Grade 11: Francophone history

Compare and contrast continuities and changes for different groups in Francophone Canada (continuity and change). Key questions:

What factors lead to changes or continuities affecting groups of people differently?
How do gradual processes and more sudden rates of change affect people living through them? Which method of change has more of an effect on society?
How are periods of change or continuity perceived by the people living through them? How does this compare to how they are perceived after the fact?

Sample activity: Compare how different groups benefited or suffered as a result of a particular change.

Building Francophone identity in Canada. Sample topics:

Official Languages Act (1969) and its impacts and evolution
Development of a Québec identity, and the transition from a French-Canadian identity to various provincial Francophone identities in the aftermath of the Quiet Revolution
Influence of the Québec state (e.g., control of the media and education) in promoting a Québec identity at the expense of a French-Canadian one from the Quiet Revolution to the present
Development of a bilingual identity from 2000 to the present
Involvement of Francophones in the federal government (e.g., Louis H. La Fontaine, Wilfrid Laurier, Louis St-Laurent, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Jean Chrétien, Jacques Hébert)

Local, regional, and national co-operation and conflicts between different groups, including First Peoples. Sample topics:

Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-68)
October Crisis (1970)
creation of the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada (1975)
Québec independence referendums (1980 and 1995)

Linguistic rights and discriminatory policies in Canada. Sample topics: