This week we finished our Historical Wrongs presentations and presented them to our peers. Students also finished up their Mind Maps on Canadian Identity and submitted these. We also revisited our regions placemats which each of you should have completed on the four main regions and answered the following questions in your original groups:
-Will diversity break up the country or bind it together
-Should Canadians stay in a federation that isn’t perfect?
-Why do Canadians continue to try to get along?
-Why might it be important to understand the issues facing other regions?
Today we delved into the constitutional debates. Ensure you have read pp. 83-85 and have an understanding what a constitution is, how the BNA Act fits in and why Pierre Trudeau wanted to patriate the constitution. Ensure you can define: patriate, veto power, amending formula, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, BNA Act, Sovereignty Association and referendum.
Talked about study skills (see blog post for ideas). Went over and corrected our assessments on Government.
Friday you will continue on with the constitutional debates...keep reading in your text up to page 90ish.
There is a Friday 5 on Friday and a test next Th/Fri.
Mind map assignment in case you need it again:
Copy the skeleton mind map on page 32 onto a blank sheet of paper
-Go through the textbook and find an example to show how each heading might affect Canadian identity. Ensure you define each heading in the mind map as well. (definitions plus examples)
