Thursday, 17 December 2020
Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Winter Celebrations
Finding Information-How many answers can you find? See what you can do and blog your answers below. If you are done early, and good luck, then go back and read in more depth.
1.What is the stirring of the Ashes?
Saturnalia
2. How can the wearing of ugly Christmas sweaters be traced to the ancient Romans?
2. How can the wearing of ugly Christmas sweaters be traced to the ancient Romans?
Winter Celebrations around the World
3.While eating food cooked in oil, what game might you play during Hanukah?
4.What festival is called first fruits?
The History of Christmas in Canada
5.Who is Santa Claus based from?
6.How did Christmas trees become a thing for English speaking countries?
7.What type of pie is traditionally eaten in Quebec on Christmas Eve?
The History of Christmas
8.Who popularized gift giving on Christmas?
9.What day used to be gift giving?
Diwali-Festival of Lights
10.This popular festival is held during the Autumn in India. What is the key ingredient to this Festival to mark the victory of good over evil?
Using your knowledge
11.Why would many cultures from the Northern Hemisphere have winter festivals that feature light, greenery, and food?
12. Christmas hasn't always been popular among Christians. It is now a very popular celebration, but what remains as the big religious day for Christians?
13.Santa Clause has been accused of being a shill popularized by Coca-Cola and other retail cooperation. What is a shill?
14. If you owned a department store, would you go to the expense of popularizing Santa Clause, maybe even having a Santa Clause? Explain.
15. A hundred years from now, Christmas, or our major winter celebration will . . . (give details)
16. Some in our class celebrate Christmas on the 25 of December, for some Christmas officially arrives at a different date. How did we get multiple offical Christmase dates?
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Story Structure-Gift of the Magi
Using either or both versions of the story we have played in class, answer the questions below.
Sunday, 13 December 2020
Coming Up
Book books from the library for Christmas Break
Organize our binders
Ms Carey p3 Monday
p1,5 Tuesday is ornament painting
Finishing up the Book Review projects this week
Christmas history in Canada
More Gift of the Magi and story structure questions
Lost in the Winter Wilds project and lots of cold stories after our Winter Break.
Granddaughter thought he should be kept warm. Later she tucked him in and walked.
Thursday, 10 December 2020
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry was an extremely popular author, who was known for writing short stories that have a surprise ending. The Gift of the Magi is probably his most popular story. Here it is below, in the original text, later we will view a modern short film version, and a version done by Sesame Street.
Story Structure questions, as promised
Remembering about story structure and using the notes we took yesterday, view this classic Canadian story.
Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Parts of a story
Having out the class handout sheet in your binder, which is also here, listen as a class to this classic Christmas story.
As a class, we will answer the questions below. Write them down for your own personal reference.
1. The Setting
2. The Initial Action
3. At least 2 incidents of Rising Action
4. The Climax
5. The Resolution
6. What is the conflict? We will Pick a conflict from the handout sheet and explain
2. The Initial Action
3. At least 2 incidents of Rising Action
4. The Climax
5. The Resolution
6. What is the conflict? We will Pick a conflict from the handout sheet and explain
Monday, 7 December 2020
Coming Up
Notes and Questions on Social Study presentations this week.
Finishing up level C and onto level B for the book review.
Friday-Journal, 10 sentences If you need a starting line 'It wasn't Santa Clause coming down the chimney . . . '
Beach Day, school wide
Monday, 30 November 2020
Coming Up
Last of Social Study presentations
Questions on the presentations
Tuesday-Early Dismissal
Tuesday & Wednesday Ms Carey p4
End of the week, should have at least 50 points on the Book Review
Friday-Journal Due, but it can be handed in earlier.
Going to the Beach Day on Friday Cancelled-School wide pj day
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Coming Up
-Finishing the Social Study Presentations
-Working on Freak the Mighty book review
-Friday is Fancy Dress Day, and of course our journal being due and early hot chocolate.
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Social Studies Projects Facts handed in
Caedyn
Cypress hills massacre Occurred in 1873 June first
Happened in present day Saskatchewan
The place it occurred used to be in North West territories
image of cypress hills from google.
