September 26

Sorry for the late posting tonight....

Social 10

If you missed class today, I delivered a presentation which covered a "Brief History of French-English Relations". I will be sending this PowerPoint presentation out very soon. I would still like you to reply to the original "ping" message that I sent out on Friday night. If you have a Hotmail account, the e-mail message may have been sent directly to your junk mail folder, so please look for it and respond back. If you still didn't receive the original "ping" message then you need to send an e-mail directly to me. My e-mail address is on this blog. You just need to "view my complete profile" and then you will see a hyperlink to my e-mail address on the left hand side of the website. I also gave you some time to complete gathering information on your French-English relations timelines. This timeline assignment will be due on Monday, October 3rd. Additionally, on October 3rd, I have tentatively scheduled your Regionalism Final Exam (this date may be subject to rescheduling, depending on covering topics sufficiently). It will consist of approximately 60-65 multiple choice questions. The following is meant to act as a study guide of major topics and themes that we have covered during our study of Regionalism:

1. Regions of Canada

• physiographic regions
• climatic regions
• physiographic regions (chart)
• basic Canadian geography (provinces, territories, capitals, rivers and bodies of water)

2. Regionalism

• what is regionalism?
• causes of regionalism in Canada

3. Regional Disparity

• what is regional disparity?
• what causes regional disparity?
• "have" and "have not" provinces
• what does the government do to ease regional disparity?
• shared-cost programs
• personal transfers
• equalization payments
• indicators/signposts of regional disparity

4. French-English relations

• Treaty of Paris (1763)
• Quebec Act
• Constitutional Act
• Act of Union
• Confederation
• Riel Rebellions
• WWI Conscription Crisis
• Quiet Revolution (1960-66)- Jean Lesage
• FLQ Crisis
• Parti Quebecois-Rene Levesque
• 1980 Referendum
• Meech Lake Accord
• Charlottetown Accord-referendum

5. Western alienation

• Causes of Western alienation (root causes)
• Development of Western alienation (Great Depression)
• formation of regional political parties (UFA, Social Credit, CCF/NDP, Reform, etc.)
• regional political party ideas/objectives

Upcoming important dates for Social 10 students:

• French-English relations Timeline assignment is due on October 3rd
• Regionalism Final is on October 3rd (subject to change)

Social 23

Today I distributed three handouts to you. One of which was to accompany the film "The French Revolution: Years of Hope". The other two were assignments. One of the assignments is a letter writing assignment and the other is a research assignment related to the French Revolution. I have not set a due date for either of these assignments, but I will very soon. We watched most of Part I of the film, and we reached the day of the storming of the Bastille, which is what we'll start with tomorrow.