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1. Interview activity
Write a personal introduction or short bio with a self-portrait in any medium.
Pair with another classmate to conduct a reciprocal interview on the topic of immigration, whether you have a personal story to share
or have family members or friends/acquaintances who are immigrants.
(Here netiquette is imperative and courteous questioning when conducting the interview is a prerequisite. Through reviewing these interviews, the teacher should be able to identify students who have difficult immigration stories and may not be comfortable sharing them, and, therefore, bear in mind their sensitivities through out the course).
2. Describe the ethno-economic landscape of immigrants to Canada in the 1800s – Using a jigsaw (jigsaw.org) technique.
(Students may work in small groups to locate and compile a list of web resources on immigration to Canada in the 1800s, and these resources may then be shared on the discussion board.)
3. Role play / biography activity
Based on your research of the three groups of immigrants, and using a timeline that reflects events in one immigrant’s life, depict a short bio of that immigrant’s life, allowing others to see life from the viewpoint of that immigrant.
Subsequently, you may respond to questions on the discussion board by answering them as their “character” would.
(This interaction will take place on individual student-blogs).
4. Compare and contrast the experience of 1800s immigrants vis-à-vis that of modern day immigrants to Canada.
5. Reflection activity
Based on the course material, and the research hitherto conducted, what do all three immigrant-groups (different as they may be) have in common? What universal human emotions do they share as strangers newly arrived in a strange land?
6. Time capsule activity
What personal belongings might a typical immigrant family of the 1800s have brought with them along the journey to Canada, considering the different backgrounds of all three immigrant-groups?
7. Virtual tour activity
Students may be asked to go on a virtual tour of all the geographic/historic locations associated with the Canadian Confederation, and to describe their experiences on the discussion board.
8. Debate activity
Travelling back in time, imagine hypothetical arguments for and against the Canadian Confederation.
9. Different outcome activity
Research the War of 1812 (wherein the United States attempted and failed to annex Canada), and list 3 things that could have changed that outcome.