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...

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).

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!

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.