History and another tidbit of wisdom from Alice

History

The Success Criteria for both the RAFTS assignment and the Inquiry are now complete and will be posted on GC very shortly.

Throughout the process of the Inquiry, I have attempted to model parts of the assignment.   One topic I looked at was the history of the Black Loyalists in Canada.  Here is a very short example of Stage 1 and Stage 2/3:

If this was a real project, the attempt to answer questions would be a lot stronger.

UPDATE:  I am using this lesson to update and bring this project a little more to `life`with a lesson I have done, or will be doing, with the other classes:

In the epic novel The Book of Negores, author Lawrence Hill introduces us to Aminanta Diallo who chronicles her travels from being stolen from west Africa, sold into slavery in the United States, and her journey to Nova Scotia.  Eventually, she returns to Sierra Leone, but that is not part of this lesson.

The Book of Negroes was first on-air back in January of 2015.  I am going to show a short clip and link this with the concept

https://watch.cbc.ca/the-book-of-negroes/season-1/episode-5/38e815a-0096573a06e

The environment for the newly arrived Black Loyalists was not entirely peaceful.  There was a long established history of Slavery in Nova Scotia (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/black-enslavement/ & https://earlycanadianhistory.ca/2016/02/29/canadian-fugitive-slave-advertisements-an-untapped-archive-of-resistance/) which was very challenging, no doubt.  In the small section I just showed you, the location was Birchtown, Nova Scotia, which is close to a well-established Black community in Shelburne:  https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Birchtown,+Nova+Scotia+B0T+1W0/@43.7552155,-65.6268285,10.08z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4b568c5405fd6089:0xb48e8efefc3f681e!8m2!3d43.747735!4d-65.3786529

Hopefully, by now, you will see the value in studying History.  Fast-forward 224 years, some of the issues around the land promised for the original Black settlers are still present:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/09/27/nova-scotia-giving-black-residents-2-7-million-to-settle-land-rights_a_23225109/

Originally I thought this was a topic relating to Continuity and Change.  It is, but I would change it now to Historical Significance because it is an important part of our Nation's History.

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