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Summer School
July 7, 2008 | 3 Comments
Today was the first day of summer school at Richmond Green. Apparently, as Ms. Frame, my summer history teacher, says, one day in school is equivalent to one week in a regular semester. After the course outline and schedule were handed out, we had a Heritage Quiz to see what we already knew. I had to guess a few of the questions about statistics and famous Canadian children’s songwriters. I also didn’t know who the current Premier of Quebec was, and the Canadian Olympic athlete that won a medal in 1988. After taking the quiz up (which was, fortunately, not for marks), we covered the whole introduction unit today that was about the pre-WWI 1900s. We took a lot of oral notes, as Ms. Frame says that it is a good practise for university. We had a note on “What is history?” and categories of analysis. There are three types of “histories”, which are fact, opinion and bias. We also wrote on how to identify and analyze historical information, based on the author’s gender, race, religion, class and wealth.
After our break, we covered immigration to Canada from 1900-1913, Manifest Destiny, and the 15 years Sir Wilfrid Laurier was PM. It was basically review of the ending unit we learned in grade eight. We also had a debate, which was about reciprocity and the 1911 election. We chose roles by picking index cards (I was Robert Borden), then having a short debate which consisted of introductions from both sides and then rebuttals from either side. It was really short because no one had anything to say. Unfortunately for my team, Laurier and reciprocity won. The last thing we did before school was over was write an opinion paragraph on Laurier’s compromises. I thought that he was a good prime minister, and that he tried his best to make everyone happy. However, we had taken more notes on the cons of his decisions, so I wrote about his “terrible” compromise on the Manitoba Schools Act.
That was the end of the first day of summer school. You would think that I would go home and relax, but I had to walk home, then go take my Harmony class…
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“Hertiage Quiz”?
Sorry, typo on heritage.
Well at least the debate seems interesting, and the Manitoba Schools Act was really quite crappy. Good luck on the exam!
P.S. The current Premier of Quebec is Jean Charest of the Quebec Liberals (who are separated from the national liberal party (I think…))