Grade 8 Canadian History Bundle 1850 - 1914 French Edition


Canadian History 1850 – 1914 French Edition: Teachers are provided with 28 in-depth lessons to help their students explore and understand this era of Canadian history on Confederation, Western Settlement and Development, and Canada A Changing Society.

This unit integrates Language Arts (Reading, Writing, Oral, Media), History, Art and Drama subjects. Student pages are in French, teacher pages and answer keys are in English. Individual PDFs of each student page is included for use with Google Classroom™.

Includes These Units:

A. Création du Canada (1850-1890)

B. Une société en évolution (1890-1914)

Curriculum Alignment:

  • Ontario Social Studies Curriculum Grade 8 Strand A and B
  • New British Columbia Curriculum Grade 9
  • Alberta Social 7 Curriculum

Resource Includes:

  1. detailed unit plan, answer keys and assessment rubrics
  2. detailed teacher and student directions
  3. interactive note-taking graphic organizers
  4. assessment for, of and as learning breakdown
  5. lessons divided up with title pages for easy access
  6. student assignment choice and variety-
  7. detailed teacher and student directions
  8. Q Chart to help students formulate good questions
  9. inquiry stations research folder cover pages
  10. inquiry station cards with detailed instructions
  11. inquiry station graphic organizers to help students with their research
  12. oral presentation assessment rubric
  13. historical content assessment rubric
  14. differentiated assessment formats

Students must gather information and research for inquiry themselves from textbooks and other non-fiction sources. Research is not included.

Strand A Lesson Outline

1. Why Do We Study History?

2. How Did We Get Here?

3. How Has The Map of Canada Changed?

4. Life in British North America Prior to 1867

5. Fathers of Confederation Monologues

6. Politics in the Province of Canada

7. John A. Macdonald Personal and Professional Life

8. Confederation Advertisement Assignment

9. The Pros and Cons of Confederation

10. The Charlottetown, Quebec and London Conferences

10B. Missing Voices at the Confederation Conferences

10C. British North America Act

11. Confederation Unit Test

12. Primary Source Analysis Videos and Photos

13. Legal Documents

14. Settlement of Western Canada Inquiry Stations

15. Manitoba Act 1870

16. The Indian Act 1876

17. Louis Riel Obituary Assignment

18. Canadian Pacific Railroad Lyric Analysis

19. Canadian Pacific Railroad Assignment

20. Primary Source Analysis, Video, and Creative Writing – The Gold Rush

21. The Chinese Immigration Act 1885

22. The Arctic and Indigenous Case Law

23. Numbered Treaties

24. Residential Schools

25. Video Review

26. Western Canada Unit Test

Strand B Lesson Outline

1. Settling Canada Top 10 Events

2. Primary Source Analysis

3. Historica Minute Videos

4. Canada A People’s History Video

5. Interactive Timeline

6. Changing Map of Canada

7. Important Canadians QR Codes

8. Important Canadians Readings

9. Changing Society Inquiry Stations

10. Primary Source Analysis Assessment

11. Legal Issues and Changes

12. Class Newspaper

13. Changing Society Unit Test