Richard Riots
Residential School Diary
Go to the CBC’s Stolen Children website and CBC archives A Lost Heritage: Canada’s Residential Schools. Review between three and five clips from the site. After viewing, write a series of three to five journal entries from the point of view of an aboriginal student. Each entry should be correctly dated and be at least half a page in length. The goal is understand what the students experienced and how it might affect them. The entries should reveal the student’s state of mind and explore his or her feelings and fears.
Next, write a paragraph from the point of view of a Canadian finding the fifty-year-old diary. Reflect on what this means about and for Canada. What does this say about Canada? How does this history affect Canadian society?
Overall Expectations:
describe the impact of significant social and political movements on Canadian society
- apply appropriate inquiry skills to the research of questions and issues of civic importance
Trudeaumania
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
Episode 1:
1) What was the reason for the alliance between the United Soviet Social Republic and The United States of America?
2) Construct a T chart to organize the differences between the USA’s and USSR’s political ideologies, economic structure and freedoms.
3) Why was Italy a proxy front of the Cold War?
4) How was the cold war ‘fought’ in Italy?
5) How was Berlin divided after the war?
6) Describe the Berlin airlift.
7) Describe life for Soviet citizens post WWII.
8) What is the historic significance of Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy?
Episode 2:
Why was jazz banned in the Soviet Union?
Describe Nikita Khrushchev’s leadership style.
Why is October 4 1957 a significant date in history?
How did Che Guevara and Fidel Castro use propaganda?
Why was the Berlin Wall constructed?
The End Of Suburbia watch until 15:48
Using the songs provided, decipher and infer what the lyrics say about the social climate and issues of the times.
Describe the zeitgeist capture in the song. Find direct evidence in the songs that supports your inferences.
Do others share the same interpretation?
American Woman
Big Yellow Taxi
Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
Hiroshima
1) Where was the bomb created?
2) Why was Hiroshima chosen as a target?
3) What were the considerations of President Harry Truman for using the new weapon?
4) In Truman's place, what would you have done and why?
5) Was it the right decision to use atomic weapons? Support your thinking with evidence.
Relocation to Redress: The Internment of the Japanese Canadians
1) Define the term internment.
2) Why do you think Japanese Canadian families were forcibly moved from the west coast of British Columbia?
3) Consume the content on CBC Archives Relocation to Redress: The Internment of Japanese Canadians. Record the thought feelings and experiences of the Japanese Canadians.
4) Using the information you have gathered, write a journal entry in role as a seven-year-old child living in an internment camp. Select a date from the year 1943 and write about their living conditions, their schooling, their family situation, and what they think the future might hold for them when the war finally ends.
5) When you have completed your journal entries, we will meet in class groups of four and you will share your entries with one another. Keep track of the similarities and the differences in each of the journal entries. Each group should choose one of the journal entries to present orally.
6) Write a paragraph explaining whether or not young people should have been interned with their parents.
7) Imagine you are a member of British Columbia's Legislative Assembly after the Second World War. This MLA holds a dramatically different perception on the internment of Japanese Canadians than the rest of the government. In role as this MLA, write a one paragraph speech entitled The Enemy that Never Was, in which they will explain why there was never any threat to Canada from Japanese Canadians living in British Columbia.
8) Revisit and Reflect:
Have students present their speeches to their classmates. As they listen, classmates will keep a list of the reasons given to explain why the Japanese Canadians should not have been considered a wartime threat to Canadian national security. After each speech, discuss the reasons presented and whether they are well supported and persuasive.
9) Extension:
Consider the following: could an entire group of people ever be interned in Canada again?
WWII Technological Developments
Guiding Question: Notwithstanding atomic weapons, which World War II technological development had the greatest impact on the war?
Radar, Sonar, Enigma machine, Jerry cans, pressurized cabins, penicillin, V2, jet engines, ….?
1) Research the topics above.
2) For each discover: its development, application and implication.
3) Present your findings in point form with in-text citations and works cited page.
4) Assert which had the greatest impact and support your thinking with evidence.
5) Acknowledge the strengths and weaknesses of the other developments.
Savage Christmas
Analyze the historic significance of the battle of Hong Kong.
Battle of Britain's 70th anniversary marked
Buying on Margin
Stock: A type of security that signifies ownership in a corporation and represents a claim on part of the corporation's assets and earnings.
Stock Broker: An agent that charges a fee or commission for executing buy and sell orders submitted by an investor.
Speculator: A person who trades derivatives, commodities, bonds, equities or currencies with a higher-than-average risk in return for a higher-than-average profit potential. Speculators take large risks, especially with respect to anticipating future price movements, in the hope of making quick, large gains.
