With the train built, the uprising of 1885 squashed, Indigenous and Metis people cleared away and settlers flooding in, wheat became king. There were some issues, like the Manitoba Schools Question, and trade with the United States, but the next big problem was The First World War, also called The Great War. It was a grim war with a high rate of attrition.
Read about life on the Front here. At the bottom of the page there is a link that will read the page to you. Be prepared to ace the quiz afterwards.
On this day women in Manitoba were the first women in Canada allowed to vote, but only certain women. Women though were still not legally considered people till 15 years later.
The scene above is a re-enactment of a show held at the Burton Cummings Theatre (used to be the Walker)
Read the The History of Women's vote (Nellie McClung was from Manitoba, she moved to Alberta later), watch the video clips, and then complete your handout sheet The Right to Vote
Frost-Protagonist, story told through his point of view. Parents recently split, dad lives in Florida, Frost moved to the South shore of the Great Lakes with his mom. He won a writing award
Bench-Frost's first friend at BMS. He plays a lot of sports, but doesn't start. He gives Frost and his friends some crede
DeeDee-A nerd who loves drama. Plays Dungeon and Dragons and roles dice to make all his important life decisions
Wolf-A piano prodigy, so nickname after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He is calm, collected, and the voice of reason
Setting-Not a rich town, and Frost with his new family arrangement is on the lower end of the economic scale. They are now in grade 8 in Middle School
Intial Action-Ruby Sandles has her phone confiscated with an insulting text about a teacher who have her a bad mark. Principal Wittingham has now banned all phones from going past the school office.
The following notes should be in you binder, filed in an easy to find location, and preferably written out by you or at least with your own annotations.
Foreshadowing-A warning of what is going to happen
1. Setting-describe in 2 well chosen words 2. Conflict-Use your note sheet to answer 3. Initial Action is the situation. Explain, remember your answer to number 2 4. Rising Action-When was this the most intense? 5. Climax: The part of the story with the most action/suspense. A little broader in this story. Where does it end? Clue-woof 6. Falling Action: 7. Resolution:
Another writing contest. This one is short. 50 to 300 words on The Meaning of Home. What is special about this contest is that EVERY entry means a $10 donation to Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization that builds houses for those that have a problem affording a place to live. Here is last year winners for the writing contest
HERE’S A CHECKLIST OF THINGS TO LOOK FOR
• Is every paragraph indented at the beginning?
• Do all sentences begin with a capital letter?
• Do all the sentences of your story make sense?
• Does your story have a variety of long and short sentences?
• Is there a variety of words in your story?
• Did you use descriptive words?
• Do you overuse a word?
• Is the spelling correct? (Be careful of words that sound the same
but have different meanings. For example: ‘no’ and ‘know’).
• Will the reader understand what the meaning of home means to you?
Go to this link and look at the picture at the top of an early homestead.
Look closely and study the picture. This a primary source of information. Look closely at the other pictures, they give a lot of information.
Answer below
Read the letter that follows a little below the picture of the early home, at #3. 1. What would be different about a picnic today and one a hundred years ago?
2.What would be still the same?
Read #9
3. An acre is about the size of a soccer field. How long would it take to break it? How much would this cost if you hired someone?
Read #10,
4. What advice does the woman give that applies today to people looking for relationships online?
Thinking and using your general knowledge
5 . What food would homesteaders here on the prairies eat come April?
When done, quietly read the other information on the pages and/or pick up your reading book, and/or onto your writing.
Did you do a solid job in part 1 of describing mood, character(s), setting? If not, get it done. Now as the story progresses, we need some rising action, suspense, mystery, something to hook the reader to keep her eyes on the page.
Due Tuesday, Jan 26, the first 600 words of your story.
Today in the United States they celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Fifty years ago this King was involved in a march in Selma to bring attention to voter rights, which was a recent movie playing in local theatres. One of the participants, John, Lewis, had his skull crushed. A few earlier years earlier, John Lewis was also hospitalized because he was beaten for daring to ride a bus with white people. John Lewis was also was accused by Trump as being all talk, no action.
Above is a song about the event, you might have heard the song. Did you know what the song was about? Why would the state troopers' treatment of Mrs Robinson eventually advance the cause of voter rights?
