Day 68: Government review

Kahoot government multiple choice review questions.


Have a fantastic Winter break!


See you in two weeks.


Only 15 days remain in 1st semester.

Day 67: Beginning of the Cold War

CTV clip on top Canadian Google searches in 2015


Reviewed the UN's function, and then worked through p. 274-279 with students taking notes on Canadian involvement in peacekeeping missions.


Syrian civil war (showed them this short clip outlining the complex situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKb9GVU8bHE).


Handout: "Rise of the Suburbs," "Age of the automobile," and "Teen Culture"/half of the front page for HW

Day 66: United Nations and Post WW2

United Nations notes: CLICK TO PRINT
United Nations handout: CLICK TO PRINT
Terms from the Cold War: CLICK TO PRINT


We didn't start the fire (billy Joel)


Current events: 16x9 - Cold War restarting?


Funny clip of impersonation of Putin (Fallon and Dana Carvey)


United Nations notes


Notes: Cold War begins (Iron Curtain)


CPH: Gouzenko and the spy ring in Canada


Page 190 - 195.  Do questions #1-5 on page 196.

Day 65: Formal apology on Residential schools

Handout: First Nations and Beyond (chapter 8)


Click to watch Stephen Harper's formal apology


Video: We Were Children


In groups, determine how you would best organize a provincial exam question on First Nations issues:
Page 471 - Explain challenges faced by Aboriginal people in Canada during the 20th century and their responses, with reference to reserves, self-government, residential schools, and treaty negotiations.

Day 64: First Nations issues

Went over MC questions from WW2 review.


Current events: Canada's latest on the Paris Climate Summit
Click to watch
During the Geography unit we looked at the Kyoto Protocol.  This is the latest with regards to the fight against global warming.


Current events: Syrian refugees arrive on Canadian soil.
Click to watch


Handout: First Nations issues (a look at various events/incidents since 1914)


If there is a provincial exam questions related to First Nations issues how would you organize your answer?
Please copy the thoughts on the whiteboard
Negative points in history: discrimination?  relocation?  voting rights?  Residential schools?
Positive points in recent history: treaties and land claims?  self-government? key figures in government (Trudeau's cabinet members)


Video: We Were Children


WW2 projects handed back.


If you have not completed your inclass topic write on WW2 please come see me before Friday.

Day 63: Wrapping up WW2

Collected journal (WW2 presentation exit slips)


Inclass write (12 marks)


Multiple choice Q's - open book (27 marks)


Mind map due next Tuesday.


Have a great weekend

Click to print FIRST NATIONS NOTES for Monday/Tuesday
Click to print notes on RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS

Day 62: WW2 presentations & wrapping up the war

• Holocaust
• Airforce

Wrapping up the war: Page 142 - 152
Handout: Dieppe.  Italian Campaign.  After D-day (Battle of the Scheldt.  Battle of the Rhineland.  Liberating the Netherlands).  VE Day (Victory Day in Europe).  Japan surrenders. Crimes against humanity.  Holocaust.  Nuremberg trials.  Tokyo trials


Mindmap: due next week.  Topic: Discuss the political/economic/social changes to Canada during WW2.

Day 61: WW2 presentations

• D-Day
• Atomic Bomb

Day 60: WW2 presentations

• Propaganda
• Dieppe
• Conscription

Day 59: WW2 presentations

• Navy
• Pearl Harbour
• Hong Kong

Day 58: Presentations

Presentation: Hitler
Presentation: Battle of Britain


Handouts and mapping
Covering Pges 127 to 137.


CPH: King goes to Berlin.  Canada enters the war


Click to print notes

Day 57: Beginning of WW2

A look at dancing the Charleston:Click to watch

Handout: Intro to WW2
Answers to 1930s mc sheet

Read Pg 110 - Change in Federal government.  Federal/Provincial Tensions.  Rowell-Sirois report

Pg 114/115  Depression and Global politics.
What is happening in Germany after the war.  Depression in Asia.  Russians embracing communism.

Chapter 5: Canada and World War 2
Pg 120-126.  Click to print notes on causes of WW2

Student presentation #1: Rape of Nanking

Day 56: Government response

Read 101 - 104
Government's response.  On-to-Ottawa trek.  Trouble in Vancouver.  Roosevelt's New Deal.  Bennett's New Deal

Page 104.  #1, 3, 4

CPH: Dear Mr. Bennett & The End of the Line

Jazz age - an era being born in the 20s/30s

Day 55: Solutions to the Great Depression

Images of people living during the Great Depression.
CPH: Hard times & Decent into Chaos


Read pages 94-100.  Questions #1, 2a, 3, 6 on page 100.
(Prairie Drought.  Unemployment.  Pogey.  Riding the rails.  Disadvantaged (immigrants/Aboriginals), women in the 1930s.


Note: Solutions to the Great Depression

Day 54: Economic cycles and the Great Depression

Went over answers to the 1920s MC questions


1920s slang


Timeline: Changes to Canada in the 1920s.  How Canada changed politically/economically/socially.


Handout: Economic cycle
Notes: Causes of the Great Depression
Handout - worksheet.  Causes of the Great Depression

Day 53: WWI quiz and Canada's growing independence in the 1920s

WWI Quiz.


Canada's growing independence


Pg. 80-83.
Pg. 80 Questions #1,2,5


Complete the multiple choice questions from yesterday handout.