Fathers of Confederation (full)

Good afternoon!
Today we will be reviewing information about the fathers of confederation and preparing to speak about them

Review
John A Macdonald Video

George-Etienne Cartier Video

New

Go to My Canada on you computer
Click History
Click Confederation
Click "Achieving Confederation"
Click Beginner, then listen, read and answer the questions.
After that you can also try "Causes of Confederation", "Macdonald's National Policy" and "Manitoba becomes a province"

Explore

Read and learn more about the Fathers of Confederation in the Canadian Encyclopedia

Sir George-Etienne Cartier general

Cartier timeline

Sir John A Macdonald general

Macdonald timeline

Confederation timeline

Citizenship book

Discover Canada- History section

Fathers of Confederation

Watch these videos for practice test

John A Macdonald

You have the paper for the practice test. 
It looks like this:

Sir George Etienne Cartier

Confederation for March Break

Some things to explore if you have some time during March break

An easier reading about confederation

A more difficult reading for Confederation


Don't forget about history at http://citizenshipcounts.ca/guide/history2/

You can explore the rest of the website at
 http://citizenshipcounts.ca/

For vocabulary and grammar practice every day, you might want to try duolingo.com

~> make a profile
~> choose the language you know and then choose English as the one you want to learn

Canada's History- confederation

Good afternoon!

We will be learning about Canada's History.

Provinces and Territories
You can practice Canada's Geography here.
It has ways to practice the provinces and territories.

Confederation at citizenship counts
Click here. Focus on 1, 5,6,7,8,9

Look at a timeline of Confederation here.


General History
Quick facts about Canada
Early Canadian History
Famous Canadian from before confederation: Laura Secord

Grammar

Practice for, since and ago here (lots of reading)
Practice for and since here