The Assignment

The assignment for you is to maintain an electronic portfolio kept either on the hard drive or a disk.
You may choose to use a number of different ways to present your information including emails, databases, spreadsheets, charts, word process documents, hypertext stacks, etc. Use as many ways as you can.
Your portfolio should include relevant articles (other than the ones given in the web page), on-line songs, personal reflections, emails (interviews or opinions), chat line comments, unanswered questions and opinions of others.
Included in the First Nation's web site on unity (a link from the web page) is the email addresses of each premier of the provinces as well as the prime minister. You may email your opinion on a current issue such as the separation issue, the environment, etc. You may also choose to email a series of questions in the form of an interview and wait to see if you get a response.
There is also a link created in this web page in which you can trace back your ancestors. This, however, does cost money. With parents permission you can trace your heritage and create a family tree (maybe using a draw program).
There are many documents provided as links in the web page for information. Read some or all of them and keep journals on your opinions or reflections. Some starters to help are:
Write a journal entry about a day in the life of a Canadian bird. What would it see? Write a poem about what it is like to be a Canadian.
You could surf the web to find:

Expectations

Please note that most of the information above was taken from "Thinking Critically in Social Studies," by Roland Case at Simon Fraser University.