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.