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Bonjour Maddy, Sounds good. I'm putting it in, and printing it out haha hopefully Melissa and Liam have no objections! :) See you tomorrow, Valerie

Hey Val, the write up looks great! Thanks so much for putting this together. In our areas of concern, I would mention that: "One potential way to remedy our "rushed" timing in the presentation would have been to streamline our focus into 8 topics rather than 10 during the planning process. Then the "workload" for each group member would have been more even when it came to specifically putting hooks/activities/assignments together (since two people focused on three topics, and the other two people only had two topics) and we would have had more time to focus on fewer topics during the presentation itself."

Let me know what you guys think. So proud of our group!

-Maddy

Hey Everyone! Sick job today! I think our presentation went SUPER well, and that everyone loved it!!! I wrote up our group report quickly because I figured it was easier to just get it out of the way while it was still fresh! I've posted it below. Let me know what you think, and feel free to make changes. When you are happy with the report, just write on here that you are so that I can print off a copy everyone is pleased with for Wednesday for Fred. Drinks soon to celebrate! Again super happy guys! Amazing job! -Valerie

Overall, We are extremely pleased with our demo report and presentation, and feel we had many strengths. We think that we took an unconventional topic, and successfully used this topic to teach students about Canadian history, culture, and identity. Another strength was that we took a familiar and comfortable topic for many students and facilitated students into looking at sports through a critical lens, and to have students move out of their comfort zone and not naively look at sports. We are also happy that we were able to successfully incorporate seminar preparation into this unit. As a grade 12 university preparation course, it is extremely important that this course helps prepare students for their university experience. One area we found had not been previously covered was seminar-style classes. Seminars account for a large component of most Arts degrees, so we thought seminar experience was a must-have for our students, regardless of whether they continue on in History, English, Sociology, or another area of the Arts. We were successfully able to incorporate readings and topics that teachers can use to help prepare students for university. As writing is also a large component in university, we also incorporated many writing activities and assessments that help engage students in critical and analytical thinking, and how to have these arguments fleshed out in writing. We also made sure to include aspects of historiographical writing, research, and data compiling, which are extremely useful for those students who decide to continue with history in university. Another strength was the flexibility this unit provides teachers. As mentioned in our presentation, this demo can be done as a thematic unit, or as individual lessons. This allows teachers to tie all the chronological history learned throughout the course through a thematic lens. This will also refresh students’ memories of the chronological events they learned prior to this unit. If teachers do not want to use this as a unit, they can use a “grab-bag” approach and pick items to incorporate into other units. One weakness during our presentation was our concern for timing. Although we managed to run everything on time, timing was an area of concern for us considering we had 10 topics to cover, and it made have been evident that we were watching the clock. In hindsight, we could have rehearsed our presentation better ahead of time to have a more accurate representation of how long everyone’s section ran. This would have reduced our time “watching the clock”. What we would improve on. As mentioned, we could have improved on practicing our presentation ahead of time. If we were to do this presentation again, this would allow us to ensure that everything is getting explained as accurately as possible in the allotted time.

Group Mark: 9.5/ 10

_ YAYYYY!!! Can't wait for tomorrow. As a reminder to everyone (in case you forgot): For tomorrow, plan on presenting __in detail__ 1 hook, 1 activity and 1 assignment from each of your topics. The rest of your hooks, activities and assignments you will gloss over in about 2 sentences. Liam, we discussed on Saturday that during your Topic 1, you will have the class participate in a 30-40 second blurt out of any lines they remember from the "I Am Canadian" Rant and you will show the class the Webquest and Corkboard websites.

I have a hockey stick to "hook" anyone who goes over time. Remember, you have about 8 minutes to present each topic. Don't forget your team Canada shirts. Big Shout out to Melissa, thanks for getting the books printed and uploading the Demo!!! So Stoked for Tomorrow! GO TEAM!

-Mad

Hey everyone! so the books are printed and i have them in my possession!!! they look fantastic and i am so proud of all of the work we did! the total cost for the 7 books was $130.00 ... i got them printed double-sided so that saved us some money but since I wanted to pick them up today they charged us an extra $30 for express. So the total for each person is $32.50. I also uploaded the demo on webct so that is covered! See you all tomorrow and don't forget to wear your Canada swag!!

- Melissa

What up, Team? As promised, here is our presentation outline. I will print copies for the class tomorrow :) Hope you're enjoying your free time!!



-Maddy

Hey everyone, here is the Seminar Discussion Outline that we should each copy into our Assignments for each topic. Also included below is how we should format each topic section



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRA8OdWJPtU&feature=related

Possible hook for someone? hahaha



-maddy

Hey Group! So I was somewhat productive during Social Foundations (ha!) and found a cool website which basically gives links to all these teacher resource websites. http://www.21stcenturyschoolteacher.com/cool-websites.html

There are some cool ones like online whiteboards, safe chat-rooms teachers can enable for students on their course website or blog for safe online discussion, online role play stimulation. Just some food for thought :) -Valerie

Hey Everyone, So I will keep up with this theme of resource sharing :) Here are some that I found that may be of some interest to you guys (i know this is super last minute but hey whatever works!)

