Using the website called Canadian Settlement, found at http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/index-e.html, find the answers to the questions listed below. I suggest right-clicking on the website, and opening in a new window, so that you can read the information and answer the questions without flipping back and forth.
When you find the first answer in the other window, click on "Post a Comment" under this blog entry. Number your answers 1-6 and answer the questions one by one.
When you are ready to post your answers, put your codename (PaCo, RiBr, KeGr, etc.) at the bottom of your post. Click "Anonymous" in the circle, type in the letters if you need to, and click Post Comment.
Anyway, here are the questions:
1. For the Mi'kmaq, what is the name of their god who created everything?
2. Mi'kmaq clothing was often decorated with coloured what?
3. Shanawdithit, the last remaining Beothuk, died in 1829 of what disease?
4. What is the most recognized sign of the Inuit people? What is it for?
5. The Metis are a union of what groups of people?
6. What did the Haida place in front of their longhouses (homes) ?
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Questions about My Side of the Mountain, ch.12
I Find a Real Live Man
1. How does Jessie Coon James help Sam?
2. Watch this video on Henry David Thoreau:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lybI20giDi4
Why does Bando call Sam “Thoreau”?
3. Sam is lonely when Bando leaves. How might you have handled
the loneliness?
Open a Word document, and type the answers there. Do a spell-check. Use your no-excuse spelling word list. Then, copy and paste the answers in response to this post. DO NOT use your full name, but use your computer password instead (VaSp, KaRu, etc.)
1. How does Jessie Coon James help Sam?
2. Watch this video on Henry David Thoreau:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lybI20giDi4
Why does Bando call Sam “Thoreau”?
3. Sam is lonely when Bando leaves. How might you have handled
the loneliness?
Open a Word document, and type the answers there. Do a spell-check. Use your no-excuse spelling word list. Then, copy and paste the answers in response to this post. DO NOT use your full name, but use your computer password instead (VaSp, KaRu, etc.)
Friday, October 30, 2009
Let's try this out...
Good morning, class!
This is a post designed to get you to be writing on my blog.
To write your answer, open a Word document, type your thoughts there, fix your spelling and so on, then copy and paste it below.
Your questions are:
1) What is Halloween all about? What do you know about its origins?
2) What do you like to do at Halloween?
Do not sign your name, but just your username initials, that is, JoHa, TaCo, ZoMi, etc.
This is a post designed to get you to be writing on my blog.
To write your answer, open a Word document, type your thoughts there, fix your spelling and so on, then copy and paste it below.
Your questions are:
1) What is Halloween all about? What do you know about its origins?
2) What do you like to do at Halloween?
Do not sign your name, but just your username initials, that is, JoHa, TaCo, ZoMi, etc.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
7/8 SS Technology Questions
Thinking back over the last 400 years of European presence in Atlantic Canada...
Think of 1 innovation in technology that has been invented/created that has changed life for the better in Atlantic Canada. Name it and the year it came about. Do this for each of these categories:
1) communication
2) water travel
3) ground travel
4) air travel
5) entertainment
6) fishing
7) farming
8) lumbering
9) food preparation
10) health care
11) education
You may work in groups of 2 for this assignment. Post your answers to the blog when you are done, and we will go over the answers in class.
Think of 1 innovation in technology that has been invented/created that has changed life for the better in Atlantic Canada. Name it and the year it came about. Do this for each of these categories:
1) communication
2) water travel
3) ground travel
4) air travel
5) entertainment
6) fishing
7) farming
8) lumbering
9) food preparation
10) health care
11) education
You may work in groups of 2 for this assignment. Post your answers to the blog when you are done, and we will go over the answers in class.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Social Studies - Confederation websites and questions
This is where we are going to be studying from for the next few classes:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/kids/index-e.html
Here are today's questions:
• When did the Dominion of Canada come into being?
• Which colonies joined the federation? How were they reorganized in 1867?
• What is the difference between a province and a territory?
• When and how have new provinces or territories been created?
• Which ones joined Confederation as full partners?
Post the answers as a response to this blog.
