Overall Expectations: CGV.02, CGV.03, CGV.04, CCV.03, CHV.01, SPV.01, SPV.02, MIV.01, MIV.02, MIV.03, MIV.04

Unit Planning Notes

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  Activity 1: preparing the stock market game and a list of economic terms with which the students must be familiar; reviewing with students previously learned skills for note making;
  
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  Activity 2: collecting “artifacts” for 1930s time capsule and preparing organizer chart;
  
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  Activity 3: preparing background lesson on Hitler’s rise to power;
  
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  Activity 4: preparing timeline activity and events to put on the timeline; selecting maps to be used to examine the course of WWII;
  
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  Activity 5: preparing organizer for students to collect information about Canada’s military contributions; preparing a list of questions that students use to examine Canada’s contributions on the home front; preparing an organizer chart for students to present their findings on the impact of the war on Canada;
  
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  Activity 6: meeting in advance with the librarian to set up a time for students to do research for the culminating activity; booking time in the computer lab for Internet research and for preparing the final report; preparing topic lists and questions for the activity; arranging to have a video camera and videotape to record the activity; photocopying Appendix 2.6.1 (and any chosen from web site e.g., 2.6.4 – 2.6.7) for student use.
  

Teaching/Learning Strategies

Whole Group

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  game/role playing
  
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  lecture
  

Small Group

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  reading/note making/presentation/report
  
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  co-operative learning/small group discussion/analysis
  

Individual

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  organizers/charts/maps
  

Assessment and Evaluation

Diagnostic/Formative Assessment/Evaluation

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  self-assessment
  
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  learning logs
  
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  formal teacher observation (teacher checklist)
  
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  student-teacher conferencing (anecdotal notes/teacher checklist)
  

Summative Evaluation

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  presentation/performance (videotaping)
  
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  graphic organizer
  
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  formal written assignment
  

Resources

Print

Approved textbooks

Catholic Register Vol. V 1933-1938, Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto: 1997

Catholic Register Vol. VI 1939-1942, Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto: 1997

Grayson, Linda. The Wretched of Canada: Letters to R.B. Bennett 1930-1935.

Kagan, Elynor, ed. Decades: Forces of Change 1896-1960 (Canada 21). Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Ginn, 1996. ISBN 0-13-239997-0

Kagan, Elynor, ed. War and Peace: Canada’s Global Role (Canada 21). Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Ginn, 1996. ISBN 0-13-459439-8

Mennill, Pauline. The Depression Years: Canada in the 1930s (Canadiana Scrapbook). Scarborough: Prentice-Hall, 1978. ISBN 0-13-199018

Pius XI, “Mit Brennender Sorge” (encyclical – “With Burning Sorrow”)

Santor, Donald M. Canadians at War (Canadiana Scrapbook). Scarborough: Prentice-Hall, 1979.
ISBN 0-013-113514-7

Woodward, Kenneth L. “In Defense of Pius XII.” Newsweek (March 30, 1998). P. 35.

Kits/Videos/CDs

The Dionne Quintuplets. National Film Board of Canada. Title Code: 106C 0178 380 MSN: 13892

Canada at War. National Film Board of Canada (series of thirteen titles) Title Code: 193B 9162 146 MSN: 32854

World War 2: Canada’s Role. Burnaby BC: Classroom Video, 1992.

Kit: Canada’s Coming of Age 1939-1945. Veterans Affairs Canada, 1995.

The 2000 Canadian Encyclopedia, World Edition. CD-ROM. McClelland and Stewart, 1999.

Web Sites

100 Great Events in Canadian History
http://www.tceplus.com/timeline/100events_frame.html

A Priest's Tale: The Evolution of the Thinking of Eugene Cullinane CSB by Bernard M. Daly

http://home.golden.net/~wts/framed.html
(deals with Cullinane’s involvement in the CCF and the church’s reaction)

AsUVA 1930s project

http://xroads.virginia.edu/g/1930s/RADIO/audio_archive/radio/radio.html
(good variety of examples of popular culture of the 1930s [American])

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

http://www.lexicom.ab.ca/~nanton/bcatp.html

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Official Web Site

http://www.warplane.com/

CanPix
http://www.canadianprimeministers.com/rbba.html

Concentration and Death Camps
http://holocaust.about.com/education/holocaust/library/misc/blchart.htm

D-Day Recollections, by Jim Wilkins, The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, “B” Company

http://users.erols.com/wolfy/qor/html/body_wilkins.html

Dionne Quintuplets Archival Collection

http://www.city.north-bay.on.ca/quints/digitize/dqdp.htm
(Excellent site for information of the Dionnes. According to the site, all material is considered public domain)

Engendering Consent: World War II Propaganda Posters

http://web.arts.ubc.ca/history/ww2prop/prop.htm

The Great Depression

http://www2.excite.sfu.ca/pgm/depress.html
(A project by 94/95 Grade 11 students for Heritage Post Interactive about the depression of the 1930s in Vancouver.)

The Great Depression

http://www.authentichistory.com/depressi.html
(An American site but good for cultural influence of US on Canada; has songs which can be played and covers examples of popular culture [sports and radio entertainment].)

Elizabeth Elsie McGill (first woman aircraft designer)

http://www.corpserv.nrc.ca/corpserv/hall/u_i14_e.html
(Some information on technological developments (Hawker Hurricane) and on a woman “first”)

Greatest Films of the 1930s

http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html

The Holocaust Commission

http://www.holocaustcommission.org/index.html

The Hungry Thirties Relief Camps (On to Ottawa Trek)

http://www.workingtv.com/oto/hungry/ecbkgrnd.html

Japanese Air Balloon Bombings Against North America During World War II

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/balloons/

Life on a Western Canadian Prairie Farm

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4850/ZContent.htm

Marion Orr (Canadian Women Pilots)

http://trinculo.educ.sfu.ca/hpost_e/ipost2/4-7/woman.html

Nanton Lancaster Society and Air Museum

http://www.lexicom.ab.ca/~nanton/nanton.html
(The museum commemorates the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.)

NFB Films for 1920-1945

http://www.nfb.ca/FMT/E/cate/H/Histo-Canad-1920-.html

Royal Canadian Legion

http://www.legion.ca/

St. Maximilian Kolbe

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saints/maximilian.html

Thank a Vet Program

http://www.veteranconnect.org/

Unfortunate Canadians During the Great Depression

http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/h15/Level3/page1.htm

Veteran’s Affairs

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar

World War II

http://www.valourandhorror.com

Community Resources

Holocaust Centre, 4600 Bathurst St., Toronto (416) 635-2883

The Royal Canadian Legion, 359 Kent Street, Ottawa, ON K2P 0R7

Phone: 1-613-235-4391 Fax: 1-613-563-1670 or try your local Legion

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Portals -> Draft I film Screening
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