Sunday, December 8, 2019

Dec. 9-13: Canada & WWI, 1914-1918

Mon.-Thurs.:
FIB notes, 10 & 11. WWI topics:
-European rivalries, Canada's government and its war effort (battlefront in Europe and home front)
-the Conscription crisis, 1917
-results of WWI on Canada
-booklet (red & blue groups): p. 1, map; questions 1-5












WWI: Quizizz
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TUESDAY: LIFT
-Purple group: review

Mid-chapter test: 15% term
10 questions, based on documents
Laurier era (foreign & domestic policy), Second phase of industrialization & WWI

WWI: Videos
9-minute overview of Canada in WWI: click here.
30-minute view about Canada and WWI (with archival footage):


12-minute overview of WWI: click here.

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Nov. 25-29: 2nd phase quiz & notes on social changes

Monday:
-all groups: review 2nd phase of industrialization & finish notes
-correct booklet & comparison handout (posted on the classroom)
-Quiz on Wednesday

Tuesday: LiFT
-correct 2nd phase booklet

Wednesday: Quiz
-all groups: 2nd phase
-12 short answer questions (26 marks)
-study notes & complete review questions, read booklet
-textbook, pp. 130-139

Thursday & Friday:
-all groups: notes about social changes (p. 140-151)

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Nov. 20 & 21: Another short week...

Tuesday: Snow Day
😢 
All groups: finish question #12 in Laurier booklet.

Red group: I've posted the notes from today's class below - especially for those of you who REWRITE notes. Also, I have put you all into LiFT tomorrow.

Wednesday & Thursday:
-notes & booklet: start 2nd phase of industrialization
-return & go over Laurier era test
-Red group: you'll have LOTS to do in Thursday's class




Monday, November 11, 2019

Nov. 11-14: Finish Laurier domestic policy & start 2nd phase of Indust.

Tuesday:
-complete notes on Laurier era
-correct bklt #8-11
-Quiz on Laurier era
-16 short answer questions, 1 map (out of 40 marks)

Quiz topics: Laurier era: Foreign & domestic affairs
-definitions: imperialism, autonomy & xenophobia
-who was Laurier? 
-Canada's role in the British empire & issues of foreign policy
-conflicting views of imperialists & F.C. nationalists about Can.'s role
-politicians who represent imperialism & nationalism
-Laurier's views?
Migration at the turn of the 20th century
-how many? origins of immigrants
-explanatory factors
-results of increased immigration on population, government restrictive measures, Canada's territory

Wednesday & Thursday:
-begin 2nd phase of Indust., 1896-1929

Friday:
Enjoy your ped-day!

Sunday, October 27, 2019

Oct. 28-Nov. 1: Ch. 1 Exam & start of Ch. 2

Monday: REVIEW
-Ch. 1, 1840-1896

Tuesday: Day 4 LiFT - purple group

Wednesday: Ch. 1 Exam
Thurs-Fri:-start ch. 2, 1896-1945

Sunday, October 20, 2019

Oct. 22-25: Finish chapter 1 & unit exam (Oct. 30)

Oct. 21: ELECTION DAY!

Tues.-Fri.: Complete Unit 1
-notes:
-Presence of the Catholic church
-status of women, end of 19th c.

UNIT EXAM: OCT. 30
-50% of the term
-21 questions, based on documents


Friday, October 11, 2019

Tuesday (LiFT)-Fri.: Test & finish first phase of industrialization, 1867-1896

LiFT: It's Social Studies TRUMP DAY on Tues. Oct. 15 (Day 4). I am bringing in my Purple group that day. Bring history notes/notebook.
 
Wednesday, Oct. 16: Test 
Topics: Metis rebellions, Numbered Treaties and the Indian Act
Format: Short answer, chronology & one three-mark causal connection.
Use the questions uploaded to Google classroom to guide your studying.

