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Description, Impact and Revealing

Description, Impact and Revealing. “The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.” - Will Ferguson. Description. Describe the person/place/ event in appropriate detail

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Description, Impact and Revealing

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  1. Description, Impact and Revealing

  2. “The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.”- Will Ferguson

  3. Description • Describe the person/place/ event in appropriate detail • Answering “Who What Where When” questions

  4. Impact • How might we be different today, if this persons/place event never happened? • How has our understanding of (science, sports or medicine etc) changed by knowing this?

  5. Revealing • Why should we care about this topic? • How is this person/place/event like others? • How did researching this topic make you feel or think about how Canadians should be acting or doing relative to other topics?

  6. How do you get there?Ask Many Questions • Focus on the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ questions

  7. First question • Why was the railroad built? TOO BROAD!!! • Look at some of your own answers to this question through your preliminary research • It was important to connect East and West, British Columbia needed it to be a part of Canada, military purposes, the United States already had one and was prospering, economically it would bring money… etc.

  8. Narrow down, ask more ‘whys’ • Why did British Columbia need the railroad built? Again… TOO BROAD!! • What do we know about British Columbia and the railroad? • British Columbia was cut off from the rest of Canada • Relations were better with the US than the rest of Canada – some saw this as a threat…

  9. Asking the ‘How’ questions. • How did the railroad get built? Again… too broad. • Many different ways to go with this… • How did the engineers come to their decision to lay the track where they did? • What role did corruption play in building the railroad? • What is the story behind the immigrants that built the railroads? But these are still broad questions

  10. Take one aspect… • Example. What is the story behind the immigrants that built the railroads? • Ask more questions: • Who were they? • How did they live their lives? • How were they treated? • How did they their impact Canadian society?

  11. Consider all elements • Try and add all elements • Description (what you are talking about) • Impact (how is this relevant today) • Revealing (why should we care) So looking at the railroad…

  12. The immigrants who built the railroads? • Description: immigrants were treated badly, poor living conditions, pay, and laws worked against them. • Impact: treatment of these immigrants lead to the laws that exist today with regard to the treatment of immigrants • Revealing: Why should we care? Racism is very destructive.

  13. Tips • - Try starting with either “How has” or “Why has” • - Try to include your hypothetical impact of you topic • - Look for a powerful theme within your topic eg. racism, heroism, struggle against adversity, multiculturalism, discovery, French-English tensions, First Nations tensions, freedom

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