Here are your source websites:
www.nlc-bnc.ca/confederation/kids
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/confederation/
http://www.canadiana.org/citm/
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozhistory/c/129160.html
http://www.canadiana.org
These are your groups:
1) Kitarra, Wes, Brittany
2) Kristin, LaShaya, Jailen
3) Sydney, Dwanti, Justin
4) Suzanne, Nick, Courtney
5) Ashlynn, Brandon, Zach
6) Victoria, Cary-Lynn, Brady
7) Kennedy, Jayden, Anita
8) Jessica, Jarrika, Matthew
Each group only needs one researcher (one laptop), but the others in the group must help the researcher find the information needed to complete the task
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/kids/index-e.html
Here are today's questions:
• When did the Dominion of Canada come into being?
• Which colonies joined the federation? How were they reorganized in 1867?
• What is the difference between a province and a territory?
• When and how have new provinces or territories been created?
• Which ones joined Confederation as full partners?
Post the answers as a response to this blog.
Here are your source websites:
www.nlc-bnc.ca/confederation/kids
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/confederation/
http://www.canadiana.org/citm/
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozhistory/c/129160.html
http://www.canadiana.org
These are your groups:
1) Kitarra, Wes, Brittany
2) Kristin, LaShaya, Jailen
3) Sydney, Dwanti, Justin
4) Suzanne, Nick, Courtney
5) Ashlynn, Brandon, Zach
6) Victoria, Cary-Lynn, Brady
7) Kennedy, Jayden, Anita
8) Jessica, Jarrika, Matthew
Each group only needs one researcher (one laptop), but the others in the group must help the researcher find the information needed to complete the task
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Atlantic Canadian Seal Hunt
The Atlantic Canadian Seal Hunt - 7/8 Social Studies
1. List 5 reasons why people are opposed to the seal hunt.
2. List 5 reasons why people are supportive of it.
3. What is your opinion? Use at least 5 sentences. State your opinion using words and phrases like “I feel”, “In my opinion”, “I believe”, “From what I understand”, and so on.
1. List 5 reasons why people are opposed to the seal hunt.
2. List 5 reasons why people are supportive of it.
3. What is your opinion? Use at least 5 sentences. State your opinion using words and phrases like “I feel”, “In my opinion”, “I believe”, “From what I understand”, and so on.
Monday, March 23, 2009
7/8 Social Studies Atlantic Canada news articles March 24, 2009
ARTICLE #1
East Coast seal hunt opens in southern Gulf of St. Lawrence
Published Monday March 23rd, 2009
CAP-AUX-MEULES, Que. - The East Coast seal hunt got underway Monday in the ice floes of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence around Quebec's Iles de la Madeleine, although weather was hindering the efforts of anti-hunt observers.
About 20 sealing vessels from the islands ventured out to sea, while some land-based hunting was also underway, said Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Jenkins said wind conditions had pushed some of the ice against the shore, meaning part of the seal herd could be reached by hunters on land.
He said the length of the land-based hunt would be determined by the winds that brought the ice to shore in the first place.
"If the wind does turn around it'll push that particular herd that's up against the islands off into the gulf more, and probably disperse them a bit," said Jenkins.
He said winds were picking up and snow was also in the forecast.
Jenkins said the combination of weather and ice conditions would determine the length of a hunt that could take anywhere from a few days to several weeks.
"It can go very quickly if everything is concentrated on ice pans that are stable . . . but if things get dispersed, I think last year the hunt went on for several weeks," said Jenkins.
He later confirmed that it was looking increasingly likely the forecast would delay the start of Tuesday's hunt in the gulf by sealers from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Weather conditions were already playing havoc Monday with plans by anti-sealing organizations to document the hunt.
Officials with the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Humane Society International confirmed high winds had made it impossible to get observer helicopters into the air.
Jenkins said federal officials issued 16 observer permits to journalists and anti-sealing organizations.
Those opposed to the hunt have promised intense scrutiny following a recent decision by a European Parliament committee to endorse a bill that would impose a ban on the import of seal products to the 27-member union.
The decision came despite intense lobbying by Canadian politicians looking to convince the European body that the commercial seal hunt is humane.
About 30 per cent of the 280,000 harp seal quota will be taken in the gulf, while the rest will go to the major hunt off Newfoundland's northern coast, known as the Front, which has yet to begin.
Last year's gulf hunt was overshadowed by the loss of four sealers in the sinking of L'Acadien II on March 29.
The small boat capsized off Cape Breton while under tow by a coast guard icebreaker.
