WRCA Social Studies 10 Final Exam Outline
The Expectations
for your History 12 final exam are as follows:
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You
will write two essay responses
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You
will be prepared to respond to all 4 topics shown below
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Only 2
of the 4 potential topics will be given on the exam
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Each
essay must have an excellent thesis statement
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Each
essay must incorporate specific pieces of evidence to support your arguments.
Generalizations and broad statements are unhelpful and will not count.
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Each
essay must be organized according to the thesis in order to be eligible to
receive full marks
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Vocabulary
words should be seamlessly interwoven throughout
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Vocabulary
words must be underlined
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Each
essay response will be graded according to the same essay scoring rubric that
your unit tests have been evaluated with over the course of the semester (see
reverse)
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Each
essay will be scored out of 30 marks, making the exam out of 60 marks in total
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You
will write the essays by hand
1. Assess whether the
Canadian government’s “Last Best West” propaganda campaign provide prospective
immigrants with a fair and balanced perception of what life would be like in
Canada?
2. Discuss how the province of British Columbia was socially, economically and politically transformed over the course of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
3. Compare and contrast the leadership styles of John A. MacDonald with Louis Riel: how did their political ideologies and personal convictions impact Canada?
4. Evaluate the overall experience that various ethnic groups faced in their quest to become Canadian. What types of obstacles and challenges did immigrants face over the course of the19th and 20th centuries.
- Done! :)
2. Discuss how the province of British Columbia was socially, economically and politically transformed over the course of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
- CPR Railway
- Gold Rush
- Immigration
- Rual life -> city life/urbanization
- Establishment of colony on mainland
- Transformation of fishing, minor and timber industries
3. Compare and contrast the leadership styles of John A. MacDonald with Louis Riel: how did their political ideologies and personal convictions impact Canada?
- Minority Rights
- Motives/Driving Forces
- Approach to Problem Solving
- Political Platform
- Personality
- Legacy
4. Evaluate the overall experience that various ethnic groups faced in their quest to become Canadian. What types of obstacles and challenges did immigrants face over the course of the19th and 20th centuries.
- Loyalists
- Jews
- Asian (Chinese)
- Eastern European
- Irish
- French
