Based on the game we played yesterday and the video and textbook page posted below, answer the following questions:
What is your understanding of the fur trade?
Answer in paragraphs! Use this video: Watch until 2 minutes and 30 seconds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGoVlgcT6tM And this textbook page to help:
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If you were away last Wednesday, we created arguments to answer the question "should humans actively explore and colonize other planets?"
Your argument should be written as two paragraphs, one for each reason. The instructions are below: Debate! Take a Stand! Should humans actively explore other planets in order to colonize them? You are going to create an argument explaining your point of view on this issue. You need at least two reasons that have been fully explained using rationale from what we’ve talked about previously in class and your planet you created. This will go in your booklet! Think of discussions we’ve had about the impact of Europeans on First Nations life, differences in worldview between Europeans and First Nations and our discussion around Orange Shirt Day. Use your understanding of the human impact of colonization from when you created your planet. Use the four-corner format to help you, choose:
Your argument should look like a well-developed paragraph, here is an example: I believe that humans should not be actively exploring other planets in order to colonize them. Reason #1: I think that right now we don’t deserve to abandon earth to go and live somewhere else that is new and pristine. With our current worldview, we would only ruin that planet as well. Often humans think only of themselves and not the impact we have on the environment and ecosystem around us, we worry about climate change only because we know it will impact us in the future. In order to improve ourselves as a civilization we need to think more deeply about what is important to us. Focusing not necessarily on the material things we want in life, but how we can make a difference to the world around us. Reason #2: When Europeans came to North America, they destroyed First Nations ways of living. Most Europeans considered First Nations to be savages or uncivilized and unwilling to look after the land. Therefore, Europeans took it because they believed they were the only ones using the land. They were obviously wrong. What is to stop us now from doing the same thing on another planet with a people we believe are not as “advanced” or “civilized” as us? Will we be able to put aside our own belief system in order to cooperate with the people on a planet? Or will we want to take it and use if for our own purposes and disregard the needs of others. We can’t totally understand the impacts we might have on another planet. The Europeans brought diseases unknowingly to North America, which ended up killing off 1/3 of the population of First Nations. We don’t know what we could do the ecosystem, the people or the planet as a whole. PLANET TIMELINE
Create a 100 year timeline of events on your planet. The timeline should include important events like when the first town was created, who’s in charge (government), any conflicts that take place with humans or other people on the planet. You should also include anything else you feel is noteworthy; you need at least 20 events in the 100 year history. Today you need to finish your rough copy and tomorrow we will put the good copy in your booklet. Here are some tips to help you create your rough copy: 1. Make a list of events to include. - You will want to include the important events for your topic, but also add in relevant interesting events. While your timeline should maintain focus, you want it to be fun for the viewer and show that you understand the topic. ** Include events like: - Personal details such as births, deaths, and other important dates - Historical events that impacted the topic of the timeline - Important events that shaped the topic 2. Decide how many events you want to include. - Keep your events narrowed to a manageable number. You want enough details to show something about your topic, but don’t include so many that the important facts become buried. 3. Draw your timeline. - Sketch out the line using a pencil, then trace over it with a dark pen or marker. Label the timeline with the project title and the boundary years. - Use a ruler please! 4. Choose a start and end point. - You need to set boundaries for your timeline. Your boundaries need to allow you to explore your topic, so start and end your timeline with enough space to cover all of the events. - You don’t have to start with someone’s birth or end with the person’s death. 5. Decide how you will present your events. - There are many ways to display your events, depending on your preferences. You will need to create an entry for each event, and they will all need to fit on the timeline. - Try to include fewer than 20 events. - Write the events. - Draw or use images. 6. Select your time increments. - Depending on the span of time you're working with, you might choose increments in decades, years, months, or even days. Figure out what makes sense for your subject and the number of events you're including. Make the appropriate number of evenly spaced lines perpendicular to the main timeline between your start and end dates. - These time increments are not the years of your events. They are evenly spaced increments, such as five years, ten years, or twenty years. For example, you might mark 1920, 1930, 1940, and 1950, even though your events take place in 1923, 1928, 1938, and 1943. 7. Put the most important dates on the timeline. - Go along the line and mark the spots where the events will go. Draw a line that is perpendicular to your main timeline to show the years in which the events occurred, and write down a short description of each one. - Organize the dates sequentially. The events need to be on the timeline in chronological order, not in order of importance or interest. For example, events listed throughout a year should start in January and end in December. 8. Write clearly and concisely. - Your words need to be easy to read, so write clearly. We have been working in your little booklets for the last two weeks comparing colonization in North America to colonization on your planet you created. So far you should have 6 pages filled. Page 1 - The Purpose of a Colony - Notes on what England and France wanted colonies for Page 2 - Colonization in North America and your planet - Questions comparing your planet to what happened in North America
- Notes about the structure of New France and the Thirteen Colonies Page 4 - Colony Structure on your Planet - Questions about how your planet's colony will be organized.
- Notes about the different roles that are important for the colony of New France Page 6 - People on your Planet
- Questions about what kind of people or roles would be important for your colony.
Here's the next assignment you can complete it and hand it in any time but the official due date is Monday March 12. You need to have your stories read by the end of February. We will talk about organizing your writing sometime in February but if you have questions before then please don't hesitate to ask. The assignment can be downloaded below:
Your task today is to:
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