FRENCH Grade 8 Canadian History Bundle 1850 – 1914: Teachers are provided with 28 in-depth lessons to help their students explore and understand this era of Canadian history on Confederation, Western Settlement and Development, and Canada A Changing Society. This unit integrates Language Arts (Reading, Writing, Oral, Media), History, and Art subjects. Student pages are in FRENCH, teacher pages, and answer keys are in ENGLISH.
- Individual PDFs of each student page are included for use with Google Classroom™.
Includes These Units:
A. Création du Canada (1850-1890)
B. Une société en évolution (1890-1914)
Curriculum Alignment:
- Ontario Social Studies Curriculum Grade 8 Strand A and B
- New British Columbia Curriculum Grade 9
- Alberta Social 7 Curriculum
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Resource Includes:
- Detailed unit plan, answer keys, and assessment rubrics
- Detailed teacher and student directions
- Interactive note-taking graphic organizers
- Assessment for, of and as learning breakdown
- Lessons divided up with title pages for easy access
- Student assignment choice and variety-
- Detailed teacher and student directions
- Q-Chart to help students formulate good questions
- Inquiry stations research folder cover pages
- Inquiry station cards with detailed instructions
- Inquiry station graphic organizers to help students with their research
- Oral presentation assessment rubric
- Historical content assessment rubric
- Differentiated assessment formats
Students must gather information and research for inquiry themselves from textbooks and other non-fiction sources. Research is not included.
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- Strand A Lesson Outline
1. Why Do We Study History?
2. How Did We Get Here?
3. How Has The Map of Canada Changed?
4. Life in British North America Prior to 1867
5. Fathers of Confederation Monologues
6. Politics in the Province of Canada
7. John A. Macdonald Personal and Professional Life
8. Confederation Advertisement Assignment
9. The Pros and Cons of Confederation
10. The Charlottetown, Quebec and London Conferences
10B. Missing Voices at the Confederation Conferences
10C. British North America Act
11. Confederation Unit Test
12. Primary Source Analysis Videos and Photos
13. Legal Documents
14. Settlement of Western Canada Inquiry Stations
15. Manitoba Act 1870
16. The Indian Act 1876
17. Louis Riel Obituary Assignment
18. Canadian Pacific Railroad Lyric Analysis
19. Canadian Pacific Railroad Assignment
20. Primary Source Analysis, Video, and Creative Writing – The Gold Rush
21. The Chinese Immigration Act 1885
22. The Arctic and Indigenous Case Law
23. Numbered Treaties
24. Residential Schools
25. Video Review
26. Western Canada Unit Test
- Strand B Lesson Outline
1. Settling Canada Top 10 Events
2. Primary Source Analysis
3. Historica Minute Videos
4. Canada A People’s History Video
5. Interactive Timeline
6. Changing Map of Canada
7. Important Canadians QR Codes
8. Important Canadians Readings
9. Changing Society Inquiry Stations
10. Primary Source Analysis Assessment
11. Legal Issues and Changes
12. Class Newspaper
13. Changing Society Unit Test
