Week 11: What to Expect

Mon. April. 29th:
* Write your Sale of Rupert's Land editorial. Be scathing, be persuasive, bring your chosen person to life!
* Peer edit and revise your editorial. Due tomorrow
* Quiz tomorrow on the Northwest. Study class notes, documents & Chapter 4

Tues. April. 30th:
* Quiz on the Northwest
* The Red River Rebellion: Class explore the causes, events and outcomes
* Documentary on the Red River Rebellion: History's Rebels

Wed. May. 1st:
* Gallery Walk exploring Louis Riel

* Class explore propaganda techniques
* Create your own propaganda. Will you portray Riel as savior or threat?

Thurs. May 2nd:
* Complete your impressive propaganda posters. Due Monday

Have a spectacular long weekend!

Week 10: What to Expect

Mon. April, 22nd:
* Chapter 2 Test
* Show what you know and take your time with the multiple choice and written response

Tues. April, 23rd:

*Fur trading companies, fur trader life
* Class read pg 130-134
* Create Venn diagram on Hudson's Bay Company vs. North West Company: Which would you work for? Why?
* Class vote on which company is better
* Independent read pg. 135-142. Complete graphic organizer. What impact did the fur trade have on First Nations communities?
Class debate: The fur trade could not have existed without the First Nations peoples.

Wed. April. 24th:
* Painting analysis
* Why was the bison hunt so important to Metis culture? How did the rules of the hunt help shape Metis society?
* Class read Red River Settlement: pg. 143-146
* Expert groups form and teach class

Thurs. April, 25th:

* George Simpson: What sort of man do you think he was? Why?
* HBC & NWC merge
* Create a quiz for your friends. Go ahead, be merciless!

Fri. April, 26th:
* Complete your friend's quiz
* Hudson's Bay Company buys Rupert's Land.
* Class explore the controversy: Create your own editorial on the matter. Be passionate. Be vocal!
* Editorial continued in class Monday, peer-edited and handed in.

Have a Fabulous Weekend!

Week 9: What to Expect

Monday, April. 15th:
* Political parties of our past: How they steered the ship towards Confederation
* Partner and small group work on factors that lead to Confederation questions
* See the Canadian Confederation website

Tuesday, April. 16th:
* Confederation Role-Play
* Create your colony: Will you be Canada East? prince Edward Island?
* Organize what your colony wants and why
* Will you settle for Confederation? Will you push for annexation?

Wednesday, April. 17th:
* Prepare for Confederation Role-Play: Hosted tomorrow

Thursday, April. 18th:
* Confederation Conference
* Overhead Present
* Colony debate
* Colonies vote

* Was Confederation achieved?


Friday, April. 19th:
* Confederation practice quiz
* Class explore "the conferences to the British North America Act"
* Partners and individualy complete Chapter test review
* Chapter 2 Test (on Victorian Life and Confederation) on Monday. Be Ready

Have a Fantastic Weekend in the Sun!!!

Week 8: What to Expect

Mon. April. 8th:
* Victorian Era Quiz: Show what you know
* Victorian Invention Sell-Off: Showcase your infomercial. May the best sell win!
* Work on Chapter 2 Review sheet: Unit Exam Mon. April. 22nd

Tues, April. 9th-Thurs, April. 11th:
* Gangs of New York

* Contrast Hollywood's depiction of Victorian Era to our investigation of history
* Complete film analysis and hand in

Fri, April. 12th:
* Confederation: The birth of Canada
* What differences between the colonies would prevent a union?
* Why would some colonies favour a union? Which colonies? How would they benefit from Confederation?
* Horizons: pg. 76-79. Complete graphic organizer and questions outlining the reasons leading to Confederation. Very Important

Have a Spectacular Weekend!!!

Week 7: What to Expect

Tues. April. 2nd:
* Gallery Walk of the Victorian Era

* What were their values? How are they different and similar to us today?

* Partner exploration of First Nations' interactions with British Colonists in early Canada: Who were the Alginkians, Mokawks and Ojibwa? How did their lives change? What remained the same? Who assimilated? Who protested?

Wed. April. 3rd:
* Scientific and Medical advancement: What have been the biggest breakthroughs in our time?
* Science and Medicine jigsaw: Become an expert on one aspect of medical history, meet with your firends and teach each other

* Class competition: Show what you know!

Thurs, April. 4th:

* Leisure and Travel in the Victorian Era: How would newspapers be revolutionary?

* Sarah Bernhart, the biggest star of the times: compare to our starlets. Is she like Kim Kardashian? Lady Gaga?

* Play Parlour Games! No phones, no technology, back to the 1800s for entertainment.

Fri, April. 5th:

* Practice Victorian Era Quiz: What do you know? What do you need to work on?

* Groups explore inventions of the Victorian era: Persuasive sell-off Monday! What was the greatest invention of the times? Convince us.

* STUDY!!! Victorian Era Quiz Monday

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!!!