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Thursday, May 10th
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - Terry Fox, Generation X vs Generation Y, Impact of the again Baby Boom from lesson 3I Culture and Society Changes
Block D SS10 - Heritage Projects…
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Wednesday May 9th
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - Verification (open notes test) on Canada in the 60s/70s (Ch. 7, Lessons 3 D, E, F, G)
Block D SS10 - Continuing with Heritage Projects… I’m so impressed at the quality of the students’ work.
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Did you get your tickets? To the gun show?
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Tuesday, May 8th
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - lesson 3G Autonomy in the 60s and 70s - Cuban Missile Crisis, Cold War, Contributions of Diefenbaker, Pearson, Trudeau. Video documentary on the Vietnam war
Block D SS10 - more Heritage Project Presentations! …incredible!
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Monday May 7th
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - lesson 3F Environment and Economic Issues in Canada 1960s and 70s. Media and discussion on megaprojects, women’s rights, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, and Greenpeace
Block D SS10 - more Heritage Project Presentations! amazing samosas delivered hot!
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Friday May 4th
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - finish up on the topic of Quebec Nationalism in the 70s, media pieces, and discussion… begin lesson 3F Economy & Environment in the 60s and 70s.
Block D SS10 - Heritage Project Presentations… wow, just fantastic! Today we had two different sharings of bannock. One was a three generation creation, the other done with the help of our AbEd worker. Great use of community!
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Thursday May 3rd
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - continue lesson 3E Political Change 1960-1976. Media and discussion on Trudeau and the FLQ crisis.
Block D SS10 - Verification (open notes test) on Unit 3 Lessons G-K
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Wednesday May 2nd
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - start lesson 3E Political Change 1960-1976. Media and discussion on Diefenbaker, Avro project, Canadian Defense, F35 purchase, American influence, Pearson, peacekeeping, Flag debate
Block D SS10 - Review chart for ch. 7 (pos/neg experiences by different groups in the “Laurier Era”), and then… we began our Heritage Project presentations. Ashley and Alora started us off with AMAZING presentations. Verification tomorrow on Unit 3 Lessons G-K
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Tuesday May 1st
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - continue lesson 3D Changes in Canadian Society 1960-1976. Media includes a look at the 50s (Canada, Peoples History) and then the 1960s through the eyes of teenagers in 1968, a documentary made in Ottawa or Toronto called Christopher’s Move Matinee (available on the NFB site). Block A - double block, off to library for orientation on the Echo project and a chance to see the nuclear detonation simulations.
Block D SS10 - Media and follow up on Lessons 3G-3K
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[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
Students watching & chatting about nuclear blasts. Timelapse link from http://webriver.blogspot.ca/2012/04/cold-war-nuclear-detonation-links.html
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Monday Apr 30th
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - lesson 3D Changes in Canadian Society 1960-1976
Block D SS10 - Media and follow up on Lessons 3G-3K
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Friday Apr 27th
Non-Instructional Day: for staff this is a school-based Professional Development day. I typically do some planning, reading, writing, organizing, discussing, and thinking! Now I do that most every day, but on Pro-D days I usually get to do this with colleagues, and the scope is broader than just my current classes. Another tradition is that I start my Pro-D days over breakfast with other Social Studies teachers and swap stories, ideas, complaints, and celebrations. I’ve detailed other professional learning ideas and goals in my professional growth plan
For today, in the morning I’ll be joining 1 teacher from PGSS, 1 from Duchess, 1 from Kelly Road, 2 from College Heights, and 2 others fro D.P. Todd for a Pacific Slope colloquium at PGSS. This group of educators is part of a movement to provide mutual support and accountability, and rigorous professional learning in what has been a bit of an educational clearcut in our school district over the last few years.
our topics include: Cold War/Postwar performance-based assessment, Echo project, sourcework, simulations
If we wrap up in time, I will be attending Val Kilbey’s afternoon workshop on professional growth plans, also at PGSS
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Tuesday Apr 24th - Thursday Apr 26th
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - completed Lessons on Canada in the 1950s - 3A on Society and Culture, 3B on Politics and Prosperity, and 3C on the Cold War. Media highlighted the Cold War, current events featured Alberta election and the tragic Lakeland Mills explosion and fire in Prince George. Wrapped up the week with a verification (open notes test) on CH. 6 and Lesson 3A-3C on Thursday. We also began library visits (Blk. C) for starting planning and research for the Echo project.
Block D SS10 - Lesson 3I, 3J, and 3K taking us to the end of our look at Canada heading into the 20th Century (Ch. 7 in your textbook). Thursday we spent the double block in the library on Heritage Projects… some of the class is dragging their feet, while others are being incredibly resourceful and productive. Please let me know how I can help if you are off-track… don’t let this opportunity pass you by.
Note on marks: all classes have had fresh marks updates (available, as always, on my website with your login (pwd=student number plus initials). The “snapshot” (cumulative mark to date) has also been entered as a mid-semester report card mark.
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Monday Apr 23rd
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C SS11 - returned results (marks update) with the Unit 2 test and the Unit 3 project. Very cool projects, many involving a Depression-Era experience (an experiment in empathy) and some involving heritage connections to great-grandmothers, photo albums, and recipe books! Today we also jumped in to Lesson 3B on the changing politics and prosperity in Canada after WWII. Current events: Alberta election, speculation on media bias, and review of the political spectrum. Blk B (double) also watched some media on DPs, Japanese internees, Newfoundland joining Confed, oil in Alberta, and megaprojects in BC
Block D SS10 - Lesson 3H “Come to Canada” — Laurier, Sifton, and the Last Best West Campaign
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Friday Apr 20th
OPEN DAYPLAN for Mr. T’s classes. Check website for the rest: course handouts, marks & support for students http://dpts.sd57.bc.ca/~gthielmann
Blocks A, B, and C - SS11 lesson 3A Canada in the 1950s
Block D SS10 - double block in the library to work on Heritage Projects… I was very proud of how most students used this time to make authentic connections and conduct meaningful research for their big unit project…. a very diverse set of outcomes today, mostly positive!
Open Dayplan for Mr. Thielmann's classes.
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