Reading Goals Due June 21st

The final reading goals for the year will be due on June 21.  Work hard to complete your reading goal.

Apartheid in South Africa - Social Studies Quiz - Tuesday June 21

Social Studies Chapter 6 Uses and Abuses of Power

In 1876, the Canadian government passed the Indian Act.  It was a law that aimed to assimilate First Nations in the dominant culture.

Under the terms of the Indian Act, First Nations people were not considered to be Canadian citizens. 

The Indian Act sought to end First Nations languages and cultures. 

First Nations children had to attend residential school for most of the year.             

Treaty – a formal agreement between two or more nations in reference to peace, alliance, commerce, territory or other relations.

 

 

South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1910.

White minority kept political and economic power for themselves. 

In 1948, the white minority in South Africa adopted apartheid as government policy to separate themselves from black people and other races. 

Apartheid laws were brutally upheld by armed security forces.

Laws forced black people to move to small, isolated areas called the Bantu homelands.

The South African government had reserved about 7 percent of the country for black people.  But black people made up about 80 percent of the population so the homelands were very crowded.  Living conditions were terrible with almost no jobs.

The government required black people over 16 years of age to carry identification passes.  Black people had to show their passbooks any time a white person, including a child, asked them for identification.  A black person who could not produce a passbook would be arrested.

Many people inside and beyond South Africa believed that apartheid was wrong. 
Black South Africans organized and protested.  Whit police often responded with violence,   sometimes shooting into crowds, killing hundreds of demonstrators at a time. 

The government banned groups such as the African National Congress (ANC).  This political party had worked for black civil rights since 1912.

One man who played a key role in ending apartheid was Nelson Mandela.  He was the ANC leader who was jailed in 1962.  He continued to protest for almost 30 years from his prison.  Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990 by President F. W. de Klerk. 

Psalm 91 - Test on Monday - Fill in the Blanks

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 

2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” 

3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. 

4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. 

5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 

6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. 

7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. 

8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. 

9 If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, 

10 no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. 

11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 

12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. 

13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. 

14 “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. 

15 He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. 

16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

Chapel This Week

This Thursday for chapel, we will be having a potluck snack.  Each child is asked to contribute to the potluck:  

Grade 8-Dessert

Grade 7-Fruit

Grade 6-Salty Snacks

Grade 5-Drinks

Thank you for participating and making our chapel a wonderful time of sharing.

The Middle Years Team

Note: Please bring your lunch (or participate in the Subway Lunch).  This is not a replacement meal.

CE Character Sketch - Due end of Class on Monday June 20th

No late submissions.

The Greatest Game Ever Played Video - Friday June 17 pm

On Friday,  to coincide with our golf unit in PE,  we will be watching the movie "The Greatest Game Ever Played".  This is a story about an amateur golfer playing a champion professional golfer and is based on a true story.  Students may bring snacks and drinks for the viewing.

Here is a link to watch the trailer. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au9nFe4mjIA

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact  me.

Spelling Test Friday

1. composition
2. secondary
3. watercolour
4. acrylic
5. texture
6. pastel
7. stenciling
8. complementary
9. tempera
10. lithography
11. primary
12. encaustic
13. perspective
14. highlight
15. fresco
16. caricature
17. palette
18. landscape
19. mural
20. collage