April 21

Humanities 8

Today the Literature Circle Unit was introduced. We read the first couple of pages of the "Puppeteer's Apprentice" and I modeled the roles for students.  Next students signed out their novels and they had a group meeting to figure out how many pages to read per week and the roles for this Friday.

English 10

Students were asked to record the answers to the following questions:

Who do you respect?

How do people earn respect?

Next we read the chapters:   Grandmother Gives Me Some Advice, Tears of a Clown and Halloween.

After reading those chapter, students were asked to respond to the following question:

Who does Arnold respect the most right now?  Why?

First Nations 12

Students were given a handout about the goals of colonization and a list of terms to know for the exam.  The terms will be collected for marks and can be handed in as flashcards or recorded on a sheet.

Flashcard Creation Review Assignment

Chapter 4 & 5

Task:  Create flashcards or a review sheet with the following information in preparation for your test.

1.       Maritime Fur Trade – items of trade, how it was conducted

2.       Land- based Fur Trade –items of trade, how it was conducted, HBC, NWC

3.       HBC blankets

4.       Smallpox

5.       Intermediaries

6.       Medium of exchange

7.       Christopher Columbus

8.       Juan Perez

9.       James Cook

10.   Chief Maquinna

11.   Colony

12.   Colonialism – main goals

13.   paternalism

14.   Epidemics

15.   Gunboat Justice

16.   Precedent

17.   Pre-emption

18.   Aboriginal title

19.   Sovereignty

20.   Terra nullius

21.   James Douglas

22.   Joseph Trutch

23.   Lhatsas?in

24.   Fraser Canyon War

25.   Tsilhqot’in (Chilcotin) War

226.   Douglas Treaties

27   Country Wife

28.   Impact of the Fur Trade

29.   Royal Proclamation 1763

Suggestions:  Read the chapters for a full understanding.  Re-read the notes.  Revisit notes

Reminder:  Test Thursday!!!