Canada and its Growing Identity
Lesson One:
Jigsaw: Students, in groups, will complete a placemat activity answering a portion of questions from a workbook. Once their questions are answered, they will be reassigned groups so one member from each original group is present and can share-out the information for their questions. The information this activity will provide a brief intro/background to the next assignment, see below.
Lesson Two:19th Century Canada
19th Century Canada Project.
When students are presenting, the audience will be taking notes on this graphic organizer (front side) in order to complete the back side when all groups have gone.
One Pagers: Block One Block Two Block Three
For a summary of the events, mostly gathered from CanadianEncloypedia.ca: Significance of Events
Lesson Three: Indian Act
What do you already know about the Indian Act (teacher version with the video links) (student copy with a chart)
21 things you may not know about the Indian Act?
Lesson Four: Canadian Confederation
Jigsaw: Students, in groups, will complete a placemat activity answering a portion of questions from a workbook. Once their questions are answered, they will be reassigned groups so one member from each original group is present and can share-out the information for their questions. The information this activity will provide a brief intro/background to the next assignment, see below.
Lesson Two:19th Century Canada
19th Century Canada Project.
When students are presenting, the audience will be taking notes on this graphic organizer (front side) in order to complete the back side when all groups have gone.
One Pagers: Block One Block Two Block Three
For a summary of the events, mostly gathered from CanadianEncloypedia.ca: Significance of Events
Lesson Three: Indian Act
What do you already know about the Indian Act (teacher version with the video links) (student copy with a chart)
21 things you may not know about the Indian Act?
Lesson Four: Canadian Confederation
- Start with Canada a Story of Us, Episode 5 and students complete a worksheet of questions. This provides a nice visual of several of the topics discussed in the Jigsaw.
- Follow this with a video about the Utter Insanity of the Victoria Era: questions. For more details, read through these GSlides on the Victorian Era.
- Students will complete stations focusing on the reason for and again Confederation while filling out their workbooks provided. There are 7 stations.
- Then students will complete a workbook on the Road to Confederation including ranking and justifying their answers/opinions.
- Who was left out of Confederation. Students fill out a worksheet while following GSlides followed by answering a GForms "quiz."
- In class essay examining different perspectives on Confederation. Essay Template. In-class Essay.
- Perspectives: Louis Riel: Hero or Villian? Reading passage, graphic organizer, written response.
- Instagram Perspective Activity: research the perspectives of two groups with different viewpoints on a common topic. Create an Instagram page for each side (group or person) For potential Extending points, include a "Twitter War" comments section between your pages.
- Optional/Going Further: Louis Riel reading passages and extended paragraph questions.
World War One
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Lesson Five:
- Ask students what they already know about how WW1 contributed to Canadian identity. Ask students if they know if any of the their family members were involved in the war. Have them talk to their families tonight about it so hopefully they can share something with the class.
- Students will start this topic off with viewing 5 pictures and predicting in a sentence or two what is happening and trying to put them into chronological order. Answers will be provided as we learn about the topic.
- Next we will learn about the Causes of World War One by filling out a note sheet.
- We will return to the Picture Prediction sheet and see if any answers can be provided. (Hint: at least one)
- Introduce the topic's final assignment. Students will need to write letters home to Canada from soldiers fighting in Europe. Five scenarios have been given.
- Review the "MAIN" causes of the war by playing a few childhood games. Link each game to one of the causes. Red Rover, Musical Chairs and Chain Tag.
- Watch a video about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Lesson Two:
- Review the causes of the war by watching a Horrible Histories video.
- Watch a video on the Schlieffen Plan and how its failure created the trench system.
- Students will follow a ppt on Canada and the First World War by taking fill in the blank notes.
- There is a follow up ppt after this covering Trench Warfare with no notes. Watch Life in a Trench.
- We will return to the Picture Prediction sheet and see if any answers can be provided. ( Hint: 2-3)
- Watch a video about WW1 from Above.
- Learn about the major battles: Ypres, The Somme, Passchendaele and Vimy Ridge. Watch the Story of Us, episode 6
- Have students read the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, a poem about the gas attacks in WW1.
- Let students start brainstorming ideas for their letters home .
Lesson Three:
- Play hot seat with some of the new terminology learned.
- War on the Home Front and Notes.
- Watch this video about the evolution of Tanks.
- We will return to the Picture Prediction sheet and see if any answers can be provided.
- Record definitions for primary, secondary sources, corroborates and bias on DBQs worksheet.
- Primary Source: a source created at the time of the event. Less reliable. ex. newspaper, speeches, art, newscast, eyewitness accounts.
- Secondary Source: a source created after the event. more reliable (analyzing multiple sources, so less bias) Ex. movies, books, textbooks, academic articles, memoirs
- Corroboration: agrees with/supports
- Bias: learning to one side of an issue, not considering both sides or letting feelings get in the way of the truth
- Complete questions on the DBQ sheet, due next class.
- Recap the four Acts of War: (write down)
- War Measures Act: gave federal govt emergency powers to ensure the security of Canada. Included the suspension of Habeas Corpus and censoring mail. Enemy aliens could be detained, arrested or deported.
- Military Services Act: Compulsory enlistment
- Military Voters Act: Men and women overseas can vote
- Wartime Election Act: Gave the right to vote to widows, mothers, wives, adult daughters and sisters of Canadian men serving overseas. At the same time, conscientious objectors cannot vote or "enemy aliens" who immigrated less than 15 years before
- Watch a video about the Military Services Act.
- Have students play Four Corners regarding the Conscription Crisis. Have each student share out something at the end.
- Watch History Bombs and Crash Course on WW1
- Work on letters home.
Lesson Four:
- End of the War and Notes.
- We will return to the Picture Prediction sheet and see if any answers can be provided. (Hint: the final one)
- Introduce how the Treaty of Versailles was important to Canada: (because we got our own seat (first time we were involved with an international treaty without Britain being in charge. Got a seat at the League of Nations, first time other countries see us as an international player)
- Students will create 3 multiple choice questions with answers to used for a classroom Kahoot. Be creative with your questions but remember there is a character limit for the questions and responses. Due at the end of the class.
Lesson Five:
- Final class time to work on Letters Home assignment.