Course Resources
Course Outline
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Mr. Wilkinson’s e-mail address: sean.wilkinson@yesnet.yk.ca
Course file folder
FINAL EXAM: Friday, 24 January 2014, 13:00-15:00 in the gym
Capstone Project Suggestions
Tests
Your Unit 1 test is on Monday, 16 September. Practice Test. How to Answer a Test Question.
Your Unit 2 (Geography of Canada) test is on Monday, 30 September. Practice Test. To study, read your classmates’ blog posts and pages 16-32 of the textbook.
Your Reassessment Opportunity for Unit 1 (Thinking Like a Historian) is on Friday, 4 October.
Your Unit 3 (Fur Trade) test is on Tuesday, 16 October. Test Preparation Worksheet. How to write a “identify and state the significance” response.
Your Unit 2 (Geography of Canada) re-test opportunity is on Friday, 25 October. Practice Test. To study, read your classmates’ blog posts and pages 16-32 of the textbook.
Your Unit 4 (Revolution and Reform) test is on Wednesday, 30 October. Test Preparation Questions.
Your Unit 5 (Confederation and the Canadian Federal System) test is on Tuesday, 26 November. Test Preparation Questions.
Your Unit 6 (Expansion and Resistance) test is on Monday, 16 December. Test Preparation Questions.
Your Unit 7 (Post-Confederation Society) test is on Thursday, 16 January. Study Guide.
Assignments & Due Dates
Who Discovered Klondike Gold? (Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Source Analysis): Friday, 13 September. (Grading Scheme).
Physical Geography blog post: Tuesday, 24 September. Grading Scheme.
Completed Projects.
Simon Fraser journal analysis: Friday, 11 October.
Political Philosophy Essay: Thursday, 31 October. Robert Baldwin, William Lyon Mackenzie, Francis Bond Head, Louis-Joseph Papineau, George-Etienne Cartier, Lord Durham, Mary Ann Shadd. Easy guide to essay writing. Grading Scheme.
1837-1838 Primary Source Analysis: Friday, 25 October.
15 Fevrier 1839 – Film Reflection: Thursday, 31 October.
The Canadian Federal System: Thursday, 14 November. Sample Presentations: Dambisa Moyo, Hans Rosling, David Christian
The Three Bears: 29 November
“Was Louis Riel a Hero or Traitor?” – Paragraph
Chilcotin / Tsilhqot’in Uprising: Evaluation of Historical Significance
Chinese Experience Paragraph: Friday, 20 December
Vancouver Race Riots response: Friday, 17 January
Readings, Slides & Handouts
Unit 0. Prologue
A whirlwind tour of North American history from the first humans to 1815
Unit 1. How Historians Think
Why Study History?: Lecture Slides, Guided Notes. Optional Additional Resources: Vancouver Race Riot, Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
Unit 3. The Fur Trade
The Cordilleran Fur Trade: Slides
Simon Fraser: Encounters with the Other: Slides
Metis Ethnogenesis and the Red River Settlement: Guided Notes
Unit 4. Revolution and Reform
The Political Economy of Upper Canada: Slides, Guided Notes
Black Canadians: Horizons pages 59-62, Contemporary poetry by Wayde Compton. Mary Ann Shadd Case Study: A Plea for Emigration, Dictionary of Canadian Biography Article, Provincial Freeman letter, History of the Provincial Freeman
Rebellions (or revolutions?) of 1837-1838: Quick video on the American Revolution, Horizons 65-67, 70-74 Primary Sources
Durham Report: Slides, Guided Notes
Unit 5. Confederation and the Canadian Federal System
Confederation: Canada: A People’s History, The Botheration Scheme
Platforms of Yukon Political Parties: NDP, Yukon Party, Liberal Party, Green Party
How Canadians Govern Themselves
Unit 6. Expansion and Resistance
Three Narratives of Canadian Expansion: Slides, Guided Notes
Northwest Rebellion: Slides, Guided Notes
The Far West: Horizons 206-219
The Colonization of British Columbia: Case Study: Eslh7an: Slides, Guided Notes
Emergence of Vancouver: Horizons 227-230. Do question 3 OR 4b on p230. Then answer the question: “which of the themes from our Colonization of British Columbia: Eslha7an lecture do you see reflected in the wider history of Vancouver told in your textbook?
Unit 7. Post-Confederation Society
Primary Sources on Chinese Canadian History
Emily Carr: Representing the Other. Slides, Guided Notes.
Residential Schools: Slides, More In-Depth Slideshow (not shown in class), Guided Notes
The Laurier Years & Canadian-American Relations: Horizons 244-247, 250. Questions: page 247 #1,3. page 250 #1,4.
Vancouver Race Riots: Tyee Article, Primary and Secondary Sources 1, 2.
