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L’effort de guerre
IN FRENCH: Évaluer la participation du Canada à l’effort de guerre durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Se questionner sur la façon dont le Canada s’y pendrait aujourd’hui pour faire accepter aux Canadiens son effort de guerre.
Subject Areas
Languages : French
Social Science : History and Citizenship Education, Contemporary society
Level : Secondary 3,4,5
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Le langage, une histoire d’éducation
IN FRENCH: Amener les élèves à transformer les mots et expressions de registre populaire en registre de langue normatif et recherché à partir des visionnements des films Circulation à Montréal (première partie) et Fridolinons. Amener les élèves à identifier, à partir de ces films, des indices culturels propres à la période des années 1940 et 1950.
Subject Areas
Languages : French
Level : Secondary 4,5
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Rural Life
Students will produce a bristle board display showing the importance of forestry to the Canadian economy. This activity is intended for Secondary 2 and 3 students in history and geography.
Subject Areas
Languages : French
Social Science : History, Geography, History and Citizenship Education
Level : Secondary 2,3
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Urban Life
Students are invited to critically examine urban planning projects in Montreal in the 1950s and today. This activity is intended for Secondary 3, 4 and 5 students in history, civics and Understanding the Contemporary World courses. The objectives of this activity are two-fold: 1. Students will become aware of traffic problems and their consequences for large cities. 2. Students will develop solutions with a view to sustainable development.
Subject Areas
Languages : French
Social Science : History and Citizenship Education, Contemporary society
Level : Secondary 3,4,5
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Montreal's Port
L’élève tout en découvrant le port de Montréal au début des années 1950, est Students will discover the port of Montreal in the 1950s and examine the reasons for its decline since that time. This activity is intended for Secondary 2, 3, 4 and 5 students in geography and history courses.
Subject Areas
Languages : French
Social Science : History, Geography, History and Citizenship Education, Contemporary society
Level : Secondary 2,3,4,5
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Back to the Land
Students will put themselves in the shoes of a settler who has left his home for the Abitibi region and is writing to his fiancée in Saint-Arthur-de-Portneuf asking her to come join him. This activity is intended for Secondary 3 and 4 students in history, civics and English courses. The goal of the activity is to enable students to discover the colossal efforts of previous generations.
Subject Areas
Languages : French
Social Science : History and Citizenship Education
Level : Secondary 3,4
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Back from the War
Students will produce a poster exhorting veterans of the Second World War to return to the land. This activity is intended for Secondary 3, 4 and 5 students in history and visual arts courses.
Subject Areas
Languages : French
Social Science : History
Arts Education : visual Arts
Level : Secondary 3,4,5
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Working the Land
Students will compose commentary to accompany the screening of a silent excerpt from the film The Settler (Bernard Devlin and Raymond Garceau, 1952). This activity is intended for Secondary 3 and 4 students in history, civics and English courses. The goal of the activity is two-fold: 1. To enable students to understand the importance of mechanisation to working the land in the 1950s. 2. To enable students to grasp the importance of the film lecturer before the arrival of talking cinema.
Subject Areas
Languages : French
Social Science : History and Citizenship Education
Level : Secondary 3,4
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Les femmes au temps de la guerre
IN FRENCH: Prendre conscience du nouveau rôle de la femme durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et en démontrer les bouleversements. Amener les élèves à réfléchir et à se prononcer sur le rôle de la femme dans des conflits dans lesquels le Canada est impliqué.
Subject Areas
Languages : French
Social Science : History and Citizenship Education, Contemporary society
Level : Secondary 3,4,5
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A Virtual Visit to Montreal in 1942
Following a screening of the film La cité de Notre-Dame, students will describe Montreal in the year 1942 and compare it to the city today.
Subject Areas
Languages : French
Social Science : History and Citizenship Education, Contemporary society
Level : Secondary 3,4,5
