Thursday, May 10, 2007

May 10

Wow, it's been a bad week for the blog. I missed posting on Monday and Wednesday, which is pretty unusual for me. Sorry for not responding to comments either. We're getting into a busy time of the year, so I'll try to be more active on the blog.


We continued our Rights and Responsibilities unit today, by doing a comparison between the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We'll continue our examination of the Charter tomorrow in class. I also returned your essays to you at the beginning of class. I will be running your Government unit final answer sheets through the scantron machine again, and I'll be able to give you the results of that test tomorrow.


For most of the period, you continued working on the "Events of World War II" booklet, and then we were able to watch the first part of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" which covers the Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy in northern France.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

mr g. what do parlimentary pages do? and also can cabinet and cabinet ministers be the same thing?

Kevin Gilchrist said...

mr g. what do parlimentary pages do? and also can cabinet and cabinet ministers be the same thing?

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Parliamentary pages do a few different things. First, they hand out the daily agenda booklets to each MP in the House of Commons. They are also responsible for passing messages from one MP to another (they help pass notes). The Cabinet is the PM and all of the Cabinet Ministers together, so they are not the same thing.