School Programs
CHINESE CANADIAN WOMEN, 1923-1967 Grade 7-12
Chinese Canadian Women, 1923-1967 features resources to help teachers use this website in the classroom. Resources include a teacher's guide, four lesson plans and two historical exercises. These materials help students develop their historical literacy by giving them opportunities to work with primary source materials in order to understand the experiences of Chinese Canadian women during a period of discriminatory immigration policies.
Lesson:
Insider and Outsider Perspectives: Cantonese Opera in Canada,
1920-1960
· Grade Level: 7-9 and Secondary I-III (Quebec)
· Course Links: History, Art, Language Arts
Lesson: Stories of Citizenship: Using Oral History to Understand the
Past
· Grade Level: 11-12 and Secondary V (Quebec)
· Course Links: History, Language Arts, Law, Social Studies
Lesson: "Every person of Chinese origin or descent...":
Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws in Canada, 1885-1967
· Grade Level: 9-12 and Secondary III-V (Quebec)
· Course Links: History, Social Studies, Law
Lesson: Community Involvement, Then and Now
· Grade Level: 9-10 and Secondary III-IV (Quebec)
· Course Links: History, Social Studies, Women's Studies, Language
Arts
Historical Exercise: Working with Oral History
· Grade Level: 7-12 and Secondary I-V (Quebec)
· Course Links: History, Social Studies
Historical Exercise: Working with Photographs
· Grade Level: 7-12 and Secondary I-V (Quebec)
· Course Links: History, Social Studies
FAMILY STORIES, TREASURED MEMORIES Grade 5-8
Introduces students to settlement experiences in Toronto through primary sources and original research. Students will work with historical photographs and oral histories, prepare for and conduct interviews with family members, and display their findings in creative ways. There are three ways to complete this
programme:
· MHSO-facilitated at school (fees apply)
· Teacher-facilitated at school, using school kit (loan fee applies)
· Teacher-facilitated at school, using Family Stories website (free of charge)
Curriculum links: Language Arts (Grades 5-8), Social Studies (Grades 5-6), Geography (Grade 8), History (Grades 7-8).
Cost: Fees vary according to programming option selected.
· MHSO-facilitated at school: $5.00 per student, per class visit
· Teacher-facilitated at school, using school kit: $10.00 loan fee per week, plus postage.
· The Family Stories, Treasured Memories five-panel travelling
exhibit is also available to be borrowed by schools. It is available free
of charge to schools that select the MHSO-faciliated programming option.
