NYT for Thursday, History Inquiry Project thinking, Toronto's "The Ward" neighbourhood, helpful Order of Operation image

New York Times inferencing exercise 

History:

Over the next few periods, the specific details of the History Inquiry/Project will be shared with you.  For now, we will be thinking a little bit about the topics that may interest us and where we should look for some of that information.

I will be posting a list of tentative topics here and on Google Classroom for you to think about.  

The older textbooks in the class might be a place to begin browsing, but the Virtual Library is a solid place to begin.  I am going to post the link for it here and in the links section.  http://www.tdsb.on.ca/library/HOME/schoolno/5218

There is an extensive list of possible topics to explore.  I am going to post them here and on Google Classroom.

As I said before, I will be explaining what some of these items relate to so you have a better understanding of what you are researching.  For the first stage of the research, you are asking questions and poking around to see what you may be interested in researching.

Item 1 is where we will be spending some time for now.

You can ask Ms. Ling, or myself, questions, and you may want to think of visiting the Gladstone Branch of the Toronto Public Library.

I did not post any of the information from our class discussion, a couple of days ago, on The Ward.

taken from http://www.blogto.com/city/2012/06/a_brief_history_of_the_ward_torontos_notorious_slum/

from  http://www.wardmuseum.ca/thewardourlivinghistory/

Bound by College Street to the north, Queen Street to the south, University Avenue to the west and Yonge Street to the east, the Ward was where many newcomers to Toronto from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century first settled. It was a densely populated neighbourhood and at various points home to African-Canadians, refugees from the Irish Potato Famine, African-Americans who escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad, Russian and Eastern European Jews, Italian and Chinese immigrants, and many more. Prior to this, the area was a site of human activity for at least 15,000 years, with the land most recently being the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit River (Ontario First Nations Maps, 2016). Amid protest, residents of the Ward were eventually pushed out of the neighbourhood. Businesses, churches, synagogues, theatres, and shops closed as residents were moved out of the area. Buildings were demolished to make way for hospitals, government buildings, department stores, a bus terminal, new City Hall and Nathan Phillip Square.

The amount of information is wonderful and says so much about our city.  To see some of the of the early community members of The War, stories, please check out:  http://www.wardmuseum.ca/picturingtheward/theward/

From my reading, a lot of the stories about the neighbourhood have been pejorative.  In this context, that word refers to something being insulting.  Often, this community was referred to as an "immigrant slum", but this bustling community was a vibrant home to so many people, who were often poor yet working hard to create something new.

This video captures some images from some of the earliest immigrants in Toronto, who often had cause to leave where they were originally from (Jews in Russia, Irish fleeing famine, African-Americans coming to Canada via the Underground Railway) and, consequentially, developed the early blueprint of multiracial/multicultural Toronto.

Mathematics:

A helpful slide which demonstrates how to take one step at a time in a BEDMAS/Order of Operations type question:

It seems like there are a lot of goodies from this site:  https://www.tes.com/lessons/RdcBdPBBMrYnwQ/pedmas