Worlds Collide
Pre-viewing Questions
Chapter One:Worlds Collide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdOQE459vg&list=PLJyG4btas2dkKZXp5fxgeGWmbakN-KfM6
- How important do you think it is for you to be well informed about the important events, people and places of Canadian history?
- Name five possible topics, subjects, events, or people that you think should be included in “The Story of Us.”
- Comment on the following quote: The purpose of the series is “to celebrate the achievements of our nation and deeper our understanding of how Canada became the country it is today. It is a celebration of how we transformed our differences into understanding creating an identity that is uniquely diverse.” (CBC, Canada: The Story of Us).
Chapter One:Worlds Collide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdOQE459vg&list=PLJyG4btas2dkKZXp5fxgeGWmbakN-KfM6
- What are the big ideas of Prime Minister Trudeau’s introduction?
- According to Roberta Jamieson, “The founding peoples of Canada are the __________________________.”
- Which two worlds collided “at the dawn of the 17th century”?
- Jennifer Podemskicalls the arrival of Europeans “the inciting incident in the creation of Canada and the story we’re living today.” An inciting incident is sometimes described as the moment the problem begins and in other times as the event that begins the plot. Which definition, do you think, she means to use here?
- What was the purpose of Samuel Champlain’s voyage to the New World?
- What was Canada’s first fortified city?
- Christopher Plummer says that nature “is the dilemma of Canada” and that the weather would “overwhelm anyone who lived here.” Whom is Plummer speaking about? Do you think he has left anyone out? If so, whom?
- What was the “resource” from which “was born the dream of Canada”?
- Duncun Mccue states the First Nations controlled __________________________.
- Who were the “King’s Daughters” and what was there purpose?
- Fur traders Radisson and des Groseilliers changed Canadian history by doing what?
- How was the Hudson’s Bay Company born?
- What happens on September 13, 1759 on the Plains of Abraham?
- What is the legacy of colonization that Hayden King refers to?
- How would you describe the indigenous peoples living in what would become Canada before and during European contact?