individual/pair-work to students working with To Everything There Is a Season from a social/political point of view. You now have app. 45 minutes to solve the assignments below: -
Find all the places mentioned on page 213 on a map of Canada. How far are these places approximately from Cape Breton in Nova Scotia? What effect do you think these distances have on Cape Breton’s (and Nova Scotia’s and the other Atlantic Provinces’) relationship to the rest of Canada?
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Read about the Maritimes at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritimes . Focus on the intro, society and culture, and economics (present status, growth and decline). Try to find answers to the following questions: o Why do you think the father in the story coughs all the time and has difficulty breathing and where do you think he has worked? (society and culture) o What has the regional economy been tied to for a long time? (economy- present state) o What happened to the industry of Nova Scotia after Confederation? (economy – present state) o What is the economy like in the Maritimes compared to the rest of Canada (economy – present state) o What is believed to be the reasons for the economic decline in the Maritimes (economy – decline)
Prepare to explain your findings to a class-mate in a well-structured and clear manner. If you finish before time, go into the Fronter-room of the class and into “arkiv”. From here, go into the Canada file, and open and print out “Vocabulary exercise to To Everything There Is a Season”. Match the words with the right explanation. When you have done this, try to make a sentence with each word used correctly (make 16 sentences, NOT one very long sentence with all 16 words!).