Thurs.-Fri:
-Finish first phase of industrialization & Maconald's National Policy, 1879



Saturday, September 28, 2019

Sept. 30-Oct. 4: Métis & Indigenous groups + Test

Monday & Wednesday:
-review: political problem of federal interference (textbook, p. 97)
-notes: first Métis uprising (Red River Rebellion, 1869), the Numbered Treaties, 1871-1921, the Indian Act, 1876
-booklet 4: questions 1-6 (textbook, pp. 84-88)

Wednesday: MID-Unit TEST, 1840-1867
-16 questions, 57 marks, 15% of term 1
-format: short answer, multiple choice, chronological order, matching, FIB, identification

Study:
-20 minutes a night
-make cue cards (focus on facts, continuity, change, problems, causes, results)
-go over notes in LiFT.

-textbook p. 30-50 (highlights, documents...); read summaries (bottom of p. 37 & p. 53)
-complete review (back of handout 3); skim through your notes, booklets and textbook & classify important event according to the columns (political, territorial, economic, socio-cultural)

Thursday & Friday:
-review: Métis, etc.
-correct booklet
-start first phase of industrialisation

Friday, September 20, 2019

Sept. 23-27: Problems associated with Canada's growth

Mon.-Tues:
-review Confederation (background, politicians conferences, constitution, territory, federal system)
-handout: map, T or F, division of powers (section 91-92)
-notes: federal-provincial problems (areas of jurisdiction)
-CAUSAL CONNECTION: practice exam question using documents

Wed:
-review, 1840-1867
-quiz?

Thurs.-Fri.:
-problems associated with territorial growth (Metis uprising)

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Sept. 16-19: Quiz & Confederation

Mon & Tues: Quiz
-from Act of Union to Reciprocity Treaty
-those who were absent will write in LiFT on Tuesday

Wed-Thur:
Notes: Background to Confederation
-understand Canada's evolution from colony to semi-independent country
-understand the economic and political problems & issues that led to confederation
-booklet: complete questions #7-10; analyse documents 1-4 on the back.

Life of John A. Macdonald:

Monday, September 9, 2019

Sept. 10-13: Ministerial instability & economic changes in Prov. of Canada (1850's)

UPCOMING QUIZ: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Topics: all notes - Act of Union to Reciprocity Treaty
20-25 short answer questions
1 map


Monday-Tuesday:
Group 01: RED
-review achieving Resp. Gov't
-questions 5-9, booklet
-read documents; start essay
-hand in essay on Wednesday

Group 04: PURPLE
-hand in missing essays & show exemplar of essay
-notes:
(1) ministerial instability; complete qsts #1-3 (new booklet)
(2) end of British protectionism
-homework: pg. 2, new booklet - "Economic Changes" (#1-5)

Group 02: BLUE
-in LiFT: complete essay and hand in
-show exemplar of essay
-notes:
(1) ministerial instability
-complete qsts #1-3 (new booklet)
if there's time:
(2) end of British protectionism

Wednesday:
Group 02: BLUE
Group 01: RED
-review ministerial instability
-notes: Prov. of Canada's economy (changes, problems...)
-classwork: pg. 2, new booklet - "Economic Changes" (#1-5)

Thursday:
Group 04: PURPLE
-review end of protectionism & beginning of British free trade
-notes: complete United Can's Economy
-booklet: correct & complete pg. 2... pg. 3: qsts #5-8.
 

