Aboriginal culture and spirituality

You must understand aboriginal spirituality and elements of their cultural expression. It is important to remember their relationship with nature and the concept of the circle of life. Lastly, you should understand the importance of "reciprocal relations" and "gift-giving" within groups and between groups.

Read RED textbook, pp. 13-15.  Complete the handout: 7 questions, fill-in-the-blank, and categorise the statements on the back. Summarise how their spirituality (animism) impacted their culture and cultural expression.

Following this morning's discussion about what are elements of culture and the "irrelevance" of Shakespeare (blue group):

Aboriginals: Summary and Quiz

SUMMARY:
On the back of your first worksheet, you will write a short summary (paragraph) about the stages of the arrival of the first occupants to the territory of Quebec. This does not include the theories about the arrival to the Americas over 30 000 years ago.

The information is found in the textbook: bottom, p.12-15. The information that you are summarising is their stages of arrival - not a detailed account of climatic changes or the available vegetation. Each stage - Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, etc. - requires only a couple of lines with the most appropriate information.

QUIZ: NEXT CLASS
Your quiz will be a short-answer quiz, of about 20 questions. To be successful, go over and study the following:
- textbook, p. 10-11; pp. 16-1;
- class notes (migration theories, Iroquoian, Algonkian, Inuit);
- understand the various characteristics of each group; know which physical regions that they inhabited and how each group adapted to their environments.

If there is something with which you are have difficulty, please see me. It doesn't take long to make information clear!

Sec 5: REPEATER HISTORY

Some information that is pertinent:

As you know, HCE 4 credits are necessary in achieving a Quebec high school diploma. An enormous number of students across the provinces were unsuccessful both last June and in the supplemental August exam. There are about 55 students who could be enrolled in this class at MVHS; this, however, is unreasonable in a high school setting. Therefore, some decisions have to be made.

We are not obliged to offer a repeater history class to secondary 5 students; it is a privilege that the school offers you the opportunity to gain these necessary credits. Thus, there are criteria for being enrolled in the class, which will be discussed further in one-on-one meetings with students.

There are three possible supplemental exam dates for you in 2013: January, June and August. No one has to remain in the repeater class; there are options available to you to help you be successful, should you not be enrolled in the course:

1) An intensive after-school tutorial will be held in November, December and early January in preparation for the supplemental;

2) Ms. Long has resource periods in her schedule. Tutorial can be booked with her, especially in anticipation of January;

3) Distance-education, available through the board;

4) Private tutoring;

5) Do-it-yourself.

Quebec's upcoming election

If you want to understand what the different parties in Quebec are promising, here is a helpful CBC website: political platform navigator.

You may also want to see how you'd vote. Try CBC's Vote Compass!

Some light reading

La Presse, Autochtones: Les Grands Oublies

CBC, The Northern Gateway

Got it-Forgot it!

REVIEW:

First Occupants: Population, settlement, economy, and culture:

- arrived in the Americas approximately 25 000 years ago; crossed "Beringia"; Inuit groups arrived much later;
- first traces of nomadic hunters in the territory of Quebec: 10 000-12 000 years ago
- three linguistic groups, Inuit, Algonquian, and Iroquoian, developed specific characteristics over a few thousand years;
- differing ways of life, social/political organisation, subsistence activities, and trade all directly related to the territories that they occupied;
- shared certain elements (belief in spirits = animism); all hunted, fished, gathered, and traded for items/resources not found on their territory.

*Remember: I-S-M.

Rene Levesque's referendum defeat speech A short, badly edited video from People's History about the referendum of 1980, and subsequent events.