Finish NF's fur-based economy & attempts at diversification

Monday and Tuesday:
Finish notes: NF's economy
Complete booklet: 5W's of a coureurs, mind-map (impact of fur trade on all aspects of NF), F-I-B, and economic diversification of NF during the 1660's and the 1730's (homework)
Study for mid-year

Wednesday and Thursday:
Start economy during the British period

Friday:
Board wide mid-year exam, 9:00 (25% of term II)
 

This week: NF's economy

Homework for Tues/Wednesday classes: Blue sheet, re. mercantilism, resource exploitation, trading-post colony, allies & rivals, territory of NF by the mid-1700's

Quiz (Wed, Thurs):
-Aboriginal "economy" and "organisation" of territory
-arrival of Europeans (fishing, trade, beginning of fur trade)

NF's economy:
-follow-up on mercantilism, triangular trade (last week)
-examine fur-based economy
-examine attempts to diversify NF's economy
-examine the local economy: agriculture & crafts

Thursday, 24 February:
-tutorial after school (4:00-5:30) in D417 in preparation for the mid-year exam, if enough of you would like
-arrive with questions about topics or concepts that are unclear to you
-buy bus pass or arrange a pick-up

Mid-year exam, February 1:

Content: 
Examining two social phenomena-
1. Population & Settlement: First Occupants, French regime, British rule, Contemporary Canada
2. Economy & Development: First Occupants, French regime, British rule

Format:
2 parts-
1. 15 short answer questions (10 from one social phenomenon; 5 from the other)
2. 1 essay question (on the phenomenon with the fewest questions)
All questions and essay are document-based.

Intellectual operations being evaluated:
-establish facts
-situate in time
-characteristics of an historical phenomenon
-make comparisons
-determine explanatory factors and causes
-determine elements of continuity and change
-establish connections between facts
-establish causal connections

February 1: Mid-year test

Content:

The following two social phenomena and sections will be examined:

A.   Population and Settlement:

First occupants, French regime, British rule, Contemporary period

B.    Economy and Development: 

First occupants, French regime, British rule

Format:

The exam is divided into 2 parts, according to the social phenomena above.   - The exam includes 15 short answer questions, 10 from one social phenomena, and 5 from the other. - There is one essay on the social phenomena with fewer short answer questions - All questions, as well as the essay, are document-based

THEME II: ECONOMY & DEVELOPMENT

PRE-CONTACT: ABORIGINAL "ECONOMY"
To understand:
-the subsistence activities of the First Occupants;
-trade networks, items of trade (corn, meat, etc), importance of trade, pre-contact;
-how subsistence activities affected territorial organisation (villages, camps) and social organisation (division of labour).

CONTACT: EUROPEAN ARRIVAL

To understand:

-contact between European fishermen and Aboriginal groups

-goods exchanged

-impact of contact on Aboriginal society and economy

Class work:
-discussed aboriginal subsistence activities
-textbook, pp. 147-152
-completed handout - notes, reading, questions (added a #4)

*REMINDER: MID-YEAR EXAM IS STILL SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 1, 2013.