Assignment #8

In assignment #8 there will be an interview with Louis Riel. The interviewer will be Michelle.

Announcer: Hello today on our show we are going to interview Louis Riel the ghost and here he comes.

Michelle: Welcome Louis Riel to our show today we are thankful that you are here.

Louis Riel: Thank-you Thank-you!

Michelle: So Louis how did your death happen?

Louis Riel: Well i died at the end of a rope. I was executed by the Government of Canada after being found guilty of treason.

Michelle: How were you a hero?

Louis Riel: I was a hero because I fought for my beliefs and what I thought was right. I was also a leader of the Metis and Red River territory. I had also formed a Metis government.

Michelle: Oh okay then. When was the date of your execution?

Louis Riel: The date i was executed was November 16, 1885

Michelle: What did you start?When?

Louis Riel: I never really started anywhere. I only became a leader because of my father's leadership and I was also considered as powerful as same as my own father.

Michelle: Well that is all the time we have for today. Give a round of applause once again for the ghost Louis Riel!

CROWD: (cheering) (clapping) whoaaa!!

For more information go to these sites:

http://library2.usask.ca/northwest/background/riel.htm
http://www.shsb.mb.ca/Riel/indexenglish.htm
http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Canada/riel.htm

Assignment #7

In assignment # 7 we had to read about some of the Canadians that have made a difference in our world or accomplished something fascinating. We had to answer some questions about what we learned and what we liked about learning about these people.



4a.) Which category of Canadian Personalities interested you the most? Did you like the "we inspired", "we founded", "we fought", "we built" or "we governed" section the best? Why?

a.) There was other great choices but I choose "we inspired" because there was a lot of interesting information. They did great things that helped us today.



b.) Which personality interested you the most? Why? Find an image of him or her to embed it.


b.)The person that I found most interesting was Peter Pitseolak. I choose him because he is a very creative Inuit photographer. He also turned his creative energy to painting, sculpting and the collecting of oral history. He also had a legacy that was a body of work illustrating, from an Inuit perspective, northern life at the intersection of past and present.


c.) In your post, suggest three more influential Canadian personalities that could be added to this site. Why did you choose these people? Which categories would they fit into?

c.)The three people I thought of were terry fox and Jackrabbit Johannsen and also Celine Dion
I think all of these influential people fit in the category "we inspire". Terry Fox was a very determined person who wanted to find a cure for cancer and ran across the world with an amputated leg but he would not give up no matter what. Jackrabbit Johannsen stands for freedom, the love of nature and physical health. Johannsen was literally raised on skis. After
suffering bankruptcy during the Depression, he translated his hobby into a business
and way of life. Celine Dion is a great singer but she also helped the needy kids like the disordered and children with disabilities.

For more information on these three great inspirational people go to these websites:
http://www.answers.com/topic/celine-dion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/biography/biographi243e.shtml

5. I voted on Samuel De Champlain because he was a great explorer who found new France which is known as Canada today.

6. I got matched up with Pierre Elliot Trudeau
7.) i was most like Pierre Elliot Trudeau and Emily Carr. Things that i had in common with these people are that Pierre and i both like human rights,we also both respect people and people with their freedoms. Things that i have in common with Emily Carr are born in the fall and she has a school named after her.

8.they will remember me for being a great vet. I will help all animals. Do great things to help make animals well, feel welcomed and useful for the environment.

Assignment #6

My assignment will be about Nathaniel Dett. He was an African American composer,pianist and choral director. His real name is rober, he was born in Drummondville(part of Niagara Falls) . His birth date was October 11, 1882.


When Nathaniel Dett was five years old he was offered no charge piano lessons by his older bothers piano teacher because she heard him play piano pieces, so she offered him. When he was fourteen he had a part time job bellhop in a hotel called cataract and in church he would play the piano. In 1901 to 1903 he stutied at the oliver willis halstead conservaroy of music in nearby lockport, then enrolled at oberlin conservatory of music in 1903. In 1914 he offered two concerts the first concert was in samuel coleridge-taylor clun in chicago and added his magnolia. In june the next following week at orchestra hall. He became a piano teacher and a choir director at the year 1908-11 at lane college, jackson, tenn, and taught 1913-32 at the Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va, 1935-7 at Samuel Houston College, Austin, Tex, and 1937-42 at Bennett College, Greensboro, NC. As director of the Hampton Choir he toured Europe in 1930. He was chairman of the advisory board 1919-24 and president 1924-6 of the National Association of Negro Musicians. Prior to his death he directed musical activities for the United Service Organization, designed to build US armed forces' morale. He edited collections of spirituals and folksongs and composed motets, anthems, songs, and 6 piano suites characterized by the melodies and rhythms of black folk music. Dett was a great composer,pianist and choral director. The websites i got this information from is http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/dett.html and http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000956.

Assignment #5

When Canadian settlers came to Canada they called it New France. How the first settlers survived the cold was they would hunt amimal for food so they wouldn't stare to death. They also know how to grow crops in the summer.They would also build a fire so it would warm them up.They use skin from animals for good use, for example tents, clothes, blankets, pillows. They use bones for tools and how the cook is with animal oil. They use all the parts of the animals because they don't want it to go to waste.

I'm not sure how my family survive the cold but i guess they just got use to the fact that is it is cold in canada. I'm pretty sure most people can survive the cold if you dress warm and be prepared for winter.

Assignment #4

I think Mariam's blog was very good because it had a lot of details. It made a lot of sense to me. Here is her blogs adress it you want to check it out: http://historymariamk.blogspot.com/.

There was also Genny's blog that I liked a lot it had a lot of great ideas what the world will be like sooner in the future and how people will be treated and i liked that a lot! And you can also click here to see more about her blog.

Assignment #3

Christopher Moore's blog is amazing. He talks about a lot of interesting facts and information about the past years. I wasn't here for the past years because i was not born yet but there is one thing i do know, that is every year things change like our pollution it increases every year.

In 2109, i think there is still going to have a lot of changes in life. The world probably not be at peace yet because there is a lot of wars going on today. Many things are wrong with the world but sometimes it is good because it brings us here today, but sometimes bad for the environment. In the near future there will be different things made and discovered. From time to time we should think back about the past years about who found Canada and the first nations because they are the reason why we are here living today, but sometimes if you think too much you will also get confused so please don't think too hard. In a hundred years from now there might be things that will happen, that you can't possibly imagine. Keep in mind our world is not perfect every year or any year. The year 2109 is many many years from now so you will never know what is going to happen till then.

Welcome!

Hi! Welcome to my Canadian history blog.
My name is Michelle. I'm in grade 7. I live in Ottawa, Canada. I'm going to talk about Canadian history here on my blog, i hope u enjoy my blog and feel free to respond.I am very excited to blog about Canadian history because we don't have to read boring text books and we also don't have to carry the heavy text books everywhere.
please check out my teacher's blog http://historypollock.blogspot.com