Week 5
Post date: Mar 01, 2010 6:18:19 PM
Homework for Friday - March 5th
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Homework for Thursday - March 4th
Horizons - Page 32 - Question # 3
Write a 1 page letter, putting yourself in the mindset of a pioneer from 1830.
Homework for Wednesday - March 3rd
Write your 2 paragraph response to Canada a People's History: The Pathfinders video in our Class Response Form
Paragraph 1 will cover topics from the first half of the video.
Paragraph 2 will cover events from the second half.
Homework for Tuesday - March 2nd
Create a Glossary of terms
You will need 23 terms found in Horizons from pages 10 - 26 ☺
These terms are highlighted in the beige boxes on the sides of the page.
There will be a brief quiz on some of these terms later next week.
Movie - Response Paragraph (due Wednesday)
Today we watched part 1 of Canada a People's History: The Pathfinders
Key highlights
Opening Vignette
2:30-5:42
David Thompson, as HBC clerk to Churchill
Episode Beginning
6:24-13:10
Des Groseilliers & Radisson, fur trade, Charles II created HBC
The River Route
13:10-18:10
Western Interior, Pierre de la Vérendrye
5 of 13
Life at the Bay
18:10-22:34
David Thompson, fur trade, Cree
A Journey to the North
22:34-28:43
Samuel Hearne, search for rumoured copper mine, expedition, Bloody Falls attack
The Nor' Westers
28:43-33:09
English vs. French systems of fur trade, North West Company, HBC moves inland
In The Shadow Of The Rockies
33:09-38:01
Thompson travels to the Rockies, Piegan & story of smallpox epidemic
The Voyageurs
38:01-42:30
Fur trade continues to grow, Daniel Harmon, voyageurs, portages
The Winterer
42:30-47:11
Cree/Assiniboine, Harmon, country marriages, Métis
Looking at Stars
47:11-50:42
Thompson studies surveying, the key to map making; charts the North west
