HISTORY

MANIFEST DESTINY

American Civil War took place between the North states ( The Union) and the South (the Confederacy).
They fought over whether slavery should be legal.
 The US Civil War is from 1861-1865.
Slavery was abolished in 1833 in all the British colonies.
The North  and the South disagreed about slavery.
The South liked slavery because the work was done for free and they did not have to pay their workers. They felt their economy depended on slavery.
The North disliked slavery because;
1. Southern states could sell their products a lot cheaper than they could.
2. Slavery was wrong. It was wrong to exploit or take advantage of someone for one's own benefit.

BNA supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. The Union was worried about attacks from the borders of BNA.
Confederate agents used Montreal and Toronto to plot against the Union.
The Union was more powerful than the Confederacy.

Manifest Destiny- the belief that the US had a duty to take over the ALL of North America.

Mission 220

It was great meeting with parents and students.

 Next week you will be working on your  Mission  220 plans.

 If you have legos or any building materials that might be used to create a model of your class design, please bring them in. 
Any digital devices are also welcome.

Have a great weekend.

HOMEWORK

LANGUAGE: Similes, Metaphor and Personification Quiz on Monday.
                        Complete Handout
                        Two Voice Poem due on Monday

HISTORY:

Reminders
-P.A Day on Friday.

Happy Blessed Remembrance Day

Great job on today's assembly.

History: Re read pages 41-43. Answer #1 &2
 Progress Reports sent home today. I still have a few interview times available. Contact me tomorrow.

Remembrance day Assembly on Tuesday.
Practice your part!
 Bring in your costumes and money for poppies.

LANGUAGE: Work on your poem in two voices/ Skit for Remembrance Day

Reminders
-High school application forms due in the Office by Friday.

HOMEWORK

LANGUAGE: Complete Remembrance Day reading comprehension sheet.

Reminders
-We have our morning field trip to St. John Paul 2 High school. We will be taking the TTC. Bring your bus fare/tickets. A few kids have not brought in their permission forms. Please do so.

-Camp O interviews resume. Scheduled tomorrow are Daniela, Kyle, Victoria A, Victoria H and Asia Marie

- Our Remembrance Day assembly will be nest week Tuesday.

During the month of November we look at the issue of war and peace. We see that at times war is necessary or inevitable, but it always comes a terrific cost.

-Mass tomorrow morning. Meet at the Church.
- Haunted House and Halloween Dance will take place on Friday.
-History Test must be returned. Parents please sign.
-High school applications forms  and transition guides have gone home today!

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

The history test has been returned. The class average was 83%. The marks were generally very good. Please get them signed.

 Special congratulations to Rhea and Vanessa for pulling a perfect score!

HOMEWORK

History
Grade 8
Read page 36. Answer #1
Guiding Question: Why were some regions and groups in favour of confederation and others were not.

Grade 7
Re watch class presentation below on the Seigneurial System. Complete handout.

Reminders

-Parents, history test has been returned. Please sign and return.
- Haunted House is this Friday. Please bring in your spooky decorations
-Mass will be  this Thursday at St. Joseph's

GRADE SEVEN HISTORY

THE SEIGNEURIAL SYSTEM

Today's lesson

HOMEWORK

HISTORY
GRADE 7
Read pages 16-17 . Make notes. Answer 1&2
Grade 8
Read pages 35-36. Complete handout

HOMEWORK

History
Reread pages32-34.  Reread your notes.
Language
Review inferring lesson on blog
Complete handout.

Colonies of BNA:
Canada West, Canada East, Maritimes &The West

Economy- the wealth and resources of a country or region.
           
Economy- refers to how are the goods and services produced and consumed.

 The economy of British North America was weak. Why?

- The population was small. Economies need large populations to grow. There weren't enough people to buy products or to work for businesses.

The 2 major reasons for the colonies to work together:
1. They were worried that they would be taken over by the Americans
2. Their populations were too small, so they needed to trade with each other.

Intercolonial trade- trade between different colonies

Duty/Tariff-  a tax on an imported item
-it limited intercolonial trade
- people had to pay tariffs on items they got from other colonies.

External Trade-  trade outside of  BNA.
 eg. USA, Great Britain....

Goods from BNA were cheaper than goods from the USA because Great Britain put a tax on all American goods. There was no tax on goods from BNA ( now Canada).

Colonial Preference- Britain FAVOURED goods from BNA over  goods from America because BNA was English colonies but USA was a foreign country

Repeal- to abolish/get rid of
Corn Laws- made American wheat more expensive Canadian wheat.

In 1846- the Corn law was repealed in Great Britain
Free Trade- no taxes would be charged on imported goods.

After the Corn laws, Canadian farmers had a hard time.

