Assignment 9 (grade 7)-Journal entry

For this assignment I will be writing from the point of view of a 12 year old black Loyalist. These black Loyalists are known as the runaway slaves from America who are loyal to the Crown for protection. I am supposed to write from either a loyalists point of view meeting the British North Americans for the first or vice versa. For more indept information about this assignment click the links to view Mike's Blog and Miss Pollock's Blog.

September 3, 1783

Dear Diary,

My family and I have just arrived and I am finally getting some time for myself to write something about my adventures. For a 12 year old boy this is a dream come true, and I am not even a man yet.

Our adventure up north was pretty capital if you ask me. Although there were some problems, since we are and will always be as the people call us..."slaves." But I really don't want to write about anything that happened throughout the journey because I want to talk about the wondrous now. Now is the adventure and now is what I want to write about.

My adventure starts off with me and my older brother exploring the new land when we just arrived, but these very topping people were giving us stares and making fun of our colour. It is very rude and totally topping of them. Anyways I won't be able to write anymore, my papa is calling me for our journey to a capital city up Northwest named I think Birchtown, where we "the coloured" ones will be settling down.

Benjamin Richards

September 10, 1783

Dear Diary,

One of the earliest maps

I love it up here in Birchtown if I got it right, it is so capital and wondrous. My parents told me that the land that we live on right now is around 40 acres big as is the rest of the people's land, except for the topping so-called leader Colonel Stephen Blucke. He has a whole 200 acres to himself. In this city we only have our type of people. Birchtown is basically the biggest black settlement. One thing I am glad about is that we don't live near the topping white people. They really hurt me. It is as if they don't want us here, but I am not sure because I don't see them much anymore.

I think this city is very beautiful but I always hear mama complaining about how the land we are given has poor soil, and the unfriendly and icy land. And I have heard many other people complain about how we haven't been granted with farm lots yet. But we have got to live with since we have no other choice but slavery. Anyways I don't have anything else to write about other then the fact that we have got to work very hard before the onset of winter. I have a lot of chores ahead of me so, BYE.

Benjamin Richards

Birchtown is Located Northwest of Shelburne. It is one of the biggest Black settlements.

Assignment 8-The Real Riel

Assignment #8 is about Louis Riel and his experiences during his life and supposedly after his death. I will be writing and talking to the imaginary Louis Riel and his life before and after his death. For more information about this assignment click this link. The setting for this interview is November 14th 2120.

AND NOW WE HAVE WITH US LIVE ON INFLUENTIAL HISTORY-MAKERS OF THE PAST LOUIS RIEL.

Host: Ladies and gentlemen, today is a new day with newer discoveries to make. On this wonderful morning we are lucky to have been able to bring Louis Riel here from the past to share some of the experiences he has gone throughout his life. Luckily we reached him two days before his execution. Now before, I call Louis Riel to come here on this stage, I would like to share some general information about him to give you a better understanding of who he is and why he is important to our history, particularly Manitoba's. Louis Riel was born on October 22nd, 1844 and he unfortunately passed away on November 16th, 1885. He is the oldest child of Louis Riel Sr. and Julie Lagimodière, who had eleven children in total. They were one of the well-respected French Canadian-Métis family. Now, give it up for LOUIS RIEL, (waiting for audience to settle down) who would probably give more accurate information about himself. (Louis walks onto stage, greeting the host). Louis Riel, its a pleasure to have you here.

Louis: The pleasure is all mine and I can really see the development Canada has gone through over the past century.

Host: (laughs) Of course, thanks to people such as yourself. Well, Mr. Riel today we have you here to tell us Canadians the actual truth about yourself and exactly what caused people to think what they are thinking about you right now. I heard that your father unfortunately died in 1864, how did that affect your life?

Louis: Wow, that's quiet sudden starting with my father's death. Anyways it affected my life because when I heard about my father's death, I started losing interest in the priesthood which gave me no choice but to withdraw from the college of Montreal. Afterward, I did try to continue my studies in the Grey Nuns but I was later asked to leave due to the fact that I basically had lack of both interest and discipline to the subject. Also because of the death my father, i started to work as a law clerk in the Montreal office of Rodolphe Laflamme . So, overall it affected my life as well as my career.

Host: Well, its tragic and I personally think that if i were in your shoes i would probably lose interest in priesthood too because from my experiences such shocks changes the way you think. After your fathers death, you continued to stay in Montreal and there you found someone really special. I am sure that the audience and I will love to hear more about it.

