CYCLE 2 RESOURCE COLLECTIONS
Year 1 and Year 2

The following resource collections are being created to support the new Cycle 2 History and Citizenship program in Quebec. Many of the collections were structured to support approaches used in LES's being developed by LEARN (login required!).

Year 1 resources are gathered according to periods, concepts and strategies that respond to the designated focus. Year 2 collections repurpose and expand upon existing resources, and take a thematic approach. For more information, or to suggest resources or additional links you have found helpful in your teaching and learning, contact us directly using the Social Sciences feedback form.

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YEAR 2 - Population and Settlement

The following resource collection was designed to support the developing LEARN LES on Population for Year 2 of the Cycle 2 program.

...After first considering the population and settlement in our own communities and in Quebec in general, we can look back on population trends from 1500 onward, from the Native world to the present. Concepts such as Identity, Pluriculturality, Migration, Growth and Belonging are explored, and students enact their citizenship by considering the "Diversity of social identities and sense of belonging to Québec society."

This resource collection proposes questions students might consider and an organization of useful websites by period and by concept.

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YEAR 2 - Economy and Development

Students should first gain a perspective on the economic development of Quebec today. Then students could examine and interpret the way the economy in Quebec and Canada developed over time, from 1500 to the present, all the while considering how that economic development impacted on the organization of territory and society, of regions and the various peoples involved.

This resource collection is intended to support Learning Situations that follow a similar strategy described above. For now it is organized by chronological reference points and then by Key Concepts, Cultural References, and includes focus on the "Elsewhere element" of China.

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YEAR 2 - Culture and Currents of Thought

The following resource collection was initially designed to support the Learning and Evaluation Situation (LES) entitled " Ideology, Mass Media and Cultural Expression" That LES offers students the chance to examine historical examples of cultural expression throughout Canadian history, and then to critique a contemporary work of art ... in order to answer the guiding question: Do ideas communicated through mass media always threaten local cultural expression!?

To match the QEP program, this collection organizes resources related to "currents of thought" first around periods of time. It then offers examples of "cultural expression" that (one could argue) either reflect or reject those predominant and subversive currents of thought.

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YEAR 1 - First Peoples of Quebec

The following collection gathers together Maps, Images, links related to Economic activities, Oral Traditions and Spirituality, and Social and Political Organization. The designated focus of this section of the new Secondary Cycle 2 History and Citizenship Course in Quebec is the "Link between First Peoples' conception(s) of the world and the organization of their societies."

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YEAR 1 - The Emergence of a New Society in New France

The following is a collection of links and resources supporting the New France Society section of the new History and Citizenship program. The designated focus for the student to study the way "programs of colonization" impacted on the organization of the society and territory of New France.

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YEAR 1 - A Change of Empire

A collection of links and resources supporting the Change of Empire section of the new Cycle 2 History and Citizenship course. This section of the site is under construction. At the moment collections of suggested resources are forming around various events around the time of conquest, and also based on the following divisions: Military Initiatives; Treaties, Acts and new Political Realities; and Cultural and Social Upheaval.

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YEAR 1 - Claims and Struggles in the British Colony

This collection of links and resources supporting t the new Cycle 2 History and Citizenship course, section dealing with struggles for democracy in Upper and Lower Canada, will focus on ideas regarding Liberalism, International Factors, Power structures, and Nationalism in Quebec Today. The collection is under construction, and feedback and suggestions are welcome.

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YEAR 1 - Formation of the Canadian Confederation

This collection will gather together resources and references appropriate to the time periods preceding and following Canadian Confederation. Links related to Economic change and Industrial development will be gathered here, Demographic movements and Working Conditions will be explored. The Political Realities that take place in the New Territory of Canada will also be outlined here in the context of the designated focus: that very dynamic between industrialization and the social, territorial and political changes of the times.

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YEAR 1 - Modernization of Quebec

Here you will find various collections of links and resources that trace events associated with the Modernization of Quebec. The designated focus of this section of the Cycle 2, Year 1 course asks students to consider "the dynamic between changes in mentality and the role of the state." These collections or groupings of historical knowledge, arranged thematically for now, can provide a base for exploring and explaining the evolution of a that changing mentality.

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YEAR 1 - Issues in Quebec since 1980

This collection of links and resources supports the section of the new Cycle 2 History and Citizenship course dealing with current issues since 1980. Cultural Issues are explored, Political and Constitutional events are put into question, Values and Principals Associated with Democracy are outlined, as is biographical information about Key Figures of the times. Students are asked to pose questions on relevant issues in Quebec since 1980, and to establish a historical perspective based on previous learning. It is hoped that these resources might provide the teacher and student with starting points in their investigations and debates.

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