-By Keith Doucette in Halifax
Questions:
1. Where does this seal hunting take place?
2. How long does it last for?
3. Why are some people opposed to sealing?
4. Why would Canada's politicians want the seal hunt to take place anyway?
5. Why do you think these "hunters" put up with the criticism they get for killing seals?
6. Can you think of any other jobs that are unpopular?
ARTICLE #2
Fisherman facing charges in N.S. after seizure of lobster tails
Published Monday March 23rd, 2009
METEGHAN, N.S. - Federal fishery officers in Nova Scotia say they've made a substantial lobster seizure.
Officers confiscated 308 lobster tails at the Meteghan wharf. A fisherman who was apprehended at the wharf will appear in court at a later date.
It's a violation of the Federal Fisheries Act to have tails and claws that have been separated from the body, because it removes the ability for officers to determine the size of the lobster.
The tails were confiscated last Wednesday.
Questions
1. Why did this fisherman get in trouble with the law?
2. Why would he have only lobster tails?
3. Why does the length of caught lobsters matter?
4. Was he affecting others by his decision? If so, how?
East Coast seal hunt opens in southern Gulf of St. Lawrence
Published Monday March 23rd, 2009
CAP-AUX-MEULES, Que. - The East Coast seal hunt got underway Monday in the ice floes of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence around Quebec's Iles de la Madeleine, although weather was hindering the efforts of anti-hunt observers.
About 20 sealing vessels from the islands ventured out to sea, while some land-based hunting was also underway, said Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Jenkins said wind conditions had pushed some of the ice against the shore, meaning part of the seal herd could be reached by hunters on land.
He said the length of the land-based hunt would be determined by the winds that brought the ice to shore in the first place.
"If the wind does turn around it'll push that particular herd that's up against the islands off into the gulf more, and probably disperse them a bit," said Jenkins.
He said winds were picking up and snow was also in the forecast.
Jenkins said the combination of weather and ice conditions would determine the length of a hunt that could take anywhere from a few days to several weeks.
"It can go very quickly if everything is concentrated on ice pans that are stable . . . but if things get dispersed, I think last year the hunt went on for several weeks," said Jenkins.
He later confirmed that it was looking increasingly likely the forecast would delay the start of Tuesday's hunt in the gulf by sealers from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Weather conditions were already playing havoc Monday with plans by anti-sealing organizations to document the hunt.
Officials with the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Humane Society International confirmed high winds had made it impossible to get observer helicopters into the air.
Jenkins said federal officials issued 16 observer permits to journalists and anti-sealing organizations.
Those opposed to the hunt have promised intense scrutiny following a recent decision by a European Parliament committee to endorse a bill that would impose a ban on the import of seal products to the 27-member union.
The decision came despite intense lobbying by Canadian politicians looking to convince the European body that the commercial seal hunt is humane.
About 30 per cent of the 280,000 harp seal quota will be taken in the gulf, while the rest will go to the major hunt off Newfoundland's northern coast, known as the Front, which has yet to begin.
Last year's gulf hunt was overshadowed by the loss of four sealers in the sinking of L'Acadien II on March 29.
The small boat capsized off Cape Breton while under tow by a coast guard icebreaker.
-By Keith Doucette in Halifax
Questions:
1. Where does this seal hunting take place?
2. How long does it last for?
3. Why are some people opposed to sealing?
4. Why would Canada's politicians want the seal hunt to take place anyway?
5. Why do you think these "hunters" put up with the criticism they get for killing seals?
6. Can you think of any other jobs that are unpopular?
ARTICLE #2
Fisherman facing charges in N.S. after seizure of lobster tails
Published Monday March 23rd, 2009
METEGHAN, N.S. - Federal fishery officers in Nova Scotia say they've made a substantial lobster seizure.
Officers confiscated 308 lobster tails at the Meteghan wharf. A fisherman who was apprehended at the wharf will appear in court at a later date.
It's a violation of the Federal Fisheries Act to have tails and claws that have been separated from the body, because it removes the ability for officers to determine the size of the lobster.
The tails were confiscated last Wednesday.
Questions
1. Why did this fisherman get in trouble with the law?
2. Why would he have only lobster tails?
3. Why does the length of caught lobsters matter?
4. Was he affecting others by his decision? If so, how?
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