Canada's First Peoples

Today we are starting our unit on Canadian history. We will be looking at four main parts of Canada's history:

1. Canada's First People
2. Exploration and Settlement
3. Key Events in Canada's History
4. Affect of Settlement on Indigenous Communities

Today, we are going to do a reading activity to help learn a bit about Canada's First Nations Peoples. We will go into much greater detail about this topic in our next unit: Canada's People. For now, we will be taking a brief look at Indigenous cultures before European settlement and exploration. Please keep in mind that the First Nations cultures are many and varied, and that in our brief study, we will only scratch the surface of what is available to be learned!

You will be working with a partner for this task. Each group is assigned a section of the reading to complete and summarize for the class. You will each read your section, then summarize your information on a slide in the team PowerPoint Presentation. Please only edit the slide assigned to your group!

The Reading: https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1307460755710/1307460872523
You should start with this reading, but are welcome to supplement with other sites. If you plan to use other sites, please critically evaluate your sources before using them. See me if you aren't sure! Here is a helpful resource: https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/library/CoreSkills/Website%20Checklist.pdf


The Groups:
Group 1: Transportation
Group 2: Homes
Group 3: Food
Group 4: Clothing
Group 5: Spiritual Beliefs

The Presentation: Put your information here:
 https://lethsd51-my.sharepoint.com/personal/taryn_rodzinyak_lethsd_ab_ca/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?docid=1a0297300d9144e9090c1205da262555f&authkey=AbAFCiW8HnMflQtdsoLm2Zg&expiration=2018-10-25T05%3a26%3a21.000Z

Random Acts of Kindness

November 3rd is random acts of kindness day!

Here is the link to our brainstorming page:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RJc14jgf6NHts5fV5vpZMD1Y4XU19fvwH-d7p_nU9xc/edit?usp=sharing

Canadian Studies- Oct. 17th

1. Finish and print your article summary. We will be going through these as a class on Thursday- you will be sharing your summary and vocabulary words with a small group. For instructions on this assignment, see the previous blog post.

2. Canada's Government- Review and Expansion- Make your way through the website.  Be sure to read each section and try out the accompanying activities. When you have gone through all of the readings and activities, you will create visual representation of what you have learned. This can be a graphic organizer/info-graphic style visual, short page of notes, picture, or anything else that helps summarize the content from today's reading. You make alone or in pairs to create your visual. You will share your visual in class TOMORROW.

3. Homework or Independent Reading

On Tuesday, you will have a quiz on Canadian government. For the quiz, you should know:

Who is the prime minister of Canada?
Who is the premier of Alberta?
Who is the mayor of Lethbridge?

What are the three levels of government?
What are three things the federal government is responsible for?

What are three things the provincial government is responsible for?

What are three things the municipal government is responsible for?

Canadian Studies- Current Events Assignment

Current Events Assignment:

You can choose to LISTEN to or READ a current news article and complete the summary assignment. Directions can be found here: 
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mOJz_QHGfvuvd7vHMucR6WEjUr0ATlUyAcd3yfNO1h0/edit?usp=sharing

The Future of...

Here is the link to your current project:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I_MphTnlPiFHVnI0vet3xPLocoGFBlVQcga5deX4rZA/edit?usp=sharing

*When you get to the interviewing stage:
- You may interview 1 staff member and 1 classmate, but the other 3 interviews need to be outside of ELL class! :) 

ELL- Reading of the Day

Please go to readworks.org and follow the directions below:

Read the assigned selections and answer the questions that follow. :) 

Coat of Arms Assignment

We have looked at several different 'Coats of Arms' in class. Today, you are going to create your own coat of arms. Use the assignment sheet I have provided, as well as ideas (for colours, symbols, styles, etc.)  from the attached files:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwheKgI-JntoRE9obmVyaURYVzQ/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwheKgI-JntoUmJhdHNMa2NydGs

Municipal Election Webquest

Use internet resources to complete the webquest below:

You will need to first download the file below and save your own copy.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CorFwFPZVlFk4lt2rDa6-UTYiJ3nXeFD3niG5sSGkqw/edit?usp=sharing

Here are some websites to help you on your quest!
http://www.lethbridge.ca/City-Government/Elections/Pages/default.aspx

https://www.lethbridgeaccountability.ca/

https://globalnews.ca/tag/lethbridge-election-2017/


When you have finished, you can work on homework...or:

Study up on your grammar here: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/
Expand your vocabulary here: https://www.vocabulary.com/