Conditions of Depression

today we did a lecture on the conditions of the depression.  This slide show has a few information slides at the start and ends with Depression photography.

ss11_u4k_conditions_depression

Your assignment is to put yourself in their shoes.  Either write a journal entry, a letter to the government, or sketch your own image of desperation (disrepair) .

Reminder of the video Secret path we watched on residential schools can be found here…

On To Ottawa Trek

Today we lectured on the On-To-Ottawa Trek.

Lecture and guided notes below

relief camps and on-to-ottawa trek SLIDE SHOW

relief camps, on-to-ottawa trek, regina riot note

We also got the chapter questions package for chapter 4 (Depression)SS11_Unit_4__Worksheet.  We will have a chapter 3 and chapter 4 combined test near the end of next week.

We did questions 1-3 today in class (mostly to do with the stock market crash from last week)

1920’s…

Today we talked about some big topics for the 1920’s including prohibition (Vocab included Speakeasy’s, RumRunners, Plebiscite, and Prohibition), the Persons case (links to one of the videos down below) and American Branch Plants in Canada.

Questions 7 – 11 are due tomorrow.

We also watched “America in Color” video.  Its topic was introduction of Cars and Radio’s.

Autonomy chart and winnipeg strike lecture

Today we self-evaluated our Flow Charts from the government unit.  Always a good way to gain knowledge of ones own work habits and creative process.

here is the word document key for the Autonomy Chart Autonomy CHart answer key

And here is the lecture from Monday on the Winnipeg General Strike.  It also has some info on the King-Byng Crisis discussed today (we have not yet done this ppt on the info yet) TWENTIES POWERPOINT

Winnipeg General Strike

Today i lectured on the Winnipeg General strike as an introduction to the 1920s.

Main points included

– Labour Unrest (soldiers were unemployed, low wages, unsafe conditions

– What the One Big Union was

– What they demanded

– Who opposed the strike (Citizens Committee of One Thousand and  the federal government)

– Short term failure but long term success of the strike

You did questions 1-4 in the chapter questions.

If you didn’t present your protest project, deadline in Wednesday tutorial to get full credit for your effort.