Next week all grade 7 classes will be working on their Performance Based Assessments. These are similar to year end exams and focus more on students skills learned throughout the year. They have access to all textbooks and sources and it is not necessary to study.
Here is what will be happening next week for PBA's:
Grade 7
End of Year Performance Based Assessment
At the end of each day, the list of items to complete will be handed in for assessment. Should you not be finished when the bell goes, it is your responsibility to make arrangements to be here until 4:15 to complete it. It may not be completed at home.
Day 1:
1. What is history and what makes something historically significant? Write a clear and concise paragraph. (I) (Writing)
2. Choose 5 events that played the largest role in creating Canada’s current identity and make some point form notes to prepare your arguments for WHY they are the most important?(I) (Skill for inquiry)
Day 2:
3. In groups of 3, debate which events are the most significant and have the greatest impact on Canadian identity. Your group will record its answers on a audio file. (G) (Speaking/listening/communication/managing info/identity)
4. As a group, decide a common 5 events that are significant in developing Canada. Put the 5 events your group has chosen to be the most significant in order on a timeline with a description of the event. (G) (managing info)
Day 3:
5. Explain in writing why this event is so important to shaping our identity as a country. Explanation MUST be on the timeline.(G) (writing/communication/POV)
6. Add an appropriate picture or symbol that corresponds with each event. (G) (media)
Day 4-5:
7. Watch the Heritage Minutes on Sir John A MacDonald and Sir Georges-Etienne Cartier by visiting www.historicacanada.ca/content/videos. Are these historically significant? Why or why not? How did the filmmakers convey their message? Answer in a well constructed paragraph. (writing/ skill for inquiry/POV) (I)
8. Choose one of your 5 events and create a Heritage Minute for it. (G) (citizenship/media/POV/speaking)
Here are some important events in Canadian history you can use as a starting point:
· First Contact between First Nations and Europeans
· Expulsion of the Acadians
· The Seven Years War
- US Civil War
· The War of 1812
· The British North America Act
· The Fur Trade
· The Loyalist Migration
· The Battle on the Plains of Abraham
· Extinction of the Beothuk
· Red River Resistance
· The Great Migration
· Numbered Treaties
· North American Industrial Revolution
· Immigration Act
· The Quebec Act
· The Royal Proclamation
- Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada
- Confederation
- Act of Union
- Chinese Head Tax
- American Revolution
- Filles de roi
