Family History Assignment

The following outlines the requirements for the personal history assignment you will begin now. The purpose of this study is to get you to immerse yourself in the process of writing history and experience firsthand the challenges faced by the historian. In doing so, you will be a better reader of history - as you will be able to examine historical writing with a more critical eye. Hopefully, you will also learn something more personal about the history of Canada through your family experience. Lastly, you will be introduced to some of the practical methods of historical research; another important aspect to being a discerning reader of history.


There are some general parameters to remember when doing this assignment:

• use standard margins (don't change the page margins in Word)



• use 12 point Times New Roman



• text pages are typed, single spaced



• use standard paper 8 1/2 x 11



• the project is to be submitted in a duo tang folder (no three ring binders)



• pictures and other items may be included by will NOT count as part of the page requirement as outlined below
  
  

The Assignment...

• Overview



• Family Tree



• Personal History



• Family Spotlight



• Your Family History and Canada

Overview


This section should be about half a page long and should offer a synopsis of your family history. In this portion of the assignment you will discuss how many generations you were able to track, what you will be focusing on in your personal history, and who you will be spotlighting in your family and why.


Section Value - 10 marks (7 marks for the written work, 3 for a relevant picture or family artifact such as a coat of arms)


Family History


This section should cover at least a page. You may choose to use a fold out page if 8 1/2 x 11 paper provides you insufficient space. This is your family tree. Have the most recent generation at the bottom of the page and work up from there. You will want to include everyone. Find an organizationally efficient and consistent manner for doing this. I have provided you with a few examples below to get you started. There are others available online.


http://genealogy.about.com/od/free_charts/ig/genealogy_charts/


http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/09/create-family-tree-charts-inside.html


Section Value - 25 marks (5 marks for neatness; 10 marks for effective and clear presentation of information; 10 marks for depth and breadth of research)




Personal History


This section will include your personal history. This is the first place where you are going to have to make some tough decisions about what you will include and what you will not have the space to write about. You should begin either at birth or over the nine months of your mother's pregnancy, whichever you prefer. You should end at present day - our entry into your current grade. This section may not exceed two pages and may not be less than one and a half pages.


Section Value - 35 marks (5 marks for spelling; 5 marks for organization; 20 marks for content; 5 marks for grammar)




Family Spotlight


This section features a selected member of your family whose story you are going to tell. You may want to focus on a particular momentous event that they were involved in or you may deem their full life story worthy of coverage. Although you have already stated why you have chosen to spotlight the individual selected in the overview, you are required to do it here again. However, this time your explanation should be in greater detail. Devote a short introductory paragraph at the outset to this task.


This section may not exceed two pages and may not be less than one and a half pages.


Section Value - 35 marks (5 marks for spelling; 5 marks for organization; 20 marks for content; 5 marks for grammar)




Your Family History and Canada


This section represents the closing of your project. It is not a summary, as the overview already provides a place for that. It is part reflection and part application. You are to reflect on what you have learned about your family history and apply it to help you make some sense of Canada's history. Think about how your family history fits into the Canadian experience and what you think Canada is about and what it stands for. What are the values that are inherent in our national thinking and how does your family experience fit into that? This section may be no longer than a page and no shorter than three quarters of a page.




Section Value - 20 marks (5 marks for spelling and grammar; 15 marks for content)


Total Value - 125 marks


Due Date - Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at the beginning of class


You will have two work periods in class in which you will have additional support from me. The dates are as follows - Friday, February 18 and Friday, February 25.

You will be graded on the following on those dates:


General Progress 10 marks

Work Ethic 10 marks

I am available to discuss this project outside of class if you make an appointment. Otherwise, the remainder of class time will be used for progressing with the course

What is History, Dammit?!?!

Our first activity was for you to consider the following:

What do you think is the most important event in Canadian history?

Who do you think is the most significant individual in Candian history?


You were also asked two follow-up questions:

What is history?

How do you define "significant" or "important"?


We briefly discussed some of the answers that students had written and why they had chosen the person and event that they did. We discussed the difference between history being considered as all the events of the past versus the events and people who had a major influence on the majority of people.

As an example, we considered the relative importance of the diary of a Canadian soldier who had landed and survived Vimy Ridge and the importance of the diary of his mother.

