Model Confederation

Name: _________________

Areas of Assessment:
7.1.1 Appreciate the influence of diverse Aboriginal, French and British peoples on events leading to Confederation
7.1.2 Appreciate the challenges of co-existence among peoples
7.1.6 Assess, critically, how political, economic and military events contributed to the foundations of Canada
- To what extent was Confederation an attempt to provide the populations of Québec and Ontario with increased control
over their own affairs?
- To what extent was Confederation an attempt to strengthen the Maritime colonies?
7.S.2 Develop skills of historical thinking:
- distinguish cause, effect, sequence and correlation in historical events, including the long and short-term causal relations
of events
- ​create a simulation or a model of a historical event
7.S.4 Demonstrate skills of decision making and problem solving
- brainstorm, plan and share ideas with group members
7.S.5 Demonstrate skills of cooperation, conflict resolution and consensus building:
- assume various roles within groups, including roles of leadership where appropriate
- identify and use a variety of strategies to resolve conflicts peacefully and equitably
7.S.7 Apply the research process
7.S.8 Demonstrate skills of oral, written and visual literacy

It is the year 1864. You and your fellow delegates from one of British North America’s colonies
are meeting to discuss the possibility of uniting together as a country. The colonies that sent you
see some potential advantages to confederation, but they are also afraid of some of the
negative consequences.

Your job for this assignment is to research one colony which was at the Confederation
conference and find out:

1. Things your colony wants from Canada if it were to join Confederation

a. How would your colony benefit from Confederation?
b. What does it need?

2. Reasons why your colony might not want to join Confederation

a. How would Confederation hurt your colony?
b. Why might it be better off by itself?

3. Who is the Representative of your Colony at the Charlottetown Conference

a. What was their political and personal history?
b. What were their personal views on Confederation?

Beyond doing this research you will also be creating the 3 following products to represent your
knowledge and understanding of the challenges that faced each colony in regards to
Confederation.
The Presentation

Your group will give a speech to the rest of the class (You must create a slideshow which
includes the information you are relating to the class, and images that help illustrate your point).
In this presentation you will make sure to represent the following pieces of information to the
rest of the class.

1. Things your colony wants from Canada if it were to join Confederation

a. How would your colony benefit from Confederation?
b. What does it need?
2. Reasons why your colony might not want to join Confederation
a. How would Confederation hurt your colony?
b. Why might it be better off by itself?
3. Who is the Representative of your Colony at the Charlottetown Conference
a. What was their political and personal history?
b. What were their personal views on Confederation?

Your presentation should be between 5 to 7 minutes in length, and you ​MUST SPEAK TO THE
CLASS​, do not just read off of the Slides that you present.

The Poster

Your group will also create a poster that would be displayed in your colony that will be used to
convince your citizens to ​JOIN​ or ​NOT TO JOIN​ confederation. Make sure to include the
following pieces of information

1. A ​SLOGAN​ that will convince your your citizens to ​JOIN​ or ​NOT TO JOIN​ confederation.
2. At least two reasons that affected their decision to join confederation
3. An ​IMAGE​ that helps represent the positives or negatives that your colony would experience from
Joining confederation.

The Notes Package and References

Your group will create a notes package that will be distributed to all of your classmates. This
notes package must include all of the information that you had in your presentation to the class,
and ​MUST BE CHECKED​ TO ENSURE ACCURACY.

In a large research project it is imperative that you make sure to document where your
information is coming from. To this end, you will create a ​Bibliography​ in ​APA​ format, which
includes citations for all pieces of information that you find.
How You Will Be Marked

We all know that group projects can be challenging to work within, and it can seem
difficult to achieve a true representation of your individual grade. Individual grades are
reflected by the achievement of the group, therefore collaboration and cooperation are
an integral part of your individual grade. At the same time, group work develops your
ability to cooperate with your peers, troubleshoot work, provide and accept critique, and
work in a way which supports others. Group work prepares students for the challenge of
future collaborative group projects.

Each group will choose which of the 3 products a student is responsible for.​ Your
chosen product will be worth DOUBLE in your INDIVIDUAL GRADE​, ​but each
student will receive a grade for each section. THIS MEANS THAT YOU SHOULD
BE HELPING EACH OTHER AS NEEDED. SAYING THAT YOU DID ​YOUR PART
WILL NOT EXEMPT YOU FROM THE GRADES OF ANOTHER SECTION

In addition, you will fill out a peer assessment for each member of your group.

Example;

Billy has been assigned the the poster part of the assignment. His
individual marking scheme will look like the following.

Billy’s Marks

Presentation /15

Poster /30

Notes and References /15

Individual Speaking/Presenting Skills /10

Peer Assessments /20

Total Mark /90

Presentation and Due Dates

You will have all of this week, and next monday to work on this assignment. That is
nearly 4 hours of class time. Presentation will happen on ​Tuesday June 4th.
 Rubric for Model Confederation

Exceptional (5) Proficient (4) Acceptable (3) Approaching (2) Poor (1)

Presentation

Reasons for Student is able to Student is ​often ​able Student is able to Student is ​barely Student is ​not ​able
and Against thoroughly ​identify to identify the somewhat ​identify able to​ i​ dentify the to​ i​ dentify the
the reasons behind a reasons behind a the reasons behind reasons behind a reasons behind a
Confederation province’s decision to province’s decision to a province’s decision province’s decision province’s decision
join Confederation. join Confederation. to join to join to join
Confederation. Confederation. Confederation.

