Wednesday, halfway through the week

 Thank you for leaving the school promptly yesterday for early dismissal. 

Job 1-Yearbook entry. I gave feedback to those who sent something in yesterday. Read your feedback and resubmit. Thank you for your work.

Past Due-I have emailed the students about missing journals and missing facts for the research project.  

Next week-Back at school or not, we will be doing our history project presentations

You are now class expert on you topic and will educate us.  


You will try for  a 2 1/2minute speech (150 seconds) with about 10 pictures for your presentation.

(like the demonstrations I have given in class.)



Things to focus on:
1. Why they/are/it is famous.
2. Impact on today’s society?
3. How they/it advanced science/technology/literature/government/other?


You will be marked on the following:
1. The information presented.
2. Information being presented in an interesting manner.
3. Pictures used (make them relevant).

History Project Example

 

Step 1 READ

Step 2 Choose a Topic

Step 3 READ some MORE

As you do step 3, you should be gathering lots and lots of facts and sources. Once you have scores of facts put down, with their sources, then we need to organize the facts. 

Here is my example for The Battle of Vimy Ridge

Step 4 Gather Notes (15 marks)

______ Title (name of event/person/activity,and your name) 1 mark-Keep focused on the topic
-Canada conquering Vimy Ridge
_______Who/What (describe major people/groups/event/action/activity involved) 1-See above-Focus!
-Canada fighting for the first time as a Canadian Army with Canadian leaders attack Vimy ridge
 ______ When (period it took place, try and be very specific)1-Focus
-The Attack happened on Easter Weekend, 
_______How (How it worked, happened, was created/created change)Multiple Marks
-Canadian soldiers, besides fighting for the first time as a -country, used new tactics. See Below 

-Extensive planning and mapping of the area with planes

-Practicing the battle plan 

-Letting the soldiers know the battle plans

-Creeping barrage where the soldiers followed closely behind the shells

-Very heavy barrage before the attack

-Canada succeeded during the weekend of fighting with about 10,000 causalities (about 3,000 of those dead)
 ______ Why (purpose/significance of event/action/activity/person) was important. Impact on us today? Multiple Marks
-Vimy Ridge, being high land, was seen as being strategically important. The importance of the Ridge to winning the war was probably overstated.

-The Allies didn't have much success in the War to this point.

-France had 150,000 causilties themselves trying to take Vimy Ridge from 1914 to 1916.

-With this success, Canada became the soldiers that the Allies heavily used in attack and the soldiers the Germans most watched out for. 

 ______ Interesting facts and explanations Multiple Marks

-Vimy Ridge land was given to Canada by the French

Big beautiful monument is on the Ridge, which is a Canadian Park.

-The war monument was one of the few Hitler didn't have destroyed when he captured France. It seems he liked it. 

-General Byng was the British officer looking over what the Canadians did (couldn't trust the colonials to be completely unsupervised) later changed his name to 1st Viscount Byng of VIMY and became the G.G. of Canada

-Byng's Wife, Lady Byng, created the Lady Byng Trophy

_______Sources!!!! Have more than one, and be careful when picking your sources. 

Wikipedia is not a bad place to start, but isn't a good reference because it is every changing. It does list sources though, so consult those! 

https://www.warmuseum.ca/the-battle-of-vimy-ridge/

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vimy-ridge

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/fact_sheets/vimy

https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/vimy-ridge

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/the-great-war-battle-of-vimy-ridge

https://www.cobourgmuseum.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/VimyCompressed.pdf

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-germans-considered-it-a-victory-too-rare-images-showing-everything-you-didnt-know-about-vimy-ridge

History Project

 First, a topic needs to be picked

The land of Manitoba predates any person, more of that history here. 

The oldest people history here is obviously from the Indigenous people, and we sadly don't have much of that history. Read here for more information. 

A timeline of some major events that happened in our province in the last 400 years is here. 

A timeline of some major events that happened in Canada's history

Some Famous Manitobans 

Some Famous Canadians

Step 1 READ

Step 2 Choose a Topic

Step 3 READ some MORE

Step 4 Gather Notes (15 marks)

______ Title (name of event/person/activity,and your name) 1 mark-Keep focused on the topic

_______Who/What (describe major people/groups/event/action/activity involved) 1-See above-Focus!

 ______ When (period it took place, try and be very specific)1-Focus

_______How (How it worked, happened, was created/created change)Multiple Marks

 ______ Why (purpose/significance of event/action/activity/person) was important. Impact on us today? Multiple Marks

 ______ Interesting facts and explanations Multiple Marks

_______Sources!!!! Have more than one, and be careful when picking your sources.