Bond Academy 1500 Birchmount Road Toronto, ON M1P2G4

Name: Date: Monday, March 25, 2013 Teacher: Bond Academy Course: Canadian History Since World War I, Grade 10, Academic

Letters Home Pretend you are living in Canada during the Roaring Twenties and the Dirty Thirties. Your task is to write two letters to your family back in Europe. One letter should be written in the 1920s and the other in the 1930s. The purpose of this assignment is to differentiate social, political, and economic life in Canada between the 1920s and the 1930s. Overall Expectations SPV.01

analyse how changing economic and social conditions have affected Canadians since 1914

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Criteria

Level 1 (50% - 59%)

Level 2 (60% - 69%)

Level 3 (70% - 79%)

Level 4 (80% - 100%)

Knowledge and Understanding

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Planning: 1) create a list defining 10 terms from each decade; 2) create a t-chart differentiating the 1920s from the 1930s

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Your letters are creative and engaging (funny, sad, interesting, etc.)

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Use appropriate vocabulary and terminology (please use bold font for your selected terms)

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a high degree of effectiveness: use of 10 terms per letter

Does your letter look and sound like a letter? Use appropriate style and tone for your purpose and audience.

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Make connections between the 1920s and the 1930s (describe how things have changed)

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Make connections between your characters personal life and the social, cultural and political events occurring in Canada

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Demonstrate your understanding of social, political and economic life in the 1920s and 1930s. Thinking

Communication

Application

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