Day 80: Final class

Teacher evaluation form.

Handout: Canada - a welfare nation

Review package.  Multiple choice, Matching and order of events.

Congrats on a great semester.

Good luck on the provincial exam.

Be on time!  Bring a pen, pencil and your textbook.

Day 79: Essay topic review

Various essay topics from previous provincial exams were discussed and explored:

• Explain the challenges facing Canadians as they attempt to reduce the impacts of global warming
• Describe the steps that led to Canada achieving autonomy from Britain.  Use examples from the period 1914 to 2000
• Explain the difficulties that developing nations experience as they try to break the poverty cycle
• Describe realistic strategies that Canadians could take to reduce their negative impact on land, water and the atmosphere
• Explain how intolerance has been an issue in Canada since 1914
• To what extent was the Canadian government successful in its attempts to deal with the Depression?  Your answer should consider both sides of the statement

Day 78: Multiple choice review

Provincial exam review

Day 77: Oral interviews

Oral interviews continued

Day 76: Interviews and practice exams

Met in the library.
Oral interviews to test for understanding of events in world history.
Mindmap/notes collected (self evaluation mark).

Provincial exam review.  Looking at the released online sample tests Click to access exams

Day 75: Social issues/change

Self evaluation for the in class essay using the provincial 6-point marking scale.

After giving yourself a mark out of 6, go through your text book and write down some facts that you think you can add to increase your content mark.

Handout: Social issues/changes
Textbook: Pg 206 - 211

Handout: Provincial exam review outline

A fun look at pop culture from 1930s to 2000.  How much do you know?

Have a great weekend.

Review for your provincial exam.

Oral interviews on Monday/Tuesday.  Meet directly in the library on Monday.

Day 74: Inclass essay write

In class essay write. 

Aim for 5 paragraphs
Introduction (include a thesis statement).  3 body paragraphs (include a topic sentence).  Conclusion

Day 73: Charlottetown Accord and 1995 referendum

Current events: Cuba and US officials meeting about opening relations between the two countries.
Economy: companies leaving Canada/Vancouver (Target, Chapters on Robson, Sony, Mexx, Smart set, Jacob)

Review of Pg. 257-264.
1980 Referendum
Meech Lake Accord
Charlottetown Accord
1995 Referendum

Preparation for in class essays tomorrow.

Major topic areas:

• Canada in the Cold War
• French/English relations
• Aboriginal issues

Day 72: FLQ crisis and Meech Lake Accord

Current events: MLK day in the US yesterday.  A look at the Selma movie trailer.

Went over answers  from the sheet (matching)

CPH: October 1970.  FLQ crisis.  War Measures Act

Handout: 22 MC questions

A fun look at French-English language laws (Canadian Bacon)

HW: Do an essay outline for French English relations.

In class essay on Thursday.

Day 71: "Maitre chez nous" and a new flag

Discussed Quebec nationalism notes from last day

CPH: Maitres Chez Nous (Quebec, Homegrown culture, separatism, Roman Catholic Church, Education, Quiet Revolution)

CPH: Under a New Flag (FLQ, Bilingualism/Biculturalism, New Flag, Trudeau)

Pg 216 #1,2a
Pg 221, #1,2

Handout: Ch 8  - The Canadian Identity (matching).  Just do parts 1 and 2.

Day 70: Economic Issues and Quebec Nationalism

A look at events of the Cold War and 40 years of history through music: We Didn't Start the Fire

Handout: Rubric for oral interviews.  Notes/mind map will be collected after your interview (Monday, Jan 26 and Tuesday, Jan 27)

In class essay on Thursday, Jan 22. 
Part A topics to study: J, K, M
Part B topics to study: E, F, G, H

CPH: End of Illusions (Economic issues, OPEC, Alberta oil)

Economic issues sheet.  Complete the remainder of the sheet:

• New Economic ideas (p. 265)
• Down the Road to Free Trade (p. 266)
• Liberals tackling the debt (p. 268)
• A New Age of Globalization (p. 268)

Handout: Quebec Nationalism

Notes:The Great Darkness.  "Time for a Change"  Can it be solved

Day 69: In class debates

Great job today with the debates.

Self evaluation and peer evaluation.

Day 68: Debate prep and Economic issues

Went over the end of the cold war.  Fall of the USSR.
Clip of Mikael Gorbachev's resignation on December 25, 1991

Groups for debate.
Two topics tomorrow
Typed copy of your debate points will be collected

High Alert Drill in class.  Code YELLOW - RED - GREEN.  What to do if there is an issue on or near school grounds. 

Handout: Cold War review Questions.  10 questions.

