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Canadian History Since World War One
Course Overview February 2016
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MR. R. BERGMAN richard.bergman@tldsb.on.ca www.rbergman.weebly.com
Office: 223
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Taking this class means…
When I say History, you say: Powerpoints Binders Textbooks (???) How do you fail?
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Game time:
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And the others…
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EVALUATION The usual suspects Termwork 70% Culminating 30%
Final Summative 10% Final Exam 20%
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Typical Student Stuff Attendance Communication with your teacher Deadlines Respectful and Mature Suffering Constant checking of the course website- keep up to date
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More typical stuff… How do you fail again… A note on cell phones
A note on washrooms
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Canadian Identity So what does it mean to be Canadian?
History…that is what it means… Know history, know who we are…in fact, that is the only way to know anything, we must know the past
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MARCO POLO’S UNICORN Marco Polo- 13th century Italian explorer- recorded his travels across Asia to China and back Came across numerous animals and sights he had never seen before and didn’t understand. His recordings show us how we think of things within our own known perspectives
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MARCO POLO’S UNICORN “unicorns are scarcely smaller than elephants. They have hair of a buffalo and a single large black horn in the middle of the forehead. They are very ugly brutes to look at…not at all as we describe them to be…” What was he looking at, that he thought was a unicorn?
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THE POINT IS… Marco Polo used what he knew to understand what he didn’t know As historians we cannot put our present ideas into the events and minds of the past How to do this…well there’s a few ways of doing this-
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