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!