Handout: Economic Issues (Ch. 7).  Complete up to "Dual income families."  At the bottom of Economic Challenges (p.223)

Change in schedule:
In class essay write on Wednesday, January 21.

Day 67: End of the Cold War

An interesting look at the connection between Sports and Politics

• 1936 Munich Olympics (Jesse Owens winning gold for the USA)
• Summit series.  1972 Canada vs. USSR Click to watch
• 1987 Canada Cup Click to watch
• Olympic boycotts (Moscow 1980.  LA 1984)
• Mandela and South African World Cup of Rugby

Vietnam War: Canadian involvement/lack of involvement. 
Famous image (Kim Phuc - "Napalm girl")

JFK assassination (beyond conspiracy): Click to watch

Finish the remainder of the worksheet.  From "the End of the Cold War) to Peacekeeping.

Also do the questions on page 279 #1,3,4,6.

Have your debate notes ready to go.  Will be put into groups tomorrow in preparation for Thursday's debate.

Day 66: In the Shadow of a Nuclear War

Current events: RCMP raises alert levels due to a new ISIS threat.  Solidarity march in Paris.

Cuban Missile Crisis (228/229)

CPH: "In the Shadow of a nuclear war"

• NORAD
• Avro Arrow
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Pearson as GM

Canada's role in the Cold War

Pg 234-237.  #1-5.

Handout Ch 8: A new Era of International Action (do up to "Star Wars")
Time to finish debate notes
Handout: Debate rubric
Current events: Obama Speech announcing normalization of relations with Cuba.  Improving upon policies that need updating after 50 years.

Day 65: Canada's Foreign Policy in the Cold War

Notes: Canada's foreign policy in the Cold War

• Loosening ties with the US
• Trudeau steering foreign policy away from the US.  Similar to sleeping next to an elephant - being "affected by every twitch and grunt"
• Relations with Communist China
• Dismantled/removed nuclear warheads in Canada and Europe.
• A Middle power
• North/South economic gap widens
• Trade and aid.  CIDA.  Trudeau pledges support to poor countries
• SALT 1.  ABMT
• Canada is a mediator between the super powers
• USSR invades Afghanistan
• Star Wars. Strategic defence initiative (SDI)
• Mulroney cancels FIRA for FTA.  NAFTA established in 1994.

CPH: On guard for thee: Suez Crisis, US Military presence, Pearson and the UN

Handout: Chapter 6 - Canada in the post war years. 

• Post war prosperity
• Post war politics

A look at cold war politics in pop culture from the 1980s.

Day 64: Massacre in Paris

Review 1914 to 1945 through political cartoons.

Current events: Massacre in Paris.  Political cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo are killed.

Review of the Korean war

CPH: "Seeing Red" (Pearson, Cold War, Korean War, Red Scare)

Debate prep for next week.
Read Pg 150/151
a) Are weapons of mass destruction ever justified?
b) Is war necessary to maintain/establish peace?

Create a chart (For/Against) for each question.
Debate will be on Thursday, January 15th

A fun activity: learning to draw a cartoon character

Day 63: Aboriginal issues/Cold war

Sharing the journal write with partners

Current events: Canadian Junior hockey team wins the gold medal game vs. Russia

Notes: Aboriginal issues since 1960 (Self government, Berger commission, Land Claim Issues)

Handout: Ch 8 questions.

Review of the Cold war: Superpowers.  NATO vs Warsaw Pact

CPH: Opening vignette.  Who was Igor Gouzenko?

Looking @ spying: Edward Snowden (NSA).  Who was he and what did he do?  Granted asylum in Russia.  Cold War? (Vladimir Putin).

Discussed the Korean War

Terms from the Cold War: Click to Print

Day 62: Residential Schools

Watched PM Stephen Harper's official apology for Residential Schools: Click to play

Watched We Were Children:  Click to watch the screening premier

Today's lesson and journal questions: Click to Print

Social Studies 11 review package (Prescribed Learning Outcomes): Click to print

Day 61: First Nations history in the 20th century

Welcome back!

Brainstorm: what makes you unique?  What if these were taken away?  How would this impact you?  How would you feel?

Handout (group work):

• Cultural extinction
• Land Rights
• In WWI
• Struggle to preserve identity
• During the Great Depression
• Communities in Transition
• Case study - high arctic relocation
• Decades of Action

Topic: Is today's government responsible for injustices of the past? (pg 10/11)

• Chinese Head Tax
• Komagata Maru (Sikhs denied entry into Canada.  Direct passage)
• Japanese internment
• Residential schools

Movie: We Were Children

A look at the tragic impact of the residential school system.