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Whoot! Whoot! Grade 7's will be participating in a reenactment of The Battle of the Plains of Abraham next week! In order to understand how this battle went down, there is some background information you need. If you were away today or missed some of the notes, here is a copy donated by a very kind student who wants to help you out! You will also be completing the assignment below over the next two days. Use 1759.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/index_en.html for the first half. And bataille.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/en/siege-de-quebec/quebec-cle-de-voute.php for the second. You will need to see your teacher for a regiment and role - discussed on Thursday and Friday. Today we edited your four paragraph essay in class. You self-edited and peer-edited, then you needed to hand in your good copy. You need an: - Introduction - 2 body paragraphs - Conclusion If you were unable to finish, you need to have that ready for tomorrow. Here is an example of an introduction, body paragraph plans (you will have these written into paragraphs) and a conclusion. The introduction tells the reader a little bit about the topic and some background information. You also need to state your answer to the question (shown in orange. The conclusion restates your argument and sums up what you have said in your body paragraphs. Today we worked on the rough copy if an essay you will be writing on whether or not social media is a good place to find information on and debate social and political issues. Use what we've already talked about in the debate and your answers from Monday. The rough copy needs to be done for Tuesday, when you will have time for peer editing and review. Also, HAVE AN AWESOME SUPER LONG WEEKEND WITH YOUR FAMILY!
Your social media posts are due tomorrow so we can make comments on peoples posts. The rubric is below. Next week we will have a debate that explores the question: "Is social media a good way to learn about and debate political and social issues."
We used your maps today to look at Acadia and the Great Deportation as one of the beginning events of the Seven Years War between France and England.
Here are the notes if you were away: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-deportation-of-the-acadians-feature/ The map you started today needs to be done for tomorrow. Here is the one we put on the board to help with the last section.
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: 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. |