External Trade
Colonies also exported to USA
New Brunswick exported lumber.
Nova Scotia exported fish.
Canadas exported wheat.

Reciprocity Treaty  was signed in 1854 between BNA and USA. They promised to lower tariffs on the other's goods so that consumers/ buyers could get cheaper goods.

In 1865, USA backs out of the Reciprocity Treaty because
1) The USA wasn't really benefiting from the treaty.
2)The USA wanted to punish Britain for supporting the South during the Civil War
3) They didn't like the tariffs that the Canadas put on manufactured imports.


So...
1) the repeal of the Corn laws
2) the repeal of the Reciprocity Treaty
led business people in the British North American colonies to want to focus on intercolonial trade!

Last week we began looking at inferring.

MAKING INFERENCES

GRADE 8 FIELD TRIP

Dear Parents/Guardians,

We are planning our grade 8 field trip and would very much like to take the opinions of our parent population into account.  Included below is a breakdown of the particulars of the three potential excursions.  We have researched trips to Quebec City, Montreal and Muskoka. Each trip comes highly recommended and offers students a unique educational opportunity.  Please consider the information below and make your selection. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at the school.

	Quebec City	Montreal	Camp Muskoka
Cost	$575-$600	$500	$240
Length of Stay	3 days, 2 nights	3 days, 2 nights	5 days, 4 nights
Possible Itinerary	-Museum Visits -Science Centre visit -Notre-Dame Basilica Visit	-Art Gallery Visit -Guided Tour of old Montreal - Montreal Science Centre	-Zip lining, -Low ropes -Archery -Snow shoeing, -Kayaking /canoeing -Inuit Blanket-making

I choose

• Quebec City
• Montreal
• Camp Muskoka

HOMEWORK

History: Use the study sheet to prepare for chapter 1 test

Language: Use the checklist and the success criteria to write your news article.



Reminders
- Bring in canned goods for the Thanksgiving Food Drive. Tomorrow is the last day.

                    
In short, gratitude is to be or the act of being thankful and readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. But, between all the big words and the bluntness of that statement it doesn't really represent how powerful that simple act can be. These days we take advantage of what we have and what we're used to, even when we don't realize it. You know those lectures you always get? Like;

" Claire there are people starving in Africa and there you are throwing out your broccoli....."

                     The person scolding you is making a good point, then again its all about how you say it.

                     One in eight people do not eat enough to be healthy. 925,000,000 million people die each year from hunger. 1,300,000,000 billion tons of food is wasted each year." and there you are throwing out your broccoli.......". Now how do you feel about eating all your vegetables?

                     Once you realize how lucky you are you will see that gratitude may sometimes be forgotten and only there when you get what you want. And now that you know, you have to follow these three rules of the virtue;

1. Get It; Know what it is and what it means to be grateful.

2.Show It; Say your pleases and your thankyous to everyone. And don't throw out your broccoli.

3. Be it; Be grateful. Say thanks to God for everything, even when everything's not doing that great.

                   The point is that gratitude is kind of like a super power. When your grateful what you have becomes enough. It makes you happier inevitably making the people around you happier too. So yes, thank and be thankful because what if you only had, today, what you thanked God for yesterday.?

                                                                                                                                                                                ~ Claire ~

                   

HOMEWORK

LANGUAGE: Post paragraph on Gratitude  to class blog. What is gratitude ? Why is it important to be a grateful person ?

Crossroads. read pages 30-35. Answer 1a and b


SCIENCE: Test tomorrow.



Reminders

-Bring in your Terry Fox money.
- No mass tomorrow morning

GRATITUDE

OCTOBER: WE CELEBRATE THE VIRTUE OF GRATITUDE

ART

A GREAT ART LESSON

IMPORTANT NOTICES

• Confirmation Registration begins at Sunday, October 5th  at St Joseph's. If you were baptized at another parish, please bring your baptismal certificate at that time.

• Pope John Paul 11 High school is having their parent information meeting on Thursday October 16, 2014

                 7-9 pm in the school library

• Boys' Flag Football Tournament tomorrow. Team members should be at school by 8:15 am

Holy eucharist from CAstañares Inutsij

We have been discussing the Holy Mass. Rewatch the powerpoint above and post 3 things that you learned about the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
 Use the powerpoint to answer the assigned worksheet

HOMEWORK

LANGUAGE: Use the success criteria we brainstormed today, to determine whether your new article is good or bad. 

HISTORY: Read pages 14-16. #2-4

RELIGION: What do you now know about Holy Mass? Why is it so special?

Reminders

-Bring in your pledges.