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Aug. 29-Sept. 6: Welcome back & start ch. 1

Thursday-Brome Fair Friday:Welcome back! Have a great year.
-introduction, course outlines, classroom expectations
-if you think you'll see the same notes and booklets... think again! 😀

 Tues-Fri.:
-group 01 & 02: review Lord Durham (p. 9)
-start notes: Act of Union, 1840 - political, territorial, administrative changes
-booklet: p. 1 (map) & p. 2 (Act of Union diagram)
-read textbook, p. 30-32; booklet, p. 3 (#1-4)

Instructions for the Act of Union map, booklet, p. 1:
-refer to p. 30
-label neatly in blue or black pen
-outline in four separate colours, the following:
a. the Province of Canada
b. the four other BNA colonies (maritimes...)
c. the U.S.A
d. Rupert's Land
-label the following bodies of water:
a. the five Great Lakes
b. the St. Lawrence River
c. the Atlantic Ocean
-complete the legend

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Final Exam: Next Tuesday, 9:00 am

Tutorials:
Monday, June 10: morning (2 hours) and afternoon (2 hours)

Exam information:



Monday, May 13, 2019

May 13-17: Social-demographic issues since 1980

REMINDER: CHAP. 4 EXAM
-MAY 28 & 29 

Monday-Tuesday:
-review Indigenous issues
-go over test: diagram & short answer questions.

Wednesday: Blue & Red groups
-notes: social-demographic issues since 1980
-purple group: see above

Thurs. & Fri.
-purple group: see Wednesday

June exam is in June; start studying. It's worth A LOT!.



Sunday, May 5, 2019

May 6-10: Economic issues in Quebec, 1980-present

Those of you who missed class last week need to get the last two printed slides to complete the section on Indigenous rights. This completes the Political issues since 1980.

We have some major topics to tackle. Absences in May will be lethal; studying and classwork needs to be taken seriously. At this point, I've given it my all; if you want to succeed, you'll have to step up.

Mon.-Fri.: Economic Issues
(1) Redefining the role of the state:
-neoliberal policies, funding social programs, social economy and civil society, state neutrality
(2) Globalization of the economy:
Quebec Inc., free trade agreements, export sectors
(3) Devitalization of communities:
-single-industry towns, local services, migrations, next generation of farmers, loss of political weight

-handouts: green booklet (textbook, p. 302-314) & back-to-back FIB notes





Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Apr. 15-19: Quebec's political status, 1980-1995 & Quiz

Monday-Wednesday:
-notes: Referendum, 1980; repatriation of the Constitution, 1982; Meech Lake Accord, 1987-1990...
-textbook, pp. 288-, and booklet, #1-7 for Thursday

Thursday: Quiz
-10-15 short answer questions.
Just the fact, ma'am.

Happy Easter Break, all! See you after the MV trip to Greece!

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Apr. 8-12: Chap. 3 Exam & beginning of Ch. 4

Monday:
-review for chap. 3 exam

Tues.-Wed.
-chap. 3 exam
-red group: extra time starts at 12:45
-absences require official doctor's note

Thur.-Fri.
-start Ch. 4: 1980-today

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Apr.1-5: Finish Ch. 3-Exam next week

Re-take, reminder #2: Quiet Revolution test
-at the lunch bell in my class; if you care, you'll be there!

Monday-Wednesday: Purple-Red groups
-review: constitutional negotiations; indigenous issues
-correct homework: questions 2-5; complete 7-12.
-notes: feminism... employer-union relations

Blue group:
-correct questions: indigenous issues
-notes: employer-union relations
-timeline: politics in Quebec and Canada

Thurs-Fri:
-finish chap. 3

CHAPTER 3 EXAM: April 9-10
-21 short answer questions
-diagram about a period between 1945-1980

21 short answer questions: intellectual operations
-establish facts, chronology, causal connections, situate in time or space, goals, cause & consequence, make comparisons, establish connections, before and after, continuity & change, determine explanatory factors, differences and similarities...

Topics include:
-Duplessis era, 1944-1959
-consumer society
-role of the Catholic church
-Quiet Revolution, 1960-1966
-political social economic changes & results
-language laws
-goals of neo-nationalist political groups in Quebec in the 1960's
-changing social attitudes in the 1960s and the impact on women and women's roles, etc.
-Indian Residential Schools... indigenous groups

-historical actors: Duplessis, Jean Lesage, Bourassa, Rene Levesque, Pierre Trudeau
-immigration: changes, etc.

