CHC2D Unit 3: Depression, Ideology and War, 1929–1945

How did hard times and extreme ideas test Canadians? Students study the 1929 crash and the Dirty Thirties, new political parties, policies affecting Indigenous peoples, the rise of fascism, Nazism and Soviet communism, the Holodomor, antisemitism in Canada and the MS St. Louis, the causes of World War II, Canada's war effort at home and overseas, the internment of Japanese Canadians, Indigenous peoples and the war, the Holocaust and its impact on human rights in Canada. Includes Ontario's new mandatory learning on the Holocaust, the Holodomor and extreme ideologies.

Assessment of learning: Voices of the Era, a source-based historical perspective project, with a four-level rubric and a teacher guide.

Lessons

1. The Crash
2. The Dirty Thirties
3. New Parties, New Ideas
4. Indigenous Peoples in the 1930s
5. Extreme Ideologies and the Holodomor
6. Antisemitism in Canada
7. The Road to War
8. Canada at War
9. The Home Front, 1939–1945
10. Internment of Japanese Canadians
11. Indigenous Peoples and World War II
12. The Holocaust
13. After the Holocaust: Human Rights
14. Allies, Science and Identity

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets, with original practice sources and data sets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative task with a rubric and teacher guide

Built for the Ontario curriculum (Canadian and World Studies, Grades 9 and 10, 2018), Canadian History since World War I (CHC2D), including the new learning on the Holocaust, the Holodomor and Black Canadian history, and easy to adapt for CHC2P.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.