Assessment Focus Task Component Instruction Notes for Teachers Look Fors Follow the stages of the Following are some examples: Proposal • Group A decides that to Planner in order to: acknowledge the long • A) Identify your Target hours for labourers in Audience the 1870s, events will only begin after noon to • B) Develop your allow citizens to get knowledge by reading more sleep and rest. from the selected websites and make • Group B decides to selections of the most hold significant aspects, a re-enactment parade people, events and to educate citizens developments of labour about the effectiveness of the working men’s to be acknowledged in demonstrations in the parades of April 15, 1872 four categories. in Toronto and • C) Present your September 3, knowledge to your 1872 in Ottawa. audience. Be sure to explain the connections • This would involve a and rationale of your parade of workers and vision. marching bands (as per the Toronto demonstration) yet take place at night by torchlight, carrying the Prime Minister from his house to the steps of City Hall (as per the Ottawa parade)! There, the Prime Minister will make a statement that legislation will be introduced to support workers, as Sir John A. Macdonald did on the night that is being commemorated. Group C has focused their reading and research on the dangerous working conditions in the past and the work that unions have done to ensure the Labour standards of Health and Safety regulations today.
Task Component Instruction Assessment Focus Look Fors Notes for Teachers Follow the stages of the Proposal Planner in order to: • A) Identify your Target Audience • B) Develop your knowledge by reading from the selected websites and make selections of the most significant aspects, people, events and developments of labour to be acknowledged in four categories. • C) Present your knowledge to your audience. Be sure to explain the connections and rationale of your vision. Following are some examples: • Group A decides that to acknowledge the long hours for labourers in the 1870s, events will only begin after noon to allow citizens to get more sleep and rest. • Group B decides to hold a re-enactment parade to educate citizens about the effectiveness of the working men’s demonstrations in the parades of April 15, 1872 in Toronto and September 3, 1872 in Ottawa. • This would involve a parade of workers and marching bands (as per the Toronto demonstration) yet take place at night by torchlight, carrying the Prime Minister from his house to the steps of City Hall (as per the Ottawa parade)! There, the Prime Minister will make a statement that legislation will be introduced to support workers, as Sir John A. Macdonald did on the night that is being commemorated. Group C has focused their reading and research on the dangerous working conditions in the past and the work that unions have done to ensure the Labour standards of Health and Safety regulations today.