Louis: I got involved in a relationship with the most amazing woman i had ever met named Julie Guermon. Julie and I decided that we should get married and we signed a marriage contract. So basically we were engaged but however, Julie's family were against her involvement with a metis and so our engagement was broken.

Host: Riel, when your engagement was broken due to their family not wanting Julie to be involved with metis, were you offended to that comment or decision?

Louis: In fact I was offended because they made such a quick judgement, they didn't even try to get to know us metis.

Louis Riel's Kids

Host: After the incident with Julie, did you marry anyone else?

Louis: Well, after having my heart broken by Julie, I never thought I would interested in another women but I however, married another most amazing women name Marguerite. With her I had two children named Jean and Angelique and a third son who passed away at birth.

Host: Look at the bright side you were able to get over Julie and Marguerite must have been a very incredible woman. OK my next question has absolutely nothing to do with what we have been talking about. I heard that you were involved in the red river rebellion, what was your purpose or role there?

Louis: I had several roles in the Red river rebellion. These roles include: maintain peace in the settlement, preventing William McDougall from entering the settlement, being spokesmen of the Metis and there are several others that aren't as important.

Host: I have been wondering. Was your role able to end the rebellion?

Louis: To say the truth, my role had nothing to do with the end of the rebellion. Basically the rebellion ended as soon as I fled from the settlement due to the fact that most people thought that the only reason the expedition was coming was to arrest me because of Thomas Scott's execution.

Host: With all that events happening around, did you get involved in any type of problems such as stress, depression and etc.

Louis: Yes, in fact I got involved in a continues stress which later made me suffer from mental exhaustion. As it got worse I was forced to go to a psychiatric hospital in Montreal and in Beauport (somewhere near Quebec).

Host: That is so terrible and so unexpected. I also heard that many people throughout Canada has different opinions about you. Some say that you were a father of Confederation while others thought you were a traitor and other such things. How do you feel about the way other people think about you? Do you agree or disagree with their opinions?

Thomas Scott

Louis: Well, all individuals have different opinions and you really can't blame them because its all about what they hear or read about. I maybe a traitor to some eyes because I basically shot Thomas Scott by agreeing to his execution. I however think that I shouldn't have been judged so fast because obviously i wouldn't have agreed to someones execution without reasons. To think of it, if i didn't kill Thomas Scott, he would probably gather with others and try to attack Fort Garry and kill many innocent people. So, I disagree with being called a traitor because the way others thought of me killing Thomas Scott was not the way I meant it. People thought that by killing Thomas Scott, i enraged anti-Catholic and anti-French sentiment in Ontario but i was actually trying to make people to take metis more seriously. As for the father of Confederation, I have to agree because I was responsible for the entrance of Manitoba into Confederation. So technically I agree and I also disagree with their opinions.

Host: If you were able to go back in time, what would you change and why? For example would you have not killed Thomas Scott.

Thomas Scott executed
Louis: Well, if i were able to go back in time which i can actually today since i am here from the past, I would probably not kill Thomas Scott. Instead I would put him under custody because part of the reason why the government did accept our will was because I killed Thomas. The second thing I would probably change is not to flee from the settlement and instead listen to their decision because i felt really bad leaving the metis side when they needed me the most as a spokesmen. Other than that i am actually proud of myself for accomplishing more than what I planned too. I mean, I am known as a father Confederation and hero to most people.

Host: Yes, you really are a true hero. Anyway, you execution is in two day, how do you feel about that?

Louis: I feel like I am being punished for no reason, well at least i think that I am being punished for no reason. The reason for that is because I thought that I did something that would help the people of metis and lessen the racism against them. I also think that I brought the concept that everyone needs human rights, no matter what race.

Host: It was a privilege to interview you but unfortunately we are running out of time, so i guess this is a bye.Louis: The pleasure was all mine, never thought i would be able to see how this developed.Host: Watch us tomorrow to make new discoveries, same channel, same time, WATCH ME!

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Here are the websites I used for information:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel
2. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/023001-2390-e.html
3.http://www.shsb.mb.ca/Riel/indexenglish.htm

Canadian Personalities- Assignment 7

I am responding to assignment 7 from my teacher's blog Canadian History with Miss Pollock. In this assignment I will be talking about different influential Canadian personalities who have helped our country develop and be such a successful country as it is today.