Through this, we uncovered that there was some merit to studying the history of the ordinary person, often referred to as social history. See the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_history

Conversely, the history of "significant" people or events may be described as political history. For more information, see the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_history


There is an age old battle between political history advocates and social history advocates in terms of which interpretation is the more correct or accurate one. In essence, this is the constant battle that goes on in the mind of the historian as he goes about his work - What is and what is not worthy of study?

To begin with, you are going to embark on a social history study -- one that looks at the history of you and your family. The details of this will be presented to you shortly. For now, start thinking about it and talking about it at home so that you will be ready to work on the assignment when we begin.

As well, we talked about the difference between primary and secondary sources. A primary source may be defined as an eyewitness account or direct, first person version of events. A secondary source is an account (like a textbook) that makes use of many different versions of events. They may be both primary and secondary in nature. Your research into your family history is an example of a primary activity.

Welcome to the Start of Semester 2

This blog will be used as a means of keeping track of what we are doing, when we are doing it, and sometimes where we are doing it.

As a result, it will include all relevant course material and timelines. In the event that you are away, the blog will be quite useful to help you keep up to date.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CHECKING THE MATERIAL HERE.

Hey... Just To Let You Know

We have completed nearly to the end of Unit 3 in the review. Be prepared to finish Unit 4 on Wednesday.

The Great Gazoo....Errrr Review

Below you will find the Canadian History Exam Review.









It is included here, as Rod Serling would say, "For your enjoyment and edification."





You can choose to do it or ignore it at your own peril. Oooooh. Threatening, isn't it?





This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone and, of course, the review...











Canadian History – Exam Review

Unit I: The First Peoples of Canada:

1. Explain some characteristics of early aboriginal societies:

a. What does it mean when we say that aboriginals lived in a Matriarchal society?
b. What does it mean when we say that aboriginals were an “oral” culture?
c. Explain some examples of how early aboriginal cultures were governed by spirituality?

2. Who were the Iroquois? Generally what European group did they form an alliance with? Who are the Huron? Generally what European group did they form an alliance with?

3. What is meant by “First Contact” between the “Old World” and the “New World”

a. Discuss the effects or outcomes of first contact between the early Europeans coming to the “New World” and the aboriginal groups already living on the continent.

b. Explain how what happened at first contact shaped the relationship between aboriginals and Europeans in general.

Unit II: New France: (1500s – 1759)

4. Who were the Jesuits?

a.What other names were they known by?
b.What was their main goal in coming to New France?
c.Discuss how their relationship with various aboriginal groups is symbolic of

Aboriginal – European relations?

5. What is the Seigneural System?

6. In what ways was the fur trade important to the development of Canada? In what ways did it shape the course of early Canadian history?

7. What was the Battle of the Plains of Abraham

8. Identify and discuss the various factors that led to the fall of New France to the British? Why was this one of the most important events in early Canadian history?

9. Discuss why General Wolfe led a brilliant military attack on the French in the final battle for control of Canada. What mistakes did the French leader Montcalm make in this final battle? Explain the Battle for the Plains of Abraham in full detail.

Unit III: British North America (1759 – 1867)

10. What was the Royal Proclamation Act of 1763 and what did it do?

11. What was the Quebec Act and what did it do?

12. Identify and explain three reasons why the people in the Thirteen Colonies began rebelling against British rule, ultimately leading to the American Revolution?

13. What was the American Revolution

a. When did it begin and end?
b. Who was it fought between?
c. What position did French Canadians take in this war?
d. What did the American Revolution result in?
e. Why was it considered a civil war?

14. Who were the Loyalists? Identify and explain four ways their arrival in Canada impacted and/or shaped early Canadian culture and life?

15. What is an Oligarchy? Name the Oligarchies that existed in Upper Canada and Lower Canada?

16. What is responsible government?

17. Explain what lead to the 1837 rebellions in both Upper and Lower Canada?

a. What did the people rebelling want?
b. Which rebellion (Upper or Lower Canada) had racial or ethnic overtones? Explain.

18. Describe the background and results of the Rebellions in both Upper and Lower Canada, making specific reference to the impact that Lord Durham’s report had on Canada.

19. Who were some of the earliest immigrant into Canada?

a. Why did so many Irish immigrants come to Canada prior to the 1850s?
b. What was the Underground Railway? What did it result in?
c. Why did so many Chinese immigrants come to Canada?\

Unit IV: Canada in the 19th Century (1800s -1900)

20. Who was John A. Macdonald?

a. Why was he called one of the “Fathers of Confederation”?
b. What was his major project?
c. What was the Pacific Scandal?

21. Identify and explain four major factors that led to Confederation?

22. What was Confederation?

a. Identify the first four provinces to join Confederation?

b. What year did Confederation take place?

c. What province was initially at the Confederation Conferences but then pulled out of Confederation becoming one of the last provinces to actually join?

d. What year did Manitoba become a province and join Confederation?

e. When did B.C join and why did they finally agree to this?

23. What does the CPR stand for?

a. What year was the famous last spike completed?
b. What immigrant group built the majority of railway?
c. How did the railway lead to the opening of the west?
d. What effect did the opening of the west have on aboriginal groups living on the prairies?

24. Why was the construction of the CPR such an important event in the history and development of Canada? Identify and explain five reasons.

25. Who was Clifford Sifton?

a. What types of immigrants did he encourage to come to Canada?
b. What were immigrants given to help them settle the west?
c. What was the experience like for many of the early immigrants that came to settle the west?

26. Who was Louis Riel and why was he a significant figure in Canadian history? Provide an overview of his life and explain his legacy in Canada?

Unit V: Canada in the 20th Century (1900s):

27. Describe how Canadian society had changed by the turn of the 20th century?

Consider things such as:

a. Industrialization
b. Urbanization
c. Immigration

28. Who was Wilfred Laurier? Why is he an important figure in Canadian History?

29. World War I:

a. Between what years did this war take place?
b. Explain the causes that lead to the Great War and how they led to the outbreak of World War I, making specific references to country alliances in your answer.
c. What is Trench Warfare?
d. Why was the First World War such an important war for Canadians?
e. Identify the significance of the Second Battle of Ypres, the Battle of the Somme, and the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
f. Explain the effect World War I had on women and the first wave of women’s rights?
g. Explain the impact World War I had on Canada. How did it bring us together as a country? How did it tear us apart?

30. The period between the First and Second World Wars brought about many changes in Canadian society. Identify four important events or changes that occurred in the interwar years and explain their importance to Canadian society.

31. What was the Winnipeg General Strike? What year did it take place?

32. What was the Great Depression?

a. What were some causes?
b. What was the triggering event that began the Great Depression?

33. Explain how Canada’s immigrant policy has changed from prior to the 1900s to during and after the World Wars? What brought about these changes? Explain in detail.

34. World War II:

a. Between what years did World War II take place?
b. Identify some of the causes of the Second World War.
c. Identify and briefly explain at least four major events that occurred during World War II?
d. Discuss the injustices faced by Japanese Canadians after the attack of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Include in your discussion how Asian discrimination throughout Canadian history led up to this event. Explain what happened to Japanese Canadians during the Internment years? What has happened as a result of this event?

Mini-Unit I: Aboriginal Issues:

49. Define Assimilation. Identify and explain five specific examples of aboriginal assimilation seen in Canadian history.

50. What were residential schools? Explain in detail.

51. What was the Oka Crisis. Explain in detail what happened at the Oka confrontation. How does this event express the relations between Canada and Aboriginal communities throughout history?

Mini-Unit II: Canadian Government:

52. Define Federalism.

53. Describe the division of power and responsibility in the various levels of the Canadian government, providing examples where possible.

54. Be able to Explain structure of the Canadian Government.

55. Who is the current Prime Minister of Canada?

Mini-Unit III: Modern Canadian Issues:

56. Identify and explain at least four examples of where conflict or misunderstanding between English and French Canadians is seen in Canadian history.

57. What was the FLQ Crisis – Identify the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and be able to explain the historical significance of this event.

58. Who was Pierre Elliot Trudeau? Why was he such an important and controversial Canadian figure? Explain in detail some of the controversial political moves that Pierre Elliot Trudeau made.

59. Who is Rene Levesque? How did sovereignty-association differ from separation?

60. What was the Quebec Referendums – When did they occur? What were they? What were the results of the referendums? Why were they significant in Canadian History?

