Social Studies Grade 7 Unit 5: Societal Empowerment
Hello there. This website is meant to help teach the Grade 7 Social Studies for Unit 5. Here is the best way you can make use of this site to complete outcomes for this unit:
Essential questions for this unit:
1. What was it like to live in urban and rural Canada in the early 20th century?
2. What caused the working class to rise up in the early 20th century?
3. How did women become more empowered in the early 20th century?
Outcomes:
If a student is unsure of a word or concept, be sure that they research the definition. Some key-terms that might be useful are the following:
Entrepôt
Urban
Rural
Confederation
industrialization
capitalism
General Strike
Labour
Labour Union
Suffrage
Enfranchisement
Suffragist
Social reform
- There are 9 pages on this website that provide information and are titled Lesson 1-9. I suggest that students do some of their own research and use the information provided on the page as a foundation for information.
- There is also a page full of worksheets that can be used for each lesson. These are mostly intended as a way to organize notes. Although each lesson has a worksheet, I suggest doing more activities than the worksheets provided.
- On each Lesson page, there is a section at that provides lesson suggestions and main concepts for the lesson. This section is found directly below the title of the lesson. Guardians can use all the suggestions or choose a few suggestions that they feel will support the main concepts.
Essential questions for this unit:
1. What was it like to live in urban and rural Canada in the early 20th century?
2. What caused the working class to rise up in the early 20th century?
3. How did women become more empowered in the early 20th century?
Outcomes:
- 7.5.1 Evaluate the conditions of everyday life for the peoples of Canada at the turn of the 20th century
- 7.5.2 Describe the impact of the Industrial Revolution on industry and workers in Newfoundland, the Maritimes, and across Canada
- 7.5.3 Explain how women became more empowered through their role in the social reform movements of the late 19th and early 20th Century
If a student is unsure of a word or concept, be sure that they research the definition. Some key-terms that might be useful are the following:
Entrepôt
Urban
Rural
Confederation
industrialization
capitalism
General Strike
Labour
Labour Union
Suffrage
Enfranchisement
Suffragist
Social reform