Causes of the Great Depression
I. The Business Cycle:
- Economic conditions constantly change, in other words there are good time and bad times, economists call these upswings and down swings the business cycle. There are four basic stages to the cycle:
- Prosperity
- Recession
- Trough, Depression
- Recovery
II. The Great Crash:
- The day the stock market crashed is called Black Tuesday.
- During the 1920's many people dreamed of getting rich playing the stock market. The method seemed simple enough:
- buy plenty of stocks at a low price then sell them when their price is high
Ex: 5000 shares of a company whose stock value is .50 costs $2,500.00 when the stock increases in value for example to 2.00 your original investment is now valued at 10,000. If you sell you make $7,500.00.
- The only problem with this plan is that it requires knowledge, skill and good luck.
III. Causes of the Great Depression:
1. Over-Production/ over-Expansion
- During the 1920's almost every industry was expanding. Large amounts of profits and investments resulted in the expansion of existing factories or construction of new ones. As a result huge supplies of food, minerals, radios, cars. ... remained stock piled. [Soon factory owners panicked and slowed down production by laying off workers. Workers and their families had even less money to spend therefore sales slowed down even more.]
- Industrialists forgot the basic economic rule: only make as many items as you can sell. Wages simply were not high enough to buy all the products made.
2. Canada’s Dependence on a few Primary Products:
- Canada’s economy depended on a few basic products (staples) such as wheat, fish, minerals, and pulp and paper.
- As long as world demand for these remained high, Canada would prosper.
-When the depression hit countries around the world, demand for Canada’s products fell. Fish in the Maritimes and wheat in the West were especially hard hit.
- Argentina and Australia were producing wheat in large quantities the resulting surplus drove prices down. At the same time terrible droughts on the prairies destroyed crops. Farmers could not pay mortgages. Industries such as flour mills, railways, also slowed down without the production of wheat.
3. Canada’s dependence on the U.S.:
- Canada’s economy is closely linked to the U.S. as learned in an earlier chapter. When the American economy got sick, Canada suffered. No longer did Americans need to buy our fish, lumber, wheat, minerals and pulp and paper.
4. High Tariffs
- In the 1920's many European countries recovering from W.W. I. needed our goods however because of their war dept. They often could not afford our goods.
- At the same time many other countries put high tariffs on goods coming into their country to protect home industries. Thus trade between nations began to slow down.
5. Too Much Credit Buying:
- Throughout the 1920's credit buying became more and more popular. With added interest payments many families got themselves hopelessly into debt. If the wage owner became sick or was laid off it was impossible to keep up payments.
6. Credit Buying of Stocks:
- Many people gambled on the stock market in the 1920's. People began "buying on margin". This meant that you only needed 10% of the money you invested, the broker loaned you the rest at a high interest rate. The idea was that as soon as your stocks went up in value, you could sell them then pay back your broker and keep the profits. Unfortunately, stocks do not always go up, in fact they sometimes go down, this is what happened in October 1929.
- When stock prices dropped, people panicked and sold their shares as a result prices fell even lower. Most stocks nosedived more than 50%. Many people were wiped out.
1929 Stock Market Crash
Slang of the 1920s
Greece hit by new general strike over austerity
Objects and Photos of the First World War
Which weapon had the greatest impact on the war and why?
McAdam Shield Shovel
Ross Rifle
Over The Top
The Schlieffen Plan
The Schlieffen Plan was created by General Count Alfred von Schlieffen in December 1905. The Schlieffen Plan was the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise her forces near the German border. The execution of the Schlieffen Plan led to Britain declaring war on Germany on August 4th,1914.
Schlieffen believed that the most decisive area for any future war in Europe would be in the western sector. Here, Schlieffen identified France as Germany's most dangerous opponent. Russia was not as advanced as France in many areas and Schlieffen believed that Russia would take six weeks to mobilise her forces and that any possible fighting on the Russian-German border could be coped with by the Germans for a few weeks while the bulk of her forces concentrated on defeating France.
Schlieffen concluded that a massive and successful surprise attack against France would be enough to put off Britain becoming involved in a continental war. This would allow Germany time (the six weeks that Schlieffen had built into his plan) to transfer soldiers who had been fighting in the successful French campaign to Russia to take on the Russians.
Schlieffen also planned for the attack on France to go through Belgium and Luxemburg. Belgium had had her neutrality guaranteed by Britain in 1839 - so his strategy for success depended on Britain not supporting Belgium.
The Schlieffen Plan's basic were:
a devastating attack on France via Belgium as soon as Russia had announced her intention to mobilise.
a holding operation on the Russian/German border to be carried out if necessary and if required.
Germany had 6 weeks to defeat France.
Germany would then use her modernised rail system to move troops from the French operation to the Russian front.