News of the cypress hills massacre didn’t reach Ottawa till late late August 1873
The Cypress Hills Massacre involved a group of American bison hunters, American wolf hunters or "wolfers", American and Canadian whisky traders
Wolfvers are people who hunted wolves and other animals for money
You can still visit the site where it happened
Cypress hills is now a really peaceful park to visit, with a campground nearby
Thomas W. Hardwick and john Evans and the other wolvers lost their horses and assumed it was stolen by the nearby Assiniboine tribe
They visited the tribe and saw that their horses weren't' there
Later they ran into a whiskey trader and got drunk
The next day they went back to the Assiniboine tribe to demand their horses
There horses weren't there, but to prevent trouble, the tribe offered to lend them other horses
This wasn't good enough for the wolvers. Sensing trouble, the women and the children of the village quickly left
The wolvers opened fire and killed 13 people.
One of the results was that the RCMP were formed.
Some were caught and brought to Winnipeg to face trial
No one was found guilty
Lucas
BC joining Canada
John a MacDonald gets BC to join Canada by promising them a railway connecting them with the rest of Canada
20 July 1871 bc joins Canada
Between 1881 and 1885 railway stared getting built
They were promised a railway
They made an agreement that the railway wound must started within ten years
Canada could build the rail sea to sea and so that Canada would be more powerful
Canada became the first country to have a railway from sea to sea
while they were building the railway they found it confusing to follow all the different times of different cities so they made time zones wich lead to standard time
They say that every mile the railway was built one Chinese man died
Bc was reluctant to join Canada because so far away and the mountains in the way
BC had and still has a strong relationship with The U.S., (Seattle) because it is so close and so easy to get to.
Sources
.canadahistoryprojewwwct.ca/1871/
Nico
1877 The University of Manitoba is created
Who/What (describe major people/groups/event/action/activity involved) 1-See above-Focus!
St. Boniface College, St. John's College, and Manitoba College.
1877 When (period it took place, try and be very specific)1-Focus
3 Marks for the above information, 12 marks for the information below
_______How (How it worked, happened, was created/created change) Multiple Marks
Many people worked together to create
It was made from 3 different schools
It worked by having the people from the schools create 1 school board and combine to become
______ Why (purpose/significance of event/action/activity/person) was important. Impact on us today? Multiple Marks
to be a degree granting body
Later became able to do own teaching
Its is now a big university that many people go to
Became the biggest university with student enrollment and campus size
______ Interesting facts and explanations Multiple Marks
It is basically 9 colleges
The first degree was given to a metis student
Jessie holmes was the fist female student
The department of native studies
The u if m sports teams win national chapionships
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/university-of-manitoba
Sephera
1) B.C. JOINS CANADA
2) The British colony`s joined Canadas confederation to make the sixth province.
3) July 20th , 1871.
4) The British colony sent a three-man party to Ottawa to talk about joining confederation in 1870.
5) America was threatening to take land from Canada.
Canada needed help defending against America.
Part of why is making trades easier and get richer as a country.
Canada was afraid America would attack again like they did in 1812.
6) There was a railway linking BC through Canada.
The area where British Columbia is now was populated after the last ice age.
The British colony was made in 1858 to help in the Fraser River Gold Rush.
The ‘Canadian Pacific Railway’ was finished on November 7th 1885.
Canada promised the Railway would be in two years but ended up being almost five years behind schedule.
In 1870 Canada had bought Rupert`s Land and North-West Territories from the Hudson`s Bay compony.
Canada had control over a large amount of land between The Great Lakes and B.C. which eventually was where a railway was built.
Manitoba became Canada`s fifth province on may 12th 1870 after entering confederation.
British Columbia and Confederation | The Canadian ...

Manitoba and Confederation | The Canadian Encyclopedia
Jack
The building of the first railway
The building of the first rail way
The Canadian government is paying to build the rail way across Canada
______ When 1881- 1885
_______How
They hire men to do the work
They had a plan
They made time zones
They moved indigenous people to reserve
They built the railway to get BC to join them and keep Rupertsland
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They hired men from China to do the most dangerous stuff
MacDonald had a great vison to build a rail way across
135 years ago, and stretches 5,000 kilometres across Canada.