Representation Personal history Personal history Personal history Personal history Personal history
of Colony’s and individual and individual and individual and individual and individual
stance on stance on stance on stance on stance on
Representative confederation is confederation is confederation is confederation is confederation is
Very Clear​ and Clear​ and ​Easily Sometimes clear Confusing / Very Confusing /
Easily​ understood understood and ​challenging Limited​ and Very Limited
to ​understand Difficult to and ​Very difficult
understood to ​Understand​.

Construction of Visual aspect of Visual aspect of Visual aspect of Visual aspect of Visual aspect of
Visual Aspect presentation, is presentation, is presentation, is presentation, is presentation, is
Very Clear​ and Clear​ and ​Helpful Sometimes Clear Confusing​ and Confused, and
of Presentation Very Helpful​ to the to the audience in and ​somewhat Limiting​ to the cluttered​ and ​a
audience in guiding guiding their challenging​ to the audience in guiding hindrance​ to the
their knowledge / knowledge / audience in their knowledge / audience in
understanding understanding guiding their understanding guiding their
knowledge / knowledge /
understanding understanding

Poster

Reasons for Student is able to Student is ​often ​able to Student is able to Student is ​barely ​able Student is ​not ​able to
thoroughly ​identify the identify the reasons somewhat ​identify the to​ ​identify the reasons identify the reasons
OR ​Against reasons behind a behind a province’s reasons behind a behind a province’s behind a province’s
Confederation province’s decision to decision to join province’s decision to decision to join decision to join
join Confederation. Confederation. join Confederation. Confederation. Confederation.

Slogan, and Student use Student use Student use some Student use very little Student use no
Information and Information and Information and Information and Information and
Persuasion Research ​on their Research ​ on their Research ​ on their Research ​on their Research ​ on their
poster to ​clearly​ and poster to ​partially poster to ​somewhat poster and ​barely poster and ​do not
convincingly ​persuade persuade audiences to persuade audiences to persuade audiences to persuade audiences
audiences to see a see a specific viewpoint see a specific see a specific viewpoint to see a specific
specific viewpoint on on Confederation. viewpoint on on Confederation. viewpoint on
Confederation. Confederation. Confederation.

Construction of Student’s poster is ​well Student’s poster is Student’s poster is Student’s poster is Student’s poster is
organized​ and the ideas organized​ and the ideas completed​ and the marginally completed incomplete​ and the
Poster, and are ​clearly ​represented are ​often ​represented ideas are ​somewhat and the ideas are ideas are ​not
Images and ​easy​ to identify. and ​easy​ to identify. represented and ​can poorly ​represented and represented and
be​ identified. struggle to be cannot be​ identified.
identified.
 References and Notes Package

Comprehensive Notes are Notes are Notes are Notes are Notes are​ rarely
Nature of Notes incredibly accurate,​ and help Somewhat Sometimes accurate,​ and
accurate,​ and help guide students to accurate,​ and Accurate,​ and help help guide
guide students to correct​ pieces of help guide guide students to students to ​very
correct, and knowledge students to ​mostly fragmented, or limited and
concise​ pieces of correct​ pieces of piecemeal ​ pieces fragmented
knowledge knowledge of knowledge pieces of
knowledge

Organization Notes are ​Very Notes are ​Clear Notes are Notes are Notes are ​very
and Structure Clear​ and ​Very and ​Helpful ​in Somewhat Clear Confusing ​ and confusing​ and
Helpful ​in organization, and ​Somewhat Limited ​in hindering ​in
of Notes organization, helping to the Challenging ​in organization, organization,
helping to the audience in guiding organization, helping to the helping to the
audience in guiding their knowledge / helping to the audience in guiding audience in
their knowledge / understanding audience in their knowledge / guiding their
understanding guiding their understanding knowledge /
knowledge / understanding
understanding

References References are References are References are References are References are
Frequent​, ​Related used often​, Somewhat infrequent​, rare​, ​barely
Strongly​, and Related Strongly​, infrequent​, loosely related​, related​, and
Citations ​are all and Citations ​are Somewhat and Citations ​are Citations ​are
correct. mostly correct related​, and sometimes infrequently
Citations ​are often correct.. correct..
correct.

Individual Speaking/Presenting Skills

Eye Contact Holds attention of Consistent use of Often uses direct Displayed minimal No eye contact
and entire audience with direct eye contact eye contact with eye contact with with audience, as
the use of direct with audience, but audience, audience, while entire report is
Engagement eye contact, seldom still returns to sometimes refers reading mostly read from notes.
looking at notes notes. to notes from the notes.

Speaking Student uses a Student’s voice is Student’s voice is Student’s voice is Student mumbles,
Voice and clear voice and clear. Student sometimes clear, low. Student incorrectly
correct, precise pronounces most and may have incorrectly pronounces
Elocution pronunciation of words correctly. some difficulty with pronounces terms. terms, and speaks
terms so that all Most audience pronunciation. Audience members too quietly for a
audience members members can hear Some Audience have difficulty majority of
can hear presentation members may hearing students to hear
presentation. have difficulty presentation.
hearing the
presentation,