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The Great Migration and the Push for Democracy
Klassen, Agatha
March 5, 2017
Critical Inquiry Unit Plan
Overview:
Rationale
Unit Organizer
Lesson Overview
Summative Assessment
This unit looks at the impact of the events that happened prior to Confederation. It is
important for students to know that there was a lot of conflict before British North America
became a democratic country. People were migrated to Canada in masses and the impact was
hard on both the people who were living in Canada and to those emigrating, which caused
conflicts. Canada did not suddenly become a democratic country in 1867, people groups had to
fight for their voice and reasoning to be heard and unfortunately had to flee because their lives
were endangered. Students will look at various events that contributed to Confederation and see
the impact an event has on various groups of people. The unit prior is about some migration and
the War of 1812, which leads into this unit of process leading to a democratic country. These
events occurring in eastern Canada can be compared to the later unit of western expansion and
some of the similarities and differences in the conflict and the effects of mass migration.
This unit mainly reflect the perspective of the English and Francophones as well as
Aboriginal perspective. It looks at the different demands from each English and French groups
from the rebellions and pressures and changes the Aboriginals had to go through because of the
conflicts because of the perspectives. Since the Aboriginal perspective is not really talked about
in the textbook they will be added to lesson. Students need to analyze the different perspectives,
whether they are visible or not and think about how they are portrayed in each event.
This unit starts to look at what a citizen and identity is of a country. The values of Britain
are visible through many events. Since majority of the people were coming from Britain they
thought the colony would stay a colony and had no desire for it to become anything else. There
was a minority group, the French who did not want the identity or idea of citizenship of Britain,
they wanted to create their own country. Throughout the unit, students will explore how the two
different groups are trying to define what the identity of a citizens should be and the conflicts
about it. The idea of identity was being brought from Britain which they hoped would be
accepted by both the French and the First Nations.
Throughout the unit, there are quite a few learning activities in which students will have
an opportunity to be act out scenarios and engage in visual and kinesthetic learning. There is
some textbook learning but most of the learning will be done through looking at other sources
and doing activities in which students can take part in their own learning. Most lessons will have
a PowerPoint which will include visual for student learning.
Some consideration that I will have to attend to for daily lessons are starting with getting
all students engaged in the activity. Since the lessons will be taught to two groups of students,
adjusting the lessons for the lower level groups is necessary giving more prompted questions and
provided extra resources for the students to complete their work. Though the two groups will
receive the same instruction differentiation will have to be added for each group depending on
the activity.
6. Canada, L. G. of, Canada, A., Branch, P., Content, W., & Services. (2008,
November 4). ARCHIVED - introduction - in quarantine: Life and death on
Grosse le, 1832-1937 - library and archives Canada. Retrieved March 2, 2017,
from https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/grosse-ile/index-e.html
This is a page of the Library and Archives Canada which has various so sources
such as birth and death records as well as journal and photograph from the Grosse
Ile as it was used for a quarantine stations. This resource will be used for a
learning activity.
7. Johnston, J. (2004). Susannas Quill. Toronto: Tundra Books (NY).
This is a fictional novel based on the life of Susanne Moodie who lived during the
time period of the rebellions and unions in Upper and Lower Canada. This book
intertwines both fact and fiction creating a face and character to the author that
wrote Roughing it in the Bus. This book will be used for instruction, taking parts
of it as examples of life, and inside perspective, during the time period making it
more real for the students.
8. Staff (2017, February 28). Newcomers need to learn Canadian values: Focus
groups. Canada. Retrieved from http://globalnews.ca/news/3278870/newcomers-
need-to-learn-canadian-values-focus-groups/
This is a news story that talks about how immigrants coming to Canada are
encouraged to learn about the values and custom. It is a teaching resource for
students to compare how immigration has changes. In the unit, the immigrants are
trying to push their values and customs on the people living in the country.
Students can compare how different both experiences have different perspectives
and what they are.
Lesson Overview
Week 1: March 6- Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday F
10
Topic and Introduction to The The Great Grose Ile? Why is The Push for T
Question Great Migration: Migration: What Grosse Ile Democracy: Why 1
What challenge of impacts did the important in did people of w
coexistence did the Great Migration Canadian history? British North d
Great Migration have? America want more d
create? democratic g
government? c
c
B
A
Learning Activity Migration singing: Comparisons Digging into the Differences of law V
Divided students between Past. Using creation between C
into three uneven expectations and different history colonial a
groups singing their reality. Discuss the documents trying to government and R
own songs to depict difference between figure out why the democracy by i
the different how people thought event is important having students
perspectives and migrated would be. and the connection enacting both
how migration Pg. 202 cartoon to the Great colonial rule vs
changed the Migration. democracy.