Bonfield, Ontario. Was where the first spike was hammered in to the ground
They paid Major Albert Bowman Rogers $5000 to find a rout thru the mountains
The last spike was hammered November 7th, 1885, by Donald Alexander Smith,
The RCMP
_ Formed 1873
Gov. Canada sent police to patrol the new land in western Canada.
Forming of the RCMP
Gov. Canada NWMP/ RCMP
May 3 1873
Formed our national police force
Helped protect our county
Gov. Canada sent police to patrol the new land in western Canada.
150 recruits sent to MB called North West Monted police.
NWMP. Feb 1, 1920 months later gov. Voted merge of the NWMP and the eastern Canada police to the RCMP then rcmp headquarters moved to Ottawa
Supervised rail way building
Then got name North west mounted police NWMP
Dressed in British army uniforms to look British
NWMP played a big role in treaty signing Southern prairies
New prime minister sir Wilfrid laurier wanted to eventually disband NWMP
Facts from:
http://www.explorenorth.com/library/crime/rcmp-history.html
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/royal-canadian-mounted-police
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/prairiehistory/index.shtml
https://www.canadashistory.ca/#
https://ammsa.com/publications/saskatchewan-sage/dont-forget-rcmps-history
Ben
U of M
-The University of Manitoba is Western Canada's first university founded on February 28, 1877 just seven years after the province of Manitoba and only four years after the City of Winnipeg was created.
Was created in the the outskirts of Winnipeg (not now) so they could farm fields to experiment on
Was created mainly to create better farming techniques, especially Wheat>
- The university of Manitoba was created in 1877
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-In 2016 there were 29,987 students attending the university.
-the university of Manitoba is an affordable university
-it is also an university with elite programs
Bryce
Rupert's Land
Rupert’s land was the biggest territory in Canada so far
2. it was also named after a prince; his name was prince Rupert.
3. Red river rebellion was also known as red river resistance
4. another name for Rupert’s land is prince Rupert’s land
5. Rupert’s land stretched one 3rd across Canada so 8 million square kilometers
6. Rupert’s land was where everyone would “trap and trade their furs”
7. Canada bought Rupert’s land for 1.5 million dollars
8. ruperts land was the biggest realistate
9. When Canada bought Rupert’s land it changed from a good size country to the huge country
10. But after a little Rupert’s land got divided into 6 provinces “Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories.”
11. HBC was a fur trading business and since all the fur trades happened in Rupert’s land it makes sense that HBC once owned Rupert’s land
12. HBC now owns nearly 250 department stores in Canada
13. Manitoba was Canadas fifth province in Canada after Rupert’s land perished away
14. Louis Reil owned Canada until he executed an inmate and was being tracked down and hid in States
15. Louis Reil came back to Canada because Metis and Indigenous people needed a leader
Sidney
British Columbia joins Canada
John a mc Donald get bc to join Canada by promising a railway which would connect) join
Bc to the rest of Canada. Railway begins to get buitt between 1881 and 1885 and
Canada could build from sea to sea so that they will have more power. Canada becomes first country to have a railway from sea to sea which will enable them to ship things back and forth across Canada.
July 20, 1871 B.c. finally joins Canada.
Kate
McDonald’s role in building a railway
McDonalds role in building a railway
The federal government and John a McDonald.
February 16, 1881, Canada to 1885 connected Eastern Canada to BC and played an important role in the development of the nation.
Workers drove spikes into mountains, filled the holes with black powder, and blasted through the rock inch by inch. Handcarts moved the drift from cuts to fills.
So that BC would join Canada.
So, Canada could move across the country faster.
The railroad made movement across the country cheap and convenient.
The Canadian Pacific Railway was formed to physically unite Canada and Canadians from coast to coast and the building of the railway is one of Canada's greatest feats of engineering.
The railway brings everything to the north where no railway means no supplies.
Every day Canadian Pacific's 12,000 plus employees work to keep their fleet of 1,000 freight trains moving.
The railway played an important role in the development of the nation.
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