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 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!!!