women's and First Nations' rights
* Key content quiz Tuesday before lunch. Study!

Family Heritage Webquest

As you endeavor to unearth your family's history through interviews and print, also use these genealogy  sites:

• Rootsweb Engine: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi. This site allows you to search existing family trees
• Rootsweb Research Tools: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/. This is the free portion of ancestry.com
• The Canadian Letters and Images Project: http://www.canadianletters.ca/. Online archive of the Canadian War experience
• Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/. Free family history and genealogy records
• Canada GenWeb: http://www.canadagenweb.org/. Gateway to free Canadian genealogy. Check out the provincial links.
• Genealogy.com: http://genforum.genealogy.com/surnames/. Surnames forum
• Library and Archives Canada: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/022/index-e.html. Genealogy and Family History

The Heritage Project criteria, with sample interview questions and important explanations can be found here.

Week 15: What to Expect

Monday, May. 27th: Professional Development Day. Students not in session.

Tuesday, May. 28th:
* Design interview questions and begin research for Family Heritage Project
* Use the prepared web resources available through this class blog, as well as the library's prepared print resources and more to help you dive into your own history
* See the project criteria here
* Before lunch we are in the library, after lunch we are in C127 across the hall

Wednesday, May. 29th:
* Class use interviewed information to help guide Family Tree and genealogy research in C127

Thursday, May. 30th & Friday, May. 31st:
* Dig deeper into Family Heritage Project in the library
* Explore significant Canadian and world history that connects and is significant to your family's story
* Document sources for bibliography
* Begin planning how to present to the class next Wednesday

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

Week 13: What to Expect

Mon., May 13th:
* Challenge your friends' Northwest know-how. Conquer a friend's quiz
* The Pacific Scandal and McDonald's National Policy
* Class explore political cartoons
* Quiz Wednesday. Study, study, study

Tues. May, 14th:
* Create your own Political Cartoon on the Pacific Scandal
* Play with proportion, exaggeration, symbolism, scathing sarcasm, shadow and light.
* Quiz tomorrow: Study, study, study!

Wed. May, 15th:
* Chapter 5 key content quiz
* Dumont claimed he knew they would be beaten, he knew they would perish. So why rebel?

* Class read pg. 192-197: Explore the rebellion and complete graphic organizer of cause, event and consequence

Thurs. May, 16th:
* Riel documentary film

Fri. May, 17th:
* Complete outline of arguments for Tuesday's in-class essay on the Northwest Rebellion
* Be ready to write in class (and edit) on Tuesday!

Have a Fabulous Long Weekend!