GRADE SEVEN HISTORY

CHECK OUT THE LINKS BELOW



JACQUES CARTIER


SHADOW PLAY



POST FIVE FACTS YOU HAEV LEARNED ABOUT THIS GREAT EXPLORER

HISTORY

GRADE 7

 New France – The Explorers and Military People 

1. What did King Francis I order Cartier to find on his voyages? /2 

2. Identify three ways in which Donnacona and the Iroquois people helped Jacques Cartier and his followers when they first arrived in North America. /3 

3. Why did France continue to send explorers after Cartier’s first trip failed? /1 

4. How did the French explorers get along with the various First Nations peoples? /1 

5. How important was it for the French to have a good relationship with them? /1 

6. Why were the Huron people eager to cooperate with the French? /1 

7. Why was Samuel de Champlain so important to the development of New France? /5 

8. Identify three important facts about Etienne Brûlé. /3 

HOMEWORK

LANGUAGE: Find news article.

HISTORY: Read pages 15-16

Reminders
- Mass on Friday morning
-Bring in Terry Fox pledge forms

HISTORY

PHYSICAL FEATURES OF BNA

- Aboriginals peoples showed Europeans the trade routes.
-It is a lot easier to get from one place to another today than it was in the 1800s. 
-Back then,  there were many obstacles to prevent  travel. 
-Colonies were far apart. 
-They were separated by large distances  and great bodies of water.

-Modern technology( planes, boats, trains, canals, roads ) allow us to travel around Canada a lot easier.

-Colonies of British North America were very far from each other.
-William MacKenzie ( a prime minister of Canada) said that "Canada has too  much geography."
-He meant that Canada was very large and it contained many different physical features. 

The Climate in Canada varies from region to region.

HOMEWORK

LANGUAGE: Review notes on the parts of a news article. Complete handout.

ART: Work on art. Due next week.

NEWS ARTICLES

Lead: This gives the most important information very briefly (usually who, what, when and where)
Body: It supplies additional information. It is divided into small paragraphs.
Facts: Every news article includes simple, true statements about what happened, such as "The fire which destroyed the entire block, was started because of faulty wiring.
Quotations: These retell, word for word, what someone actually said. Usually these quotations come from witnesses at the scene, or experts on a subject. For example:



Mr. Clem, manager of The Bay, said, "It was an inspiring sight  !"

HOMEWORK

HISTORY

GRADE 7

Read pages 6-9. Make notes on each section.

Grade  8

Read pages 10-12. Make notes.  Answer #1

LANGUAGE

-Complete handouts


GEOGRAPHY
-Complete handout

HISTORY

GRADE 8

EVERYDAY LIFE IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA

-Jobs were decided by gender
Everyone helped with heavy agricultural jobs

Boys- fed animals, gathered firewood,cleared fields, built fences and harvested crops

Girls- did domestic work in the home
They worked in the a garden milked the cows
They sun, knitted sow, cooked and cared for younger children


NO indoor plumbing
Light came from sunlight, candles or oil lamps. Wax and Oil was expensive, So people tried to do their activities during the day.

Define

agricultural-
livestock-

HISTORY

GRADE 7: THE NEWCOMERS


WHO: People from Europe (France, Spain, The Netherlands, Great Britain)

WHEN: IN 1530s, European countries started sending out explorers to find new lands.

WHAT: They wanted to set up colonies in those new lands

WHERE: North America


Colony-


Challenges/Problems that the newcomers are facing
-The newcomers didn't know what crops to eat. They aren't sure how they might feed themselves.
-The newcomers weren't prepared for the cold harsh weather.
-The newcomers had to deal with the Aboriginals living there. 

HISTORY

Confederation

-Canada became a nation, the Dominion of Canada, in 1867. 

-Before that, British North America was made up of a few provinces, the vast area of Rupert’s Land (privately owned by the Hudson’s Bay Company), and the North-Western Territory. 

-By 1864, many leaders felt that it would be good to join into one country. 

-Known as the Fathers of Confederation, these leaders met and wrote a constitution for the new country, which had to be passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. 

-Once passed, it became known as the British North America Act, or the BNA Act. 

-This Act brought together the three provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Canada (which became the provinces of Ontario and Quebec). 

-The BNA Act described the structure and main laws of the new country, as well as the division of powers between the new provinces and the federal government.

Use a  dictionary to define the bold words. Be ready to explain to class what they mean in your own words

http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/Education/OurCountryOurParliament/html_booklet/confederation-e.html

HOMEWORK

LANGUAGE: Watch videos on adverbs. Review notes and lesson on blog

Grade 7
Complete page 119
Grade 8
Complete page 113-114


RELIGION

Today  we discussed Jesus and the promise of the Holy Spirit. Find 3 ways to do what Jesus taught.
Love God. Love others. Help each other


GEOGRAPHY
Complete handout.