Grade 11 - Francophone Hist and Cult

FRANCOPHONE HISTORY AND CULTURE 11

Curricular Competency

Content

Big Ideas

The physical environment influences the nature of demographic, geopolitical, and social change.

Social/collective identity is influenced by language and constantly changes over time.

The survival of a language and its related cultures requires the involvement of multiple stakeholders in the community.

Francophone communities influence Canadian society as a whole.

Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions

Assess the significance of people, places, events, and developments, and compare varying perspectives on their significance at particular times and places, and from group to group (significance)

Assess the justification for competing accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence, including data (evidence)

Compare and contrast continuities and changes for different groups in Francophone Canada (continuity and change)

Assess how prevailing conditions and the actions of individuals or groups influence events, decisions, or developments (cause and consequence)

Infer and explain different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, or events by considering prevailing norms, values, worldviews, and beliefs (perspective)

Make reasoned ethical judgments about actions in the past and present, and determine appropriate ways to remember and respond (ethical judgment)

building Francophone identity in Canada

various characteristics of Francophone communities in Canada

interaction of Francophone populations with their environment

local, regional, and national co-operation and conflicts between different groups, including First Peoples

cultural and social development and social movements

linguistic rights and discriminatory policies in Canada

self-determination of Francophone nations