Canada’s Significant 1920s🇨🇦

What did we do?

Over the last few weeks we worked on our project about the Interwar years. The main question was “What makes an event significant?”.

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Understand the Interwar Year situation

For the beginning we looked on main events of the 1920’s to understand what all of this is about. We were giving these topics in groups of four to research and present them to the class that their can understand. This was my first presentation on English so I struggled a little bit with my pronunciation and English skills but it was still acceptable.

Another big point of learning about the Great Depression during the Interwar years was creating a creative graphic for us to understand which event goes with another event and how to connect them. I created a mind map, which is really messy by the way, but I it helped me to understand the whole situation way better.

 

Writing the essay

We got lots of more topics to choose from and finally we could choose our personal main topic where our essay is going to be about. I chose the St. Louis Vessel, because I thought that I can connect to that topic because it was a ship travelling from Germany to Canada with lots of Jewish refugees on board.

After some research about that topic from different sources we had to do our “Annotated Bibliography”. We learned how to cite a source and started to do that with all our different websites and videos and every source we used to understand and learn something about our topic. It needed a few attempts to get to know how to cite a source but finally it was not a big task. Additionally we wrote short paragraphs what the source is about and why we used it, to give the whole Bibliography a structure, which made it easier to get the right informations we needed.

As we finished with all that stuff we continued to our Outline for the final essay. This was a lot of work because we wanted to have a perfect structure from the Introduction of the essay till the final Conclusion. We learned what goes where in the introduction main part and the conclusion. I needed a few attempts to get the perfect thesis, hook and main sentences for every single paragraph. Even the content which goes in the three paragraphs had to be on our outline. I focused the main point of my essay about what made this event significant and what role Canada had for this event.

The St. Louis Vessel

 

Presenting our topics

As we handed in our final essay after a few drafts we prepared to present our topic in only ten minutes to the class. I chose a short activity were I gave the other kids in my class the countries the ship travelled to make them a part of this event. I explained them at every stop what happened and I think they learned everything I wanted to show them.
If you are interested in my notes for the final presentation just click here.

 

My opinion about the Project

I really liked that project all in all. I had no exspections how I want the project to bebecause it was my first time working in class with IPads. I like the idea that you have the freedom to learn “alone”. You have to read a lot by yourself and have to figure out how to do something but if you need help, which was very often you got somebody to ask. The project was really good structured so it was easy to follow the steps and to learn everything with enough time. I learned a lot of new things, be it about Canadian history or how to write a perfect essay. Everybody worked really hard on their topics, so it was easy to follow all the other presentations and learn about other really important topics.

 

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