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- Mel

Hello Group! I was looking for resources, and stumbled across a couple good sites. The one is just a background of Canadian Athletes that have impacted Canadian History, and lesson ideas surrounding them. The other is a CBC video regarding the maurice richard riots (french vs english relations in the 1950's).

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/lp.do;jsessionid=E512586A6D06C00A09CBCFAD662BB1FE.tomcat1?id=12955 http://archives.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/clips/13340/

Hey everyone!

So while trying to find resources for myself, I've managed to find some for everyone too. :)

Historica Institute à [|www.historica-dominion.ca] If you click the Education tab, on the right hand side there is a drop box that says lesson plans. It gives an over view of the lesson plan, background info, aims, and lists some activity ideas.

There you will find: -Innovations and Origins of Sport -Women and Sport: Footprints Study Guide -First Nations Athletes in History and in the Media: Tom Longboat and Steve Collins -Canada’s Game- The Early Years -Canada’s Game- The Modern Era -African Canadians in Sport -World Champions -Heroes

This website also has all of the Heritage Minute/ Moments videos under the Video tab. They have lots of other videos and resources as well.

Articles from JSTOR: -“The Meaning of Being Canadian: A Comparison between the Youth of Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Origins” -“Imagining a Canadian Identity through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey” -“Women and Sports: Extending Limits to Physical Expression” -“Governing Sports in the Global Era: A Political Economy of Major League Baseball and Its Stakeholders” -“The Pricing of Sports Events” Do Teams Maximize Profit?” -“Canadian Gambling- Trends and Public Policy Issues” -“The Sports Business as a Labour Market Laboratory” (American?) -“Canadian Immigration and Ethnic History in the 1970s and 1980s” -“A Proposal to Reduce the Age Discrimination in Canadian Minor Hockey” -“Similar Economic Histories, Different Industrial Structures: Transatlantic Contrasts in the Evolution of Professional Sports Leagues.”

I have found some articles for my topics (leisure, labour, and politics). I didn't put them up because I didn't they would be useful for you guys, they all distinctively say labour or leisure in the title. If anyone comes across any resources while you're searching that might be useful for my topics I'd greatly appreciate if you posted them for me :)

-Valerie

Hey all, here are some links to the resources i found that might be helpful to us... http://archives.cbc.ca/dossier.asp?page=1&IDDossier=824&IDCat=&IDCatPa=

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/traditions/English/index.html

http://cla.pointstreaksites.com/view/cla/about-42/the-sport-of-lacrosse/a-short-history-of-lacrosse-in-canada

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/default.do?page=.index... in the search field in the top right corner, you can search things like "lacrosse" or "hockey" and get some good responses

hope some of these can help a bit :) see everyone on monday! good luck with the learning journals

-Maddy

Hey everybody! Attached to this message is a rough breakdown of our lessons and curriculum. Hopefully the link works :)



-Maddy

Hey everyone, Here is just a sum up of our meeting with all the topics. I just wrote them in the order we had discussed them, but I know we talked about merging some together. Play around as you wish! Please note that I almost made our logo Sidney Crobsy's face as discussed at the meeting. However, for Melissa's and Liam's sake I (sadly) resisted.

Demo is: January 30th (a Monday) Course: CHI4U Canada: History, Identity, and Culture

1. Intro Lesson (can't remember what we decided for this one! my bad) Maybe it can be about Canada's identity and sports? Students' opinions on sports, if its important to our Canadian Identity, why or why not... For the closure lesson, we can revisit this question when we look at the Greatest Canadians? Thoughts? 2. Building a Nation: Aboriginal Sports, lacrosse, hockey, baseball, basketball 3. Sports and Politics: Summit Scenes, Cold War. 4. Olympics: To host, or not to host. 5. National Heroes or Disease and Sports: Terry Fox, Run for the Cure, etc. 6. Sports and the Economy: Big Contracts, economy impacting sports 7.Sports and Ethics: Ben Johnson, steroids, 2010 Women's Hockey Team 8. Sports and Unity Blue Jays, Charlotte Town Accord 9. Sports and Marketing: Advertising, lack thereof, Donovan Bailey 10. Sports and Hysteria: rivalries, NHL, rioting after Vancouver 11. Sports and Minorities- women, immigrants, gender biases, etc. 12. Sports, Leisure and Labour History: time watching playing, money, money spent on attending games, rise in popularity etc. 13. Conclusion: Greatest Canadians. Think of your own greatest Canadian athletic hero.

Things to address in introduction:
 * This can be a unit, or lessons can be incorporated into other units of study to make it more fun, interesting, and relatable.
 * Benefits for a university prep course: Critical thinking; specific, narrow topic; having to compare "unusual" things in an academic sense

Ideas for Culminating Activities:
 * Students use smaller assignments throughout the unit to make their own Hall of Fame, or a Museum Exhibit