Reminder: you need a legitimate reason for any absence (legal, medical...).

Monday, March 18, 2019

Mar. 18-22: Results of the Quiet Rev. & TEST

Mon-Thurs:
-notes: Impact of the Quiet Revolution
-complete booklet up to #16, as well as the two summary questions (19 & 20)
-read about "neo-nationlism" in second booklet
-return: long-answer-essay (Quiet Rev.) and go over in class (Ms. V's version)

Friday: Test
-study the following:
-notes "The Quiet Revolution"
-review major concepts (see below)
-go over textbook, pp. 224-237; read the "summary" on p. 239


The test?
-19 short answer questions (4-page booklet); out of 35 marks
-define/explain: "Quiet Revolution" and "welfare state"
-Economic: gov't interventions, measures, goals, its role, results... (5)
-Social: measures implemented, Labour Code, 1964 (health care, education... 6)
-Effects: on the church, on Quebecois (openness, opportunities...) Expo 67, new language laws, neo-nationalist political parties in Quebec (FLQ, October Crisis...)





Sunday, February 24, 2019

Feb. 25-Mar. 1: Not quite a full week...

Mon.-Tues.: 
finish development of suburbs & impact of American culture, 1950's-1960's
-notes & finish booklet

Wed.-Thurs.:
start Quebec's "Quiet Revolution," 1960's
-txtbk., pp. 224-232
-essay & test, Quiet Revolution AFTER the March Break

Have a great March break!









 Changes after the Quiet Rev.
-txtbk., pp. 233-239


Saturday, February 16, 2019

Feb. 18-22: A full week! Complete Duplessis & Quiz

Mon-Tues: Finish Duplessis
-printed FIB notes are ready 
-Duplessis, pt. 1: econ. liberalism, & regional dev. (June exam causal connection; practice question, red group); provincial autonomy...
-Duplessis, pt. 2: traditional values, health & educ. funding, opposition to D.
-booklet: complete up to #17; work on REVIEW sheet...

Map, booklet p. 6: Refer to p. 213, and the map below
-in blue or black pen, label Nouveau Quebec, Cote Nord,  Schefferville, Gagnon, Port Cartier, Sept Iles; in red, draw in the two railway lines. Identify the particular mineral resources around Gagnon & Shefferville. Give the map an appropriate title; include a legend.

Quiz: Short answer questions (15-20)
Tuesday: Blue (02) & Red (01); Wednesday: Purple group (03);  
-Cold War, Canada's arctic, social struggles in America, Duplessis...
-notes, booklet, textbook, p. 209-213

Wed.-Fri.: Social changes
-population growth
-urbanisation
-consumer society


Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Coming up...

We've started Ch. 3 - touched on the Cold War and we've started the Duplessis period, 1945-1960.

Friday, February 1, 2019

MID-YEAR EXAM: STUDY!

Friday, Feb 1: BRING YOUR NOTEBOOK & TEXTBOOK HOME THIS WEEKEND!

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Mid-year exam: Next Monday (Feb. 4)

MID-YEAR EXAM: FEBRUARY 4, 2:00, in the cafeteria
ABSENCE = 0
-chapter 1 & 2 (1840-1945)
-18 regular short-answer questions (34 marks)
-1 diagram question (8 marks)
-1 two-paragraph "essay" (8 marks)
=45% of term 2

REVIEW FOR CHAPTER 1:
-Act of Union & achieving Resp. Gov't
-Economic policies in the 1840's (change, results...)
-ministerial instability, 1850's
-Great Coalition to Confederation, 1867 & its territory
-two Riel Rebellions
-Indigenous Canadians after 1867 (reserves, Indian Act, 1876)
-immigration to BNA & Canada
-First Phase of industr. (defining characteristics, facts, industries, changes...)
-Catholic church (role in Quebec, ultramontanism, anticlericalism..)

