“How can an understanding of nationalism of the past, help us make sense of today?” That was the question that drove this whole project. The end product was an Instagram post that was all about how different nations show nationalism. We each chose one of the topics in basecamp related to nationalism for our post. I chose to do french nationalism in Canada, because I was introduced to it when we learned about the colonization of Canada, but I was was interested in learning more.
To start off this project we had to learn a lot about our own topic which started with understanding the idea of historical perspective. While we were doing our research, we were discussing about how certain statues are being torn down and if they should be left up, put in the museum, or maybe just take it down in a different way. We learned about how our perspective today is different than the perspectives at that time and how what those leaders did back then was thought of as OK, but today we would consider it wrong. I showed this curricular competency of understanding historical perspective in the confederation simulation assignment, where we were put in teams. My team and I had to figure out if our group wanted to join the constitution. I was in the Nova Scotia group where I studied about their perspective at the time, what they needed with the confederation, what they didn’t need, and what they believed in.
We also did a current events project where we had to communicate a current event that was happening in the world today that showed nationalism. I chose to do the emergency act extending in Canada because that hasn’t happened in a really long time. I was very interested to read up more about it because I had never heard of it before. I discussed my research in a small group which went very well. Another way I showed the communicate compellingly curricular competency, was in a caption to go with my French nationalism images. I collaborated with my teammates ( Brooke, Zach, and Declan) to make a better one altogether. This is the one we created.
This caption was put together through all the research and evidence we had found out about our topic earlier in the project. I also showed this competency with my opinion writing piece where I communicated my thoughts on French-Canadian nationalism back in the 1700s to early 1900s with evidence from multiple different sources. In my opinion piece I wrote about how French nationalism has always been showed in Canada. It was showed in New France, in the lower Canada rebellion, and Canada wouldn’t be the same without it.
Aside from writing and discussing, a way that I communicated my view and what happened was through the three images that I had to create. I created three images that show the story of French nationalism in Canada starting with the time of new France. Discovering and designing which images that would be most powerful was more challenging than I had thought. Then, with my group we chose four images to put in the Instagram post.
My images
My team and my Images.
Now with both the images and captions done, the teacher put together our
To conclude, I think I’ve showed a lot of learning growth throughout this project. I’m more comfortable with sharing my opinion like I did in the current events assignment and confederation simulation project. I am also getting better at communicating my opinion with the images and opinion piece. My collaborative skills improved with this project which was shown with how I worked with my group when deciding what caption should be our final caption, and in the end we chose a bit from everybody’s. Overall, throughout this project I’ve really enjoyed learning more about French nationalism in Canada over the past few centuries. I find it very interesting the different ways that they show their culture and language throughout the many challenges that were placed ahead of them and how they still show their nationalism today.