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An Early Canadian Photo Album
Program Area: Social Studies (History) Criteria: Inquiry/research skills and processes Attainment Descriptors:
Uses the Images Canada website to select images appropriate to the group's agreed-upon photo album focus.
Uses other resources (school and public libraries, resource centres, museums, historic sites and community and government) effectively to gather and apply information appropriate to the group's agreed-upon photo album focus.
Records and organizes information effectively using the "Photo Analysis and Personalization" process.
Program Area: Social Studies (History) Criteria: Knowledge and understanding Attainment Descriptors:
Reasoned generalizations about and descriptions of life and conditions in Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries are expressed in the personalized historical fiction text accompanying each photo.
Uses the student-teacher evaluation meeting in order to express and explain new insights about life and conditions in Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Program Area: Language, Writing Criterion: Produce pieces of writing using a variety of forms Attainment Descriptor:
Uses the five steps of the "Photo Analysis and Personalization" process as a vehicle for writing to create personalized historical fiction.
Program Area: Language, Oral and Visual Communication Criterion: Communicate ideas and information for a variety of purposes Attainment Descriptors:
Contributes and works constructively during all five phases of creating the "Early Canadian Photo Album."
Self-assesses writing by seeking, obtaining and discussing the feedback from the readers' "credibility rating."