Grade 9: Social Studies
Collective rights
Assess the significance of people, places, events, or developments, and compare varying perspectives on their historical significance at particular times and places, and from group to group (significance). Sample activity: Compare and contrast the events considered by English-Canadian, French-Canadian, and First Peoples scholars to be the most significant during this period.
Assess the justification for competing historical accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence (evidence). Sample activities:
- Identify primary sources (e.g., original documents, political cartoons, interviews, surveys) and secondary sources (e.g., textbooks, articles, reports, summaries, historical monographs) for selected topics.
- Plan and conduct research using primary and secondary sources, including sources from a range of media types (e.g., print news, broadcast news, online sources) representing a range of perspectives.
- Assess information sources for selected topics in terms of bias and point of view.
Key question: What evidence is there that imperialism and colonialism still influence present-day relationships between countries and groups?
Discriminatory policies and injustices in Canada and the world, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and World War I internment. Sample topics:
- Head Tax and other discriminatory immigration policies against people of East and South Asian descent
- Komagata Maru
- societal attitudes toward ethnic minorities in Canada (e.g., Chinese railway workers, Sikh loggers, Eastern European farmers, Irish famine refugees, African-American slavery refugees)
- discriminatory policies toward First Peoples, such as the Indian Act, potlatch ban, residential schools
- internments
- social history
- gender issues
- suffrage
- labour history, workers’ rights
- responses to discrimination in Canada
- Asiatic Exclusion League in BC
- discrimination against German Canadians during World War I
Key question: How might specific examples of past incidents of inequality (e.g., Head Tax on Chinese immigrants, internment of Japanese Canadians, residential schools, suffrage, discriminatory federal government labour practices related to gender and sexual orientation) be handled today under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Indigenous rights
Assess the significance of people, places, events, or developments, and compare varying perspectives on their historical significance at particular times and places, and from group to group (significance). Sample activity: Compare and contrast the events considered by English-Canadian, French-Canadian, and First Peoples scholars to be the most significant during this period.
Recognize implicit and explicit ethical judgments in a variety of sources (ethical judgment). Key question: Was the Indian Act an unfortunate but well-meaning mistake or was it a shameful abuse of power? What lessons can we learn from the effects of this legislation?
Imperialism and colonialism, and their continuing effects on indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world. Sample topics:
- Impact of treaties on First Peoples (e.g., numbered treaties, Vancouver Island treaties)
- Impact of the Indian Act, including reservations and the residential school system
- Interactions between Europeans and First Peoples
Key question: What role does imperialism and colonialism from this period (1750–1919) have on events in present-day Canada and around the world?
Discriminatory policies and injustices in Canada and the world, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and World War I internment. Sample topics:
- Head Tax and other discriminatory immigration policies against people of East and South Asian descent
- Komagata Maru
- societal attitudes toward ethnic minorities in Canada (e.g., Chinese railway workers, Sikh loggers, Eastern European farmers, Irish famine refugees, African-American slavery refugees)
- discriminatory policies toward First Peoples, such as the Indian Act, potlatch ban, residential schools
- internments
- social history
- gender issues
- suffrage
- labour history, workers’ rights
- responses to discrimination in Canada
- Asiatic Exclusion League in BC
- discrimination against German Canadians during World War I
Key question: How might specific examples of past incidents of inequality (e.g., Head Tax on Chinese immigrants, internment of Japanese Canadians, residential schools, suffrage, discriminatory federal government labour practices related to gender and sexual orientation) be handled today under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Treaty rights
Imperialism and colonialism, and their continuing effects on indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world. Sample topics:
- Impact of treaties on First Peoples (e.g., numbered treaties, Vancouver Island treaties)
- Impact of the Indian Act, including reservations and the residential school system
- Interactions between Europeans and First Peoples
Key question: What role does imperialism and colonialism from this period (1750–1919) have on events in present-day Canada and around the world?