History 12-1: Nazi Germany timeline and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws

OK, I redid it and took a pic

We started the day's class by picking up the pieces (literally) of a timeline to allow us to review all that we've learned in this unit.  We even made some connections to Mussolini's Italy.  Here is the result of our work:

Effects of the Nuremberg Laws on Jewish Germans

At the end of the line was Kristallnacht, an event we've not spent much time discussing.  I asked you to use the laptops to find out about the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and then we discussed them. 

I then gave you some time to work on Ex 8; we'll finish in class tomorrow.  

I also issued Ex 9 - please do that one as a homework follow up to today's discussions.

Socials 10-3: The North-West Rebellion

Today we did a recap of the events that led up to the 1885.  We spent some time outlining the differences between Middleton's troops and Riel's Métis.  We watched three segments of the People's History: "The Dispossessed" (about aboriginal dissatisfaction after the Numbered Treaties were signed), "The Siege" (about Duck Lake) and finally, "Batoche." Next class we'll look at Riel's treason trial and then we have only to examine the CPR and the National Policy; then we'll be ready for a review and unit test.  Next Friday is the end of Term Three.  In Term Four we examine BC, immigration to Canada and the turn of the century: that gets you ready for Socials 11 which takes over the story at the beginning of the First World War.  Here are my board notes from today:

Oh, there is no homework.

"The Siege" and "Batoche"

"The Dispossessed"

Socials 8-2: Sharing news stories and intro to Renaissance unit

Today we started by meeting in small groups and sharing our current events research from last week.  Next,  I introduced the Renaissance unit.  We are going to work this unit in a self-paced way.  You will complete an individual inquiry on a topic associated with the Renaissance after the six study guides are finished.  In this way, we will try to individualize your work and give you some additional autonomy.

Socials 10-2: Batoche and Riel's Trial

Today we watched two episodes about the Northwest Rebellion from A People's History: "Siege" and "Batoche."  We used our normal routine of debriefing your "bullet points" but I only asked of a few "volunteers" rather than having everyone share.

My brief sketchnote

Next, we used the following link to access actual testimony from Riel's Regina treason trial: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/riel/rieltranscript.html

The characters we chose to portray

We each chose a witness and then scanned his testimony to get a flavour of the evidence.  Then I acted as the lawyer and students answered their character's questions in turn.  We only had time to hear from the prosecution's witnesses.  We'll hear from the defence on Tuesday.

Our next topic is the CPR and the National Policy (the reading will be pp. 183-191).  After that we will do a unit review and then write our test on "The West." We will be finished all of that by April 11, the end of Term Three.

Socials 8-1: An extra day to finish current events

Today, after the fire alarm upset, we had a small class.  I let students add to their current events assignment and complete any other missing work.  There is no homework.

History 12-1: Dictators' economies

Today we were interrupted at the beginning of the class by the fire bell/incident.  I was impressed by your positive/tongue-in-cheek attitude and absolute lack of whining when we returned to class: thanks! We watched the "Hitler's Germany, 1933-36" video and completed the companion Falk study guide.  We didn't debrief the DeMarco questions: this set was very straightforward.  We ended with the Dictators' Economies ppt.  I've included a copy of the title page and the writing prompt for quick reference.  Please come to class on Monday with your paragraphs and I'll try to get them marked and returned for Tuesday.

Remember to be concise.
Just because I'm a nice guy, here is a link to the PPT Dictators' Economies 

Socials 10-2: The North-West Rebellion of 1885

Today we discussed the Rebellion.  We started by discussing the sketchnote that I had on the board last class and then we re-scanned pp. 192-197.  We discussed the notion of recession and depression as they relate to economics and specifically how economic pressures in eastern Canada encouraged some to try to find a better life out west.  However, the reality for the people in the West was no different.  For example the government had imposed tariffs to discourage cheap American farm from being "dumped" across the border (we'll learn more about that soon regarding the National Policy).

We also watched the segment titled "Land of Discontent" from A People's History.  Here are my notes from the second half of that:

There is no homework but you may wish to start reading pp. 183-191 because that is our next topic before the big unit test! (Term 3 ends in two weeks and I need time to give the test and the re-test).