CHV2OH

 Informed Citizenship

Purposeful Citizenship

Active Citizenship

Welcome to Civics! This class will be your chance to explore what it means to be a citizen of Mississauga, of Canada and of the world. By learning to be informed, purposeful and active citizens, students can figure out how to change the world around them. This course is your chance to be the change you want to see in the world.

Exam projects are ongoing, so get started on them! Make note of the due dates:

The Political Bulletin: as assigned

The Civics Display Board: May 15th

The "Get Out There!" project: June 4th-- Don't forget to submit your proposals to Ms. McLeod!

We also have 2 quizzes coming up:

Chapters 1 and 2: Thursday, May 10 

Chapter 3: date to be determined

 

Check out these links to get you thinking about your projects!

• You can join one of the federal parties! Follow this link to learn how. http://www.mapleleafweb.com/participation/guides/join_party/federal/
  
  
• Links to see some examples of political cartoons:
  
  http://www.thestar.com/OpinionPopImageGallery/127057 Toronto Star Archives
  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/cartoon/  Globe and Mail Archive
  http://www.mapleleafweb.com/community/editorial/cartoons/archive/archive.html
  http://www.mackaycartoons.net/ -- this site pairs current articles with cartoons
  http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001442 -- cartooning in history
  
  
• Political Songs!
  
  http://www.motherjones.com/arts/music/1996/03/mwtop_20.html -- MoJo's top 20 political songs
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/pol_song.shtml -- Favourite political songs from celebrities, including .wav files to listen to some of them.
  http://politics.guardian.co.uk/apathy/page/0,,891330,00.html -- Listen to audio clips of famous political songs, including an anthem from South Africa, a Marxist rally song, and James Brown's "I'm Black and I'm Proud!"
  http://www.gcal.ac.uk/politicalsong/songs/index.html -- Glasgow University's Centre for Political Song -- a database of rare/new political songs with links to the artists' webpages (many with soundclips/downloads).
  
  
• Find a political person you admire at one of these links:
  

  www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi Canadian Who’s who

  http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/8/2/index-e.html Memorable Canadians

  http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/index-e.html Canadian Prime Ministers

   International Biographies

  http://www.nobel.se/index.html Nobel prize winners

  http://www.biography.com/search/  The Biography Channel – Contemporary Biographies

  http://www.celebhoo.com/ Celebrity Biographies – actors, athletes, models, authors

  http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/People/ Yahoo – people in society and culture

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ From the BBC Archives – historic figures

  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/ American Historical figures

  http://www.britannia.com/bios/azlist.html British Historical figures

  Government Websites

• Municipal Governments and Related Links

  Brampton http://www.city.brampton.on.ca/

  Mississauga http://www.city.mississauga.on.ca/

  Caledon http://www.town.caledon.on.ca/

  Peel (Region of) http://www.region.peel.on.ca/council/index.htm

  Provincial Government       http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/index.html

  Federal Government           http://canada.gc.ca/main_e.html