***I will be writing down the questions my teacher has asked me to answer just so it would be more clearer to read.***

a.) Which category of Canadian Personalities interested you the most? Did you like the "we inspired", "we founded", "we fought", "we built" or "we governed" section the best? Why?

The category of Canadian Personalities that interested me the most is the "we fought" category. This category talked about Marquis De Montcalm, James Wolfe, Nellie McClung, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Pierre Bourgault, Mary Brant, and Joseph Brant. This category interested me because each one of these people fought with hope that they will someday succeed and help the people that were desperate in need of help. Each one of these men and women weren't afraid of losing their lives in war or in other areas in which they could die in due to breaking the law or fighting for freedom for a country and also human beings--more importantly the fight for female suffrage and human rights. These people also set a good example of perseverance. Of course it is hard to fight in a war, to fight for human rights because we are always afraid of losing but the people that are in this category had hope, passion and determination, without them the girls wouldn't have as much human rights, or this country wouldn't be so developed and successful with the help of "some" wars (even though they were pretty rough). Those are the reasons why I thought the "We Fought" category was interesting. I got my information from a website called Meet the Personalities under the We Fought category.

b.) Which personality interested you the most? Why? Find an image of him or her to embed (add to the body of your post) and write, in your own words, a short description of what he or she did and why he or she is your favourite. If you get information from any source, you must credit it by creating a link to it (that includes information from the site that I've asked you to look at).

The personality that interested me the most was Nellie Letitia (Mooney) McClung. Nellie McClung born a poor pioneer homesteader was born on October 1873. Throughout her life she has had many different roles or jobs that has always lead her to desire for the improvement of the rights of Canadian women. At the age of 16 she was a poor teacher, after that start up job she gradually became a best selling author, suffragist, feminist and a politician. I found Nellie McClung interesting because she was concerned about human rights and made that her goal and soon succeeded into making a woman considered a person. Without her, women wouldn't have gotten their human rights until someone else as intelligent as her came along with the same passion, hope, and goal as hers. This could have taken quite a few years since she won her fight during the first world war and other woman might have not been brave enough then. She was also interesting to me because I really think that what she had accomplish at that time was unbelievable. As the website I used said, "A well-rounded and capable woman, her various careers cannot be described separately, as her teaching, writing and public speaking abilities all fueled her desire to improve the rights of Canadian women. This desire, combined with her true activist nature, Christian faith and sense of duty, meshed perfectly with the social and moral reform movements arising in the West in the early 1900s and produced one of Canada's great social activists." Following her goals Nellie McClung soon became a part of the famous five with Irene Parlby, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy and Louise McKinney. She truly is a very inspiring influential Canadian Personality. I got information from a website called "Meet the Personalities" and another one called "Celebrating Womens Achievement".

c.) In your post, suggest three more influential Canadian personalities that could be added to this site. Why did you choose these people? Which categories would they fit into? Link to information about each of them.

The first influential Canadian personality I would like to suggest is Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian woman in space. She would fit perfectly well in the "We founded" category and in the "We Inspired" category because she was basically one of the first Canadian persons who first founded space and a way into space and she has also inspired people with her many remarkable talents. For more information about Roberta Bondar and her great accomplishments click this LINK.

The second influential personality I would like to suggest is Christopher Columbus, the first European explorer to set foot on North America. Although Christopher Columbus is not Canadian what he has done for Canada is more important even if he has made a few mistakes. Without him the race of exploration wouldn't have started. So many Europeans such as Jacques Cartier, Sameul de Champlain, John Cabot, etc. wouldn't have made their accomplishments without his idea of trying to find the way to the Asian spices from an ocean route. I think he fits well under the "We Built" category because without him most of us wouldn't have found our way to Canada (except for the Vikings of course). He was one of the main people who helped build Canada. To get more information on Christopher Columbus visit this website, click on the links on that website to get more information.

The third influential Canadian personality I would like to suggest is Terry Fox. He would fit perfectly well under the "We Fought" category because despite his misfortunes he risked his life even more to save the lives of other people who were suffering from the same disease as he currently was. If it weren't for his fight to raise money for cancer research, people still wouldn't be helping to raise more money each year. His perseverence and motivation helped him raise over a million dollar for cancer research. For more information on Terry Fox and his life click HERE.

d.) Which History-Maker did you have the most in common with? Were you able to figure it out from the clues given? What do you share with that person? What are some things that are different between you and that person?

***Use Mystery History-Maker Match-Up to find out which