Communities: Local, National, and Global

Overall Expectations

• analyse the impact of external forces and events on Canada and it policies since 1914

Specific Expectations

• describe some of the ways in which American culture and politics have influenced Canada since World War I (e.g., movies, magazines, television, the Internet)
  
  
• explain the impact in Canada of the experience and memory or the Holocaust (e.g., immigration of Holocaust survivors; introduction of human rights legislation; policy dealing with hate crimes and Nazi war criminals; nature of response to occurrences of genocide/ethnic cleansing in the world after World War II; participation in International War Crimes tribunal)

Change and Continuity

Overall Expectations

• analyse the impact of scientific and technological developments on Canadians

Specific Expectations

• describe various ways in which technological developments have affected the lives of Canadians since World War I (e.g., telephones, cars, airplanes, radio, television, nuclear arms and nuclear power, satellites, computers, the Internet, developments in petrochemicals and biotechnology)

Lessons

Earth Day

Hurricane Katrina and the Internet

TV Turnoff Week

Methods of Historical Inquiry and Communication

Overall Expectations

• interpret and analyse information gathered through research, employing concepts and approaches appropriate to historical inquiry

Specific Expectations

Research

• evaluate the credibility of sources and information (e.g., by considering the authority, impartiality, and expertise of the source and checking the information for accuracy, underlying assumptions, stereotypes, prejudice, and bias)

Interpretation and Analysis

• distinguish between fact, opinion and inference in texts and visuals found in primary and secondary sources
  
  
• identify different viewpoints and explicit biases when interpreting information for research or when participating in a discussion