Persuasive Writing: This is a huge skill to advocate for a change. Ms Carey is doing persuasive writing with you right now. Here is one technique- Near the beginning have an easily identified thesis statement. The use of facts and quotations will help your argument. End with a strong statement.
An example of the structure:
1st Sentence-Attention grabbing 2nd Sentence-Thesis Statement Following Sentences-Facts, Quotations to support your argument. Figurative Language to keep the reader's attention 2nd last Sentence-Restate your thesis. Land Sentence-Finish with a strong, memorable statement.
- Day 2 Today. Tuesday and Wednesday will be Day 3
-MLK Day
-Going onto the First World War in Social Studies
-Commercials, PostIt, Our Survival Story, and possibly a short story this week
-As always, Friday is early entry and hot chocolate
300 Words due this coming Tuesday. Focus on describing the setting, character(s), mood.
Start with the Setting:
Characters and location are introduced.
Let the reader
know what the situation is and who is involved. If the reader doesn’t know or have
any feelings towards your characters, and doesn’t know where the characters are,
then the reader is lost and doesn’t care what happens in your story.
Story needs to be at least a 1,200 words and less than 6,500 words, plan accordingly
taking a field trip to the Museum for Human Rights, you notice a dark funnel shaped cloud. You sound out a warning, but others dismiss you out of hand. A few minutes later everything turns black and your stomach feels as if it is going up in an elevator. The wheels of the bus have stopped making a noise on the pavement and everything starts to spin. The bus is caught in a tornado and is flying through the air! When the bus touches firma cotta it is 55.198626,-98.395293 which is Pisew Falls Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada. As the bus slowly sinks in the swamp, you and your classmates are able to rescue the following items out of the bus.
2 sleeping bags
3 axes
1-200 m. of heavy rope
3 bus tires
1 can of bug spray
2 boxes of wooden matches
1 bar of soap
1 first aid from the back of the bus
2 large wooden poles
1 bus rear view mirror
1 solar powered paper-shredder
12 tooth brushes
1 jar of water purification tablets
1 GPS unit
3 large tarps
4 water jugs
1 radio antenna
200 chocolate bars
100 tins of canned pears
70 apples 3 Rubric Cubes 1 Pamphlet of Cuba
1 rear door from the bus
20 pounds of chocolate
2 hubcaps
3 compasses
1 Leather rugby ball
35 cans of stew
1 roll of toilet paper
1 book of Canadian short stories
1 extra large sleeping bag
1 Book of The Edible Plants of Manitoba
1 large piece of plywood
1 detailed map of Manitoba
1 Ms Woodcroft's Tuba
4 flares
1 Ms DaSilva's big mutt Blue
1 bungee cord
You and your group members are now faced with the task of somehow getting back to 49.883934,-97.275181 - Bruce Middle School, through the remote wilds of Northern Manitoba, in winter. The last words you heard from your teachers before they left in a helicopter is "Good luck getting back home."(The permission form was only valid for a bus trip to the museum, and while that form is still valid, since this is just a detour, there is no permission form for a helicopter ride, and you heard the principal, we need a permission form for a helicopter ride) For the sake of posterity, you will record your adventures. Not all the members of your group may make it back, you yourself may not even make it back to Bruce, but your story needs to be told.
THE PROJECT
This is a project that consists of TWO parts:
I. Class Work 1st Period
This will involve discussions and decisions by your group. With Teacher assistance, you will get into groups, respecting physical distancing.
The group will discuss these things.
A code to live by. Some examples are --Keep Calm and Carry On No One gets left behind (an old Marine saying)
Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten (Lilo and Stich) Pirate Code-He falls behind, gets left behind Share your knowledge and resources Talk it Out Shake it Off No one eats till we all eat
What 100 pieces the group will take with them on their trip from the above list of items saved from the swamp. A piece is 1 of something, so 40 cans of pears will be 40 pieces. Your group must be in total agreement on what 100 pieces to take on the trip
Possible uses on your trip for each of all the items saved from the swamp
How will the items will be carried on the trip?
Using the Handout sheet
Record your group's code
Record what 100 items your group is taking
Write a very brief note for each article saved from the swamp, describing the possible ways that article can be used in your trip back to Bruce and how it will be carried