Russia would then be attacked and defeated.
The Schlieffen Plan was daring but it had a number of glaring weaknesses:
The actions of Russia determined when Germany would have to start her attack on France even if she was ready or not.
It assumed that Russia would need six weeks to mobilise.
It assumed that Germany would defeat France in less than six weeks.
Outbreak of WWI
Why did the Schlieffen Plan fail?
Causes of WWI
Nationalism – intense loyalty towards their own state/country and culture. An example of ultra nationalism would be contemporary skinheads. What would be nationalists view on immigration?
Alliances – agreeing to support one another in the event of an attack.
Imperialism –industrialized nations were scrambling to gain control of or maintain control of colonies. Why would a country have Imperial aspirations?
Militarism – European powers had large standing armies and navies and they desired to show their military prowess. The arms race was a build up of weapons caches where countries worked to out do each other in number and advancement of weapons technology.
War Of Words
Stolen Children: Truth and Reconciliation
Residential School Diary: Go to A Lost Heritage and screen videos. In the form of a journal craft three properly dated entries capturing the thoughts feelings and experiences of a residential school teenager.
The 1995 Quebec Referendum
Habs owner Geoff Molson says speaking French 'very important'
Turning Up The Heat
In The Shadow of Fear
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The 50s and 60s in Song
Search out and present a song and its lyrics, from the fifties or sixties that reflects the social climate and the relationship between individual and those in authority.
Phonetic Alphabet
Progress Reflection
1) What does it mean to effectively use visuals? Is our use of visual effective?
2) Is our signifance statement separate from our 5ws and H?
You may choose to use the prompt:
" _____________ was historically significant because ......."
3) Are our 5ws and H in either point form or paragraph format?
4) Did we use more than one source to find information for each card?
CHC2P WWII Collector Cards
In partners you will produce FIVE collector cards to be presented to the class and displayed in the classroom. Each card will be double sided with a title and picture/ diagram on the front and a description answering the 5 Ws and H on the back. On the back you will also explain the historical significance of each of your choices.
Topics:
Three of your cards must be on the following:
1 card on a Canadian battle – e.g. Hong Kong, Ortona, Dieppe, D-Day, …
1 card on an important Canadian figure during WWII
1 card on technological advancements
Suggested topics for your remaining two cards include: the holocaust, German/ Italian/ Japanese/ British/Soviet/ French important figures, the bombing of Hiroshima, the battle for the pacific, internment of Japanese Canadians, Invasion of Poland,
Research Guiding Questions:
What sources will I use? Be specific. You must use more than your textbook.
How will my cards effective at communicating their content?
Hiroshima
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Maps
Iran Claims To Have Shot Down US Drone
1) Define the term internment.
2) Why do you think Japanese Canadian families were forcibly moved from the west coast of British Columbia?
3) As we view Clip #4 on the topic Relocation to Redress: The Internment of Japanese Canadians on the CBC Radio and Television Archives Web site view be sure to notes on your impressions and thoughts.
4) Using the information you have gathered, write a journal entry in role as a seven-year-old child living in an internment camp. Select a date from the year 1943 and write about their living conditions, their schooling, their family situation, and what they think the future might hold for them when the war finally ends.
5) When you have completed your journal entries, meet in groups of four and share your entries with one another. Keep track of the similarities and the differences in each of the journal entries. Each group should choose one of the journal entries to present orally.
6) Write a paragraph explaining whether or not young people should have been interned with their parents.
LH&P
1) Compare the Allied military campaign and propaganda campaign vis-a-vis the first invasion of Dieppe.
2) How did the Nazis use Dieppe as fodder for their propaganda campaign?
3) What was the function of the Office of War Information and how was Hollywood involved?
4) How were the citizens of France involved with the Nazi's round up of Jews?
Romani
1) Who were they?
2) What was their experience during WWII?
What is in action here?
New York man arrested suspected of bomb plot
Iran expected to face new sanctions from Canada, U.S.
LH&P
1) Describe the blitzkrieg.
2) Why was it effective?
3) How were women portrayed in Soviet and Canadian propaganda? Was this a reasonable representation? Use specific evidence to support your idea.
4) Reich Reconnaissance => Document the social climate of 1930’s Germany and the activities of Hitler and his fascists. Be sure to include the location of the event and the date.
Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I
The Map As History
Over the Top
Click here to begin your World War One Trench experience. Be sure to complete the questions as you move through the activity.
What is this about?
After the turn of the century
In the clear blue skies over Germany
Came a roar and a thunder men had never heard
Like the scream and the sound of a big war bird
Up in the sky, a man in a plane
Baron von Richtofin was his name
Eighty men tried, and eighty men died
Now they're buried together on the countryside
Chorus:
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' out the score
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany
Skies of the Great War
Why was Marconi's invention historically significant?
