WW2 projects are marked and entered into MyEd (1pm April 29th) Please check as a few are missing.
This page is ready for At Home Learning, Monday April 6th.
Canada and World War Two
Statement of Inquiry: Authority, security and freedom can affect how we perceive conflict and global interactions.
Key Concept: Global Interactions
Related Concepts: Perspective and Conflict
Global Context and Exploration: Fairness and Development --> Authority, Security and Freedom
Guiding Questions:
Factual: What is a global interaction?
Conceptual: How did Canada's perspective change during the conflict of WW2?
Debatable: To what extent was WW2 positive for the world?
Please complete lessons 1 and 2 for the week of April 6th. I dont need you to send me your completed notes, unless you have any questions, just complete the GForms at the end of the week's activities and report back in there.
Lesson One:
Lesson Two:
Please complete the GForms
At Home Learning Continuation: Week of April 14th to 24th (2 weeks) This Project is due April 24th.
Stop here. Go to Geography. This is the end of our WW2 unit. If you are really interested in learning more (as there is a lot more to it) take either History or History through Film next year.
Classroom Setting:
Lesson Three:
Lesson Four:
Lesson Five:
Lesson Six:
Lesson Seven:
Key Concept: Global Interactions
Related Concepts: Perspective and Conflict
Global Context and Exploration: Fairness and Development --> Authority, Security and Freedom
Guiding Questions:
Factual: What is a global interaction?
Conceptual: How did Canada's perspective change during the conflict of WW2?
Debatable: To what extent was WW2 positive for the world?
Please complete lessons 1 and 2 for the week of April 6th. I dont need you to send me your completed notes, unless you have any questions, just complete the GForms at the end of the week's activities and report back in there.
Lesson One:
- What do student already know about Canada's role in WW2? write on board/think in your head. Ask your family for personal connections to the war.
- Read page 119 in the textbook and discuss how the response to war being declared in 1939 was very different than when it was declared in 1914 (feels forced, reluctant, not excited.)
- Students will follow a Road to War GSlides and take notes.
- Watch WW2 in 7 minutes and John Greene's Crash Course of WW2.
Lesson Two:
- Read through notes on why WW2 happened and the beginning/trigger.
- Revisit WW1 battle tactics by making desks into trenches and throwing paper balls at each other. Then demonstrate a blitzkrieg**. Obviously we wont be able to hold this recreation but for those of you who have friends who were in I&S with me first semester, ask them about this if you are interested.
- Discuss the main elements of blitzkrieg and watch this video. (surprize, speed and coordinated attack with trucks, planes, tanks and soldiers) and how it changed the style of warfare and made WW2 take place over a much larger space than WW1.
- Start the documentary Canada's Role in WW2, answer the questions. Send these to me please by April 14th. Warning: the sound quality on this isn't great. I will post the answers to this at the end of the week. (Canada: The Story of Us episode 8 on CBC Gem (free but need an account) is another interesting one to watch) Here is the answer key to the above questions.
Please complete the GForms
At Home Learning Continuation: Week of April 14th to 24th (2 weeks) This Project is due April 24th.
- April 14th: Introduce the WW2 project. Normally I would only have 1 students covering each topic but instead I will let you pick what ever topic you want. Please let me know which topic you want. Instead of sharing this out in front of the class, it will be your job to find 2 other peers who are doing different topics and share it with them. How you do that will depend on the format of your project but Zoom and and Microsoft Teams work well. You will need to record and share with me 3 things that you learned from your peers' presentations.
- April 20th: This week you will continue to work on your WW2 project. Reminder it is due Friday April 24th. You will need to have also shared your project with 2 peers and have recorded 3 things that you learned from each of them with me. This can just be added to the end of your project if that works. Keeping multiple pieces together helps and you stay organized. Please complete the Google Form for this week by Friday April 24th at noon so I can report back to the admin about which students are continuing to complete work and which are not. They will be in contact with you if you are choosing to not complete work.
Stop here. Go to Geography. This is the end of our WW2 unit. If you are really interested in learning more (as there is a lot more to it) take either History or History through Film next year.
Classroom Setting:
Lesson Three:
- Review the questions from last day from the documentary and answer 5 more questions (up to 10 now)
- Give students the rest of class to research for their project. Please let me know by today what format you will be using for your presentation so I can book the appropriate devices.
Lesson Four:
- Review the questions from last day from the documentary.
- Watch a clip from Band of Brothers on the end of WW2. What conditions allowed this to happen?
- Read two Holocaust Quotes. What do they means
- Quote 1: "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communists so I did not speak up, Then they came for the Socialists and Trade Unionists, but I was neither so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so i did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." Martin Niemoeller.
- Quote 2: "All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
- Receive Holocaust Child, answer a few questions about them.
- what sports/activities does your child engage in, why?
- does s/he have any sisters or brothers, what does s/he think of them?
- how are you similar to your child in your dis/likes?
- Go meet another student in your class and make friends with them. What is their name? What are you friends?
- Waht are your future job ambitions? what do you want to do with your life?
- Discuss your family, similar to that of your child's family
- Look at Ladder of prejudice ( google search for image)
- Holocaust GSlides. Student can list instead of taking notes. During the section on Auschwitz, show the clips of the train arriving at Auschwitz in Schindler's List.
- Watch the Stanley Milgram clip, explain why this could happen anywhere at any time.
- Reveal fate of holocaust child.
- Watch two Disney Cartoons
- Analyze examples of propaganda.
Lesson Five:
- Continue watching Canada's Role. Answer 10 questions (up to 20 done)
- Work on WW2 project.
Lesson Six:
- Finish watching Canada's Role. Answer remaining questions
- Work on WW2 project.
Lesson Seven:
- Share out projects. All notes need to be provided to me the day before.
- While watching, students will be recording notes on at least 5 presentations that help support our SOI (Authority, security and freedom can affect how we perceive conflict and global interactions)
- Click here for the package created by block C. Click here for the package created by block D.