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Your name:Nicole Britto

**Initial Reading and Assessment of Textbook Treatment of the Topic**

Name of Gr. 10 Textbook examined:The Canadian Challenge (Don Quinlan)

Name of more "scholarly" source examined:Hell's Corner: An Illustrated History of Canada's Great War (Jack Granatstein)

__Your Initial Thoughts:__ Please provide a **brief** (5-10 sentences) initial assessment of the textbook's treatment of the subject. We have not developed any particular criteria by which to assess the textbook so this is really simply you initial reactions, feelings, questions about what you have read. Thanks!

The Gr. 10 textbook was relatively accurate. It didn’t include too many details – instead, it summarized main ideas and provided a much generalized overview of the topic. The text did not capture a variety of perspectives – it focused on the Canadian participation at war, but not from different viewpoints. The text was objective. The material was oversimplified – I don’t believe it was intentionally distorted but it didn’t have a sense of being complete either. The text did focus on the key points, but it was very general. Lastly, the text did not offer differing interpretations of historical evidence.

Thanks, Nicole, for your assessment. Do you think that this issue should be examined from a variety of perspectives? Is it oversimplified in the sense that you think it glorifies our participation? Just wondering what your initial thoughts are about how it might have been tweaked.

Question: Compare and contrast Canada’s contribution to sea and air warfare. In which do you think Canada performed more effectively? Provide evidence.

Lesson Design: Key learning: Students will understand that Canada made a significant contribution to air and sea warfare during WW1

Critical Challenge: Compare and contrast Canada’s contribution to sea and air warfare. In which do you think Canada performed more effectively? Provide evidence. Well framed.

Skills for summative assessment: [news report] Students will be informed on the topic. It will encourage students to be intellectually courageous by assessing both sides fairly. Help students make a reasoned judgment. To help with their summative assessment, I will introduce students to a variety of primary and secondary sources on Canada's participation in air and sea warfare so they can compare and contrast sources to become intellectually courageous and make a reasoned judgement.

Historical Thinking: Evidence and interpretation - Based on historical evidence (looking at primary and secondary sources), students will interpret what they read and see to assess where Canada performed more effectively in war: air or at sea

Background Knowledge: (1) Assess Canada's participation in war and contributions to peacekeeping and security (2) Assess how individual Canadians have contributed to the development of Canada and the country's emerging sense of identity.

Skills needed: Knowledge on specific Canadian wartime individuals - Content on Canada's participation in war in air and at sea - Ability to think critically and make a reasoned judgment (also to know what it is to think critically and what is meant by reasoned judgment)

Criteria for Judgment:

Criteria for "assessing where Canada performed better?" - Level of positive recognition from within Canada and from the international community - Impact of victory - Costs of war (casualties, debt, etc) Better!

b) Criteria for news report: - informative and factual - pick 1 topic that you like and stick to it. don't do too much! - entertaining and captivating headline You didn't mention in your critical challenge (above) that students would be creating a news report during this lesson - is that what you were thinking about doing? It's a good tie in to the final summative but I would worry whether they would have time to complete a news report during the course of a single lesson. Or were you thinking they would be looking at news reports during the lesson? Let me know what you were thinking.

I was thinking I would look at various primary and secondary sources, during the lesson, including news reports yes, this is a good idea. I'd ask students to then write a brief news report (maybe with a word limit) for homework yes, you could - we'll discuss the place of homework a bit on Tuesday and some of the pros and cons of asking students to apply their knowledge for homework based on what they learned in class from the lesson and from their readings of the primary and secondary sources. To tie it into the critical challenge question, if they thought Canada performed more effectively in air than in water, their news report can focus on some aspect of Canada's participation in air warfare that impressed them. Let me know what you think

Habit of mind: Intellectual courage

Critical Thinking Vocab: Reasoned judgement