What was the Canadian connection to the invention?
Navy and air force to be royal once again
Residential School Diary
Go to the CBC’s Stolen Children website and CBC archives A Lost Heritage: Canada’s Residential Schools. Review between three and five clips from the sites. After viewing, write a series of three to five journal entries from the point of view of an aboriginal student. Each entry should be correctly dated and be at least half a page in length. The goal is understand what the students experienced and how it might affect them. The entries should reveal the student’s state of mind and explore his or her feelings and fears.
Overall Expectations:
describe the diversity of beliefs and values of various individuals and groups in Canadian society
apply appropriate inquiry skills to the research of questions and issues of civic importance
Evaluation:
Knowledge and understanding of content
Use of planning skills
Expression and organization of ideas
Making connections within and between various contexts.
Victory in Europe
THE HOLOCAUST
Liberation of Nazi Camps
The Holocaust and WWII
D-Day
Hong Kong
Canadian Recruitment Blitz
In pairs of your choice create and present a twenty second radio script and a poster encouraging Canadians to enlist in the Armed Forces.
Fall of France
Battle of Britain
Hitler Youth
Hitler Youth Speech
Repudiation
Olympic Opening Ceremony 1936
The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Love Hate & Propaganda
Saskatchewan Song
Political Protest in Canada during the Great Depression
1) Define the terms fascism and communism.
2) How did Prime Minister Bennett respond to the rise in support for communism and for fascism?
3) Why were the relief camps Bennett set up ideal training schools for communist agitators?
2) How did Prime Minister Bennett respond to the rise in support for communism and for fascism?
3) Why were the relief camps Bennett set up ideal training schools for communist agitators?
The Great Depression
Explain what happened to cause the stock market crash of October 1929.
What does it mean to be living on the dole?
1) What do you know about the Great Depression in Canada?
2) What psychological effects did the Great Depression have on Canadians, even those who were able to keep their jobs?
3) Do you think the voucher program was a sufficient response on the part of the federal government to the economic problems of the depression?
What does it mean to be living on the dole?
1) What do you know about the Great Depression in Canada?
2) What psychological effects did the Great Depression have on Canadians, even those who were able to keep their jobs?
3) Do you think the voucher program was a sufficient response on the part of the federal government to the economic problems of the depression?
The Roaring Twenties Diagnostic
1) By the end of the 1920s, how many homes in Canada had electricity?
a) 30%
b) 50%
c) 70%
d) 90%
2) In 1925 a Model T Ford cost
a) $675
b) $495
c) $600
d) 725
3) Rank the following cities from largest to smallest population
Toronto
Edmonton
Vancouver
Montreal
a) 30%
b) 50%
c) 70%
d) 90%
2) In 1925 a Model T Ford cost
a) $675
b) $495
c) $600
d) 725
3) Rank the following cities from largest to smallest population
Toronto
Edmonton
Vancouver
Montreal
The Winnipeg General Strike
What are the main causes of strikes in Canada?
In what ways do the interests of workers and employers sometimes differ?
What kind of life do you think returning World War I veterans would have expected in peacetime after the war ended in 1918?
What were the main reasons why many workers in Canada were angry in 1919?
What were the main demands of the organizers of the Winnipeg General Strike?
Why did the leaders of the strike think the strike was a good strategy for them to achieve their goals?
Do you think the federal government was justified in its crushing of the Winnipeg General Strike?
In pairs brainstorm a list of potential headlines for the Winnipeg General Strike
In what ways do the interests of workers and employers sometimes differ?
What kind of life do you think returning World War I veterans would have expected in peacetime after the war ended in 1918?
What were the main reasons why many workers in Canada were angry in 1919?
What were the main demands of the organizers of the Winnipeg General Strike?
Why did the leaders of the strike think the strike was a good strategy for them to achieve their goals?
Do you think the federal government was justified in its crushing of the Winnipeg General Strike?
In pairs brainstorm a list of potential headlines for the Winnipeg General Strike
The Treaty of Versailles
Germany, France, Britain, United States of America.
What would the terms of surrender be?
As your given country, brainstorm what you expect the outcome of the treaty to be.
Canada's part
Oral Histories of the First World War: 1914-1918
Soon you will be asked to create a script for a radio news cast on two major battles of The Great War. You are to begin your research here. Begin with the accounts of the battle of Passchendaele. Be sure to record who is the source of the information and take accurate notes from the interviews.
Next read this while you listen to this with your head phones on. Is this an accurate depiction of the battle? Why or why not?
Next read this while you listen to this with your head phones on. Is this an accurate depiction of the battle? Why or why not?