REVIEW FOR CHAPTER 2:
-Laurier era: Canada's autonomy, immigration & territorial growth of Canada...
-social change: women's struggles, urbanization...
-WWI, Great Depression...

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Jan. 21-25: WWII & test (STUDY!)

STUDY FOR CHAP. 2 EXAM: 30% of TERM 2
FRIDAY, JAN. 25
-see previous posts for more information
-textbook overview, p. 192-193
-review questions, pp. 195-198

The exam is out of 40 marks and has 21 short answer questions:
-currents of thought (various nationalisms, 3), Laurier era (2) immigration (3), women-feminists' demands (2), 2nd phase (3), WWI & WWII (4), Godbout's governments reforms (2), social changes (2), cultural changes in the 1920's (1)
-chronology, demands-measures, causal connections, before-after, identify facts, points of view, change
1 diagram - specific time period

Mon.-Tues: WWII
textbook, pp. 178-188
-situation in Europe, 1930's
-war-time gov't
-war effort: men & women
-1942, "conscription" plebiscite
-demobilization

Wed: Go over G.D. essay
REMINDER: USE ONLY THE DOCUMENTS PROVIDED:
-writing the element (topic sentence)
-supporting it with facts (second sentence).

Monday, January 14, 2019

Jan. 14-18: Interwar years (Roaring Twenties, Dirty Thirties!)

Mon-Tues.:
-Notes (FIB): Mass popular culture (radio, cinema, professional sports, "cabarets" & Fr. Cdn. novels)
-complete question 1 & 2 (handout)

Tues.-Thurs:
-Notes (FIB): The Great Depression (trigger, cause, socio-econ. problems, political results)

Thurs-Frid.
Essay: Great Depression...
-notes: challenging capitalism - new political parties & ideologies

STUDY FOR YOUR CHAPTER EXAM! 
JANUARY 25!


Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Jan. 8-11: WWI, video & ch. 2 exam info.

Tues.-Thurs.:
WWI and the Canadian perspective: European rivalries, Canada's war-effort at home and the battlefront; the Conscription crisis and the results of WWI.
-FIB notes
-booklet: question 1-5; complete handout.

Midyear exam:
-review booklet for chapter 1

Friday:
Mass culture: radio, cinema, Fr-Cdn novels, professional sports
-FIB notes
-handout


Ch. 2 exam: 30% of term II - January 25:
-Concepts: 
-power, territory, economy, society, culture; imperialism, liberalism, urbanization

-Topics:
-Skim text, p. 116-187 and read the summaries;
-Remind yourself of major topics: see list included in the first booklet (Laurier);
-Read over class notes. Yes, there are many. Luckily, you started reviewing & studying before x-mas when you found out about this exam!

Part I: Laurier period, summary p. 129 (Eng. imperialism, FC nationalism, autonomy, Boer War, Canadian Navy, immigration to Canada, French minorities, Indian Residential schools...)

Part II: Second phase of industrialisation, summary p. 139 (resources, industrial sectors, regions of Quebec, econ. liberalism, foreign investment & trade, infrastructure)

Part III: Social changes, summary p. 151 (unions, Catholic social action, urban growth & problems, education system, women's struggles & gains)

Part IV: WWI, summary p. 163 (European alliances & rivalries, wartime government, war effort, conscription crisis, 1917, return of soldiers, Canada's autonomy & Statute of Westminster)

Part V: Inter-war period (1920's & 30's) summary p. 177 (mass culture, Great Depression, challenging the capitalist system, FC nationalism)

Part VI: WWII, 1939-1945; summary p. 189 (wartime gov't, war effort, military forces, women's contribution, demobilization of soldiers).

If you want to review:
-Read p. 194. Answer questions 1, 2 on p. 195 (autonomy, Great Depression)

-Ace the Exam: Read the documents on p. 196-197. On your loose-leaf, identify important 
information about each document; then answer the corresponding questions on pg. 198.