Westward Expansion
You will design a comprehensive project that illustrates the changes coming to the Prairies as a result of westward expansion following Confederation. The changes focus on 1. The End of the Fur Trade and the Arrival of the first European settlers, 2. Tensions and Resistance, 3. Treaties, 4. Construction of the CPR and western settlement.
Your project must use primary documents based on your own research (pictures, letters, excerpts, objects from online museums), explanations of the relevance of these primary documents. Your project must tell a story that illustrates change over time, and it must address issues of adjustment to new circumstances.
You will choose your mode of presentation and interaction with your audience.
All your ideas and parameters of the project must be discussed and agreed upon with your teacher and written up in a formal one-to-two-page proposal, typed, double-spaced. Your proposal must include a general overview over your main points, reference to some details, references you are planning to use, as well as timelines of progress and final presentation as well as mode of presentation including feedback.
Your project must use primary documents based on your own research (pictures, letters, excerpts, objects from online museums), explanations of the relevance of these primary documents. Your project must tell a story that illustrates change over time, and it must address issues of adjustment to new circumstances.
You will choose your mode of presentation and interaction with your audience.
All your ideas and parameters of the project must be discussed and agreed upon with your teacher and written up in a formal one-to-two-page proposal, typed, double-spaced. Your proposal must include a general overview over your main points, reference to some details, references you are planning to use, as well as timelines of progress and final presentation as well as mode of presentation including feedback.