In addition, you will be required to know the importance of the following terms:

Quiet Revolution
Lord Durham
Indian Act
Battle of Ypres
Stock Market Crash
NATO
Charlottetown Accord
Official Languages Act
Brian Mulroney
Cold War
Filles de Roi
Nellie McClung
Valour Road
Free Trade Agreement
Meech Lake Accord
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Iron Curtain
Lester B Pearson
D- Day
Gold Rush
Mercantilism
HBC
Louisbourg
Conscription
Treaty of Versailles
Sterling Lyon
Paul Henderson

Canada and World War I

Use the resources located at the site below to build two presentations:

• A presentation outlining the causes of WWI
• A presentation which details some aspect of Canadian involvement in WWI

THE PRESENTATIONS ARE DUE MONDAY, JANUARY 17,2011.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/

Your presentation should encompass a 4-5 minute delivery. Please note*** we will NOT be presenting these. You will drop these in the drop box.

You are expected to use a combination of primary and secondary sources. Be sure that you have done this. In total, each presentation should have at least EIGHT different sources.

In your presentations, ensure that you have touched on some of the following...

1. What years did World War I occur between?
2. World War I is also known by these two titles?
3. What countries made up the Allied Powers?
4. What countries made up the Central Powers?
5. Where did much of the fighting in World War I take place?
6. What is “no man’s land”
7. What event caused the beginning of the First World War?
8. Describe what is meant by Trench Warfare.
9. In April what did the Germans use for the first time in battle?
10. Why was the Battle at Vimy Ridge important for Canadians?
11. What was the German U-Boat threat?
12. What year did the United States enter the war? Why did they finally decided to join?
13. What is significant about the date November 11th?
14. What is Conscription?
15. What was the Conscription Crisis of 1917 and what effect did it have on Canadians?
16. List five new technologies developed in World War I?
17. How did the war effect Canada’s national identity?
18. How did the war affect women?

Also, try to fit in material on the following

* Christmas truce on the Western Front

* World War I propaganda

* Images of World War I

* Valour Road

* The origin of Winnie the Poo


Your presentations will be graded using the presentation rubric used throughout the semester and the degree to which you meet the parameters outlined above.

Change in Course...

Mr. Neufeld will be overseeing the class until the Christmas break. In that time, he will be covering the period from 1945-1982. We will step back and cover Canada at the turn of the 20th century and World War I after Christmas, as we have covered the material prior to these events. As students have handed in their essays, it will also be a good opportunity for us to pick up with our work in that area. Finally, we will be working on a review for the exam.

Mr. Neufeld has already distributed an overview of the material that will be covered, which is available on the network in the Canadian History pickup folder. Below, you will find the topics that will be covered and the corresponding pages from the textbook where you may find this material.


Module 1 – Moving Forward

Topics:
• The Tragedy of Africville – p 492
• The Bill of Rights – p 493
• Unemployment Insurance – p 521
• Health Insurance – p 521
• Pension Plans – p 522
• Canada Assistance Plan (CAP) – p 522
• Women’s Social Action Groups – p 524
• The Government Chooses Multiculturalism – p 595
• Employment Equity – p 596


Module 2 – Establishing and Promoting Canadian Culture

Topics:
• Canadian Culture on the Brink of Destruction? – p 530
• Strategies for Change (The Massey-Levesque Report) – p 533
• The Great Flag Debate – p 549
• Expo ’67 – p 553
• The National Film Board (NFB) – p 546
• The Development of a Canadian Music Industry – p 541
• The Birth of Television in Canada – p 542
• The Struggle for Canadian Content – p 542
• The Growth of the Canadian Film Industry – p 543


Module 3 – The Cold War

Topics:
• The Gouzenko Spy Case – p 470
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – p 471
• Korean War – p 472
• Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line – p 473
• North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) – p 475
• Avro Arrow – p 475
• The Cuban Missile Crisis – p 477
• Canada’s Role in the UN – p 479
• The Suez Crisis – p 481


Module 4 – A Country Divided

Topics:
• Newfoundland as Canada’s Tenth Province – p 482
• The Quiet Revolution in Quebec – p 483
• Aboriginal Peoples Challenge the System – p 486
• Immigration and the Beginnings of Multiculturalism – p 489
• The Developing Idea of Canadian Citizenship – p 491
• The October Crisis – p 566
• Bilingualism – p 569
• Royal Commission on the Status of Women – p 571
• Western Alienation – p 574