Teachers' Resources
Introduction
Grade
7
Grade
9 & 10
Grade 11 & 12 Province of Alberta Curriculum:
The Social Studies 20, 23, 30 and 33 curricula correspond to the content of The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum Web site in several areas. Teachers will find useful materials for:
Social Studies 20A: Development and Interaction of Nations:
Nineteenth Century Europe (especially Theme III: Imperialism and Theme IV:
International Conflict);
Social Studies 23:A: The Development of the Modern World;
Social Studies 23B: Challenges in the Global Environment;
Social Studies 30A: Political and Economic Systems;
Social Studies 30B: Global Interaction in the Twentieth Century;
Social Studies 33A: Political and Economic Systems; and
Social Studies 33B: Global Interaction in the 20th
Century.
In particular, Canada's Military History helps to illustrate the role of Canada during some of the key issues and events that the curriculum exmines. Also see Grade 10 Student Activities and Review Sheets.
Activity #1
With the aid of the Computer Science department, have students design components of a web site on one aspect of the curriculum. Remember to observe copyright law. Compile the components into a single site. Be sure to include a link to The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum Web site (and other relevant links).
Activity #2
Prepare students to undertake an oral history project. Students should be responsible for contacting a suitable individual (who served either as a veteran or on the homefront), preparing an interview format, and conducting a post-interview evaluation of their findings. Since oral history goes beyond the mere telling of history and, in fact, acts as a primary source for others interested in the topic, students should be encouraged to make their efforts available on the World Wide Web.
Russell G. Hann, "Oral History," in Clio's Craft: A Primer of Historical Methods, ed. Terry Crowley (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman Ltd., 1988), 42-64.
History is a divisive discipline in that one event can be interpreted in many different ways. These different interpretations form the historiography of an event. Introduce students to the concept of historiography through the CBC production, The Valour and the Horror, particularly the episode entitled "Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command" (NFB, 1991).
http://www.valourandhorror.com/home.htm
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/ISSUE/
Senate_hearings.htm
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/STORY/
normandy_script.htm#mineshafts
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/
secondwar/dieppe
David J. Bercuson and S.F. Wise, eds., The Valour and the Horror Revisited. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994.
Anne Collins, "The Battle over the Valour and the Horror," Saturday Night (May 1993): 45-49 and 72-79.
Establish a series of debates on important but controversial topics in Canadian military and civil history. The debates might examine questions such as: Was British Imperialism beneficial to its colonies? Was the Great War inevitable? Was conscription necessary? Was Canada' wartime treatment of Japanese Canadians just (or necessary)? Should Canada participate in NATO? (or the United Nations)
Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will is often considered one of the most powerful pieces of propaganda ever produced. View (teacher previewed) selections of it and discuss the role and techniques of propaganda in Nazi Germany. This documentary and a teacher's guide is available through the Social Studies School Service at <http://socialstudies.com>.
Canada's Military History
Activity #3
Each year "Freedom to Read Week" is celebrated across Canada. Have the class prepare a list of books (or other materials) that have been previously banned in Canada; students can select an item from that list and investigate the circumstances and reasons why some thought that censoring the item was necessary. Was the movement to restrict readership justified in that particular case? How does such censorship resemble or differ from the burning of books by German Nazis?
http://www.hackcanada.com/canadian/freedom/
freedomchron/chronicle.html
Activity #4
This Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum Web site contains several contemporary cartoons that provide commentary on wartime events and issues. Have artistic students identify a relevant theme or issue and create a cartoon. This cartoon might, for example, imitate the work of J.W. Bengough or Bernard Partridge, or might be in the distinctive style of the student.
Have students read The National Post or the Toronto Globe and Mail (or some other relevant newspaper) for a week or two and construct a collage of events in which police or military authorities have ensured individual or collective rights or helped to deny them. Is the experience of Canadians arguably different from that of other countries? If so, how?
Activity #5
The Canadian War Museum contains one of the world's largest collections of war art. Examples from this collection are reproduced on the Loyal Edmonton Regiment Web site. Have students select a particular painting or artist and present an analysis of that work/artist to the class.
Various locations
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/cwmeng/cwmeng.html
Tippett, Maria, Art At the Service of War: Canada, Art and the Great War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Canadian Museum of Civilization, La Guerre en Tableaux : Les Artistes Officiels Canadiens de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale / Painting The War: Canada's Second World War Official Artists(1995) (CD-ROM)
Canadian Military History (various issues)
The Beaver (various issues)
Canada produced one of the most famous war poets in John McCrae, author of the influential poem, "In Flanders' Fields." Have students prepare an analysis of a war poet or a particular poem.
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/mccrae
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Baker, Kenneth, ed. The Faber Book of War Poetry. London: Faber and Faber, 1996.
Stallworthy, John, ed. The Oxford Book of War Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
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