Wednesday, May 03, 2006

May 3

I showed you a video entitled "Trench Warfare" today. I also wanted you to read in Chapter 13 the following pages 234-241. I want you to take point form notes on:

  • the Western Front
  • the Eastern front
  • Trench Warfare

I am also sending you a chart that I would like you to complete for Friday.


You wrote your second Pop quiz on Politics and Government today. We then talked about "first past the post" and "proportional representation". There are a few websites that I would like you to visit tonight. The first one is part of the CBC website, which might help you see which Canadian political parties you agree with most. Please click on the link here to go to the Vote By Issue Quiz. There is no way for me to tell if you ever actually visit this site, but I stronger encourage you to do so anyway, you might learn something about the political issues that you feel are most important and you'll get to see if the major parties do as well. Next, I would like you to create a chart of the Election 2006 party platforms. For each of the parties, I want you to write down one or two bullet points on their positions on various issues, ranging from Health to the Environment to National Defence. Here is the hyperlink for this homework assignment. It's due on Friday.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Spiderman, Spiderman...
Posts a post faster then anyone else can...
[Spiderman is a bit off-beat today]

Anonymous said...

oh no i did the voting test. french are the 2nd highest NOOO. well i did get Conservatives first. im having an identity change already...

Anonymous said...

Ahhhhhhh.. where are the FAQ's under the young voters? anyone?

Anonymous said...

Try the hyperlinks on your assignment.

Anonymous said...

surprise... according to the voter quiz i agree with the NDP more.

Anonymous said...

They arnt working but ill keep looking...

Anonymous said...

according to the quiz i am BLOCQUEBECOIS!!
then NDP!
odd.

Anonymous said...

SS 20-4
I'm a little confused about the chart, for, "location of battle front," does it mean the location where they dug the trenches?

Anonymous said...

im conservative, closing followed by the Bloc and im anti-NDP,
WOW!

Anonymous said...

How do you find the answer to this question: "Who were the candidates in your riding in the last general election?"

Anonymous said...

Who were the candidates in your riding in the last general election? --> where is that?

Anonymous said...

I ran into that problem as well whoever said that they couldn't find the running candidates of your riding in the last general election. But if you click on the section in the top of the web page of Elections Canada, you should find a heading called 'Past Elections'. Click on that and then click under 'general elections', '39th General Election-Jan 23, 2006', then click on 'downloadable list of confirmed candidates-39th general election' and then finally on 'Alberta'. Hopefully you know your riding because then you should be able to locate all of your running candidates for the last election.

Anonymous said...

thank you

Kevin Gilchrist said...

SS 20-4 question: Yes, that's what that means.

Anonymous said...

can u plz shove someone into our group? The project is alot of work for 2 people

Kevin Gilchrist said...

I'll see what I can do for you.