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Description: This activity will involve analyzing three advertisements from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company encouraging settlement in Manitoba. The purpose of this activity is to give your students practice in analyzing digital primary sources and to understand the context in which it was made. Incorporating sources from UBC Library’s Open Collections into your classroom can help students build their historical thinking through analyzing, contextualizing, and inferring using historical texts.

Keywords: Primary Sources; Settlement; Canada; Advertisements; Canadian Pacific Railway; Manitoba

Learning Standards: Take stakeholders’ perspectives on issues, developments, or events by making inferences about their beliefs, values, and motivations (perspective) Ask questions, corroborate inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and origins of a variety of sources, including mass media (evidence)

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Description: This PowerPoint presents a history of the Tour de France from its inception, and the challenges that participants face during the entire race. Videos present information about Drafting, Cracking, and the dangers of this intense bicycle race which happens annually in July in France. Students will also see some of the best moments from last year's Tour de France and a 3D rendition of the race route for 2018. Students are presented with pre-viewing questions and will respond to them after the videos.

Learning Standards: Grade 9 Curriculum Big Idea: - Listening and viewing with intent strengthens our understanding and acquisition of French. Content: - describing cultural aspects of communities - cultural practices, traditions, and attitudes in various Francophone regions Curricular Competencies: - Use a growing variety of strategies to increase understanding - Seek clarification and provide verification of meaning through a variety of strategies - ask and respond to questions on familiar topics - describe people, objects, places, and personal interests - compare and contrast characteristics of people, objects, places, and personal interests - describe sequences of events - express opinions on familiar topics

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