Locally Developed Canadian History
Course Description: This course focuses on the key people, events and themes in Canadian History from World War I to the present. Students explore a variety of topics paying special attention to individuals and events that have contributed to the story of Canada. The major themes of Canadian identity, relationships, and changes since 1914, are explored through guided investigation. Students have the opportunity to continue to develop critical thinking skills with a focus on identifying and interpreting events and making connections to the modern world. Students practice reading, writing, visual, and oral literacy skills, and mathematical literacy skills to identify and communicate ideas in a variety of forms.
Unit 1
Canada Comes of Age: 1900 – 1918
Unit 2
Becoming Canadian: 1919 – 1939
Unit 3
A Country to Call our Own: WWII – Vietnam
Being Canadian: Seventies – Today
Unit 5
Historical Inquiry and Skills Development
Unit 1
Canada Comes of Age: 1900 – 1918
- The Canadian Identity
- Cities – Industrialization and Urbanization
- World War One: Military Life and the Home Front
Unit 2
Becoming Canadian: 1919 – 1939
- The Treaty of Versailles
- The Roaring Twenties
- The Great Depression
- Rise of Hitler
Unit 3
A Country to Call our Own: WWII – Vietnam
- Battles of WWII
- Holocaust
- The end of the War – Nukes, Nuremburg
- Fabulous Fifties and the Baby Boom
- The Cold War
Being Canadian: Seventies – Today
- The Hippie Generation
- Relationship with the US and the World
Unit 5
Historical Inquiry and Skills Development
- Exploring methods of the historical inquiry process and historical thinking
- research and literacy skills, with a focus on digital literacy
- Formulating questions, gathering and organizing data, interpreting and analyzing data, evaluating and drawing conclusions and communicating those conclusions in a variety of format