EDUCATION

This section features a teacher’s guide to the website, lesson plans for classroom use, and historical exercises that can be used in the classroom or as an enrichment exercise for motivated students.

Teacher’s Guide

Link: Teachers guide.pdf

Lesson: Insider and Outsider Perspectives: Cantonese Opera in Canada, 1920-1960

• Grade Level: 7-9 and Secondary I-III (Quebec)
• Course Links: History, Art, Language Arts

Lesson: Stories of Citizenship: Using Oral History to Understand the Past

• Grade Level: 11-12 and Secondary V (Quebec)
• Course Links: History, Language Arts, Law, Social Studies

Lesson: "Every person of Chinese origin or descent...": Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws in Canada, 1885-1967

• Grade Level: 9-12 and Secondary III-V (Quebec)
• Course Links: History, Social Studies, Law

Lesson: Community Involvement, Then and Now

• Grade Level: 9-10 and Secondary III-IV (Quebec)
• Classes: History, Social Studies, Women’s Studies, Language Arts

Historical Exercise: Working with Oral History

• Grade Level: 7-12 and Secondary I-V (Quebec)
• Classes: History, Social Studies

Link: Working with Oral History.pdf

Historical Exercise: Working with Photographs

• Grade Level: 7-12 and Secondary I-V (Quebec)
• Classes: History, Social Studies

Link: Working with Photographs.pdf