majority
Formative Class Discussion: Comic strip Worksheet that Opinion: Students E
Assessment How was the comparing the students will fill out write their opinion d
experience? What difference between based on their of whether they u
did you learn? expectation versus history documents. think that colonial S
What was the point reality. rule should a
of it? continue or not n
based on the
different
perspectives from
pg. 210-211
Inquiry into History is launching a new project called Foundation of Canada: The Defining
Movement. This is a project that is trying to determine what event in history was the
most impactful that led to Confederation. Inquiry into History is looking for
participants and heard that the Grade 7 students at Irvine School were currently
studying events leading up to Confederation. They want all of you to participate in
their project. Inquiry into History wants to know what event you think was the most
defining or impactful and was the reason Canada become a democratic country.
Topics:
The Great Migration
The Push for Democracy
The Rebellions of 1837 and 1838
The Patriots Rebellion
The Durham Report
The Act of Union
The LaFontaine-Baldwin Alliance
Questions to answer:
When and where did the event happen?
Why did the event occur?
How was it impactful?
How did it create change for the decision to create a democratic country?
Did the event accomplish what it intended to?
Why is the most important event leading up to Confederation?
Once you have done all your research, you will create an informational artifact that you will
present to the director and the class which will include all the important information. The
informational artifact can be a slideshow, brochure, or a video in the format of Heritage
Moments. Once the projects are complete you will present your information to the class in 1
minute.
Student Checklist:
There are several components to this lesson. For each part, you need to check in with the teacher.
1. Chose an event
a. What event do you think was the most impactful?
2. Initial written response
a. What is your reasoning?
b. Write a paragraph about 100 words why you think that this event is most
impactful.
3. Reasoning map
a. Complete the reasoning map and include evidence based on background
knowledge and research
4. Complete question list
a. Have completed the list of questions
5. Chose format for informational artifact
a. Slideshow
b. Brochure
c. Heritage Minute
6. Complete informational artifact
7. Presentation
a. Be within 10 seconds of 1 minute
b. The event must be stated
c. Include argument and reason for your event.
d. Why is it the most important event?
e. What was the impact of the event?
Criteria
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comprehensive thorough awarded
cursory superficial
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explanation of explanation explanation explanation insufficient
historical historical of historical of historical of historical evidence of
context context, context, context, context, student
from acknowledgin acknowledgin acknowledgin acknowledgi performance
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based on the
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Reasoning Reasoning
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate the initial impact of mass migration.
2. Differentiate between emigrant and immigrant.
MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
Index cards
PowerPoint
Slips of paper with songs
Conclusion Time
Think/Pair/Share: Students turn to an elbow buddy and tell them one thing that they
learned in the activity. 2 min
Have a few students share their thoughts with the class.
Assessment
Class Discussion-assess if students can understand the difference between and emigrant and an
immigrant
Think/Pair/Share-assess if students understand impact mass migration had on people coming to
the country
Additional Notes:
Lesson
Class #: The impact the Great Migration Course Social Studies 7
Title/Focus
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
3. Determine the different perspectives of the Great Migration
4. Compare how reality is different than depicted expectations.
5. Understand the initial impact that migration had on the emigrants.
MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
PowerPoint
Blank pieces of paper
PREPARATION AND LOGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Set up PowerPoint
Ensure that all students have paper for activity.
Have a sample of a expectation vs reality cartoon.
PROCEDURE
Introduction Time
Start off with reflecting about the activity from yesterdays class.
What were the different perspectives?
Who was the more dominating group? How did you know? 3 min
What group do you think the more dominating group was from the Great Migration?
How were the minority groups treated?
Who changed through the process?
Body Time
Topic: The Great 7) Ask the question, what challenges of coexistence did the 10 min
Migration Great Migration create?
8) Based on the activity that we did yesterday, what are some
conflict that occurred because of the Great Migration?
9) Have students come up with some challenges. Language,
customs, traditions, laws
10) Read pg. 201- Do you think that people were excited to
move to a new country even though their life was hard?
11) Why would so many people want to come to the new
land?
12) Do you think that there were more opportunities in the
colonies?
13) Britain did encourage emigration, looking at the
cartoon on pg. 202, do you think that as used as an
advertisement?
14) What message are they trying to convey?
15) How realistic do you think the message is? Why?
16) Do you think that advertisement like this were created
trying to convince people to move to Canada?
Conclusion Time
Questions to ask students to end lesson.
How different is expectation vs reality? 2 min
Why would the reality not be depicted to emigrants?
What perspectives are visible in the various images?
Assessment
Class Discussion: Assess if students are understanding the impact that the mass immigration had.
Comic Strip: Assess if students understand how different the reality experiences were compared to
what they were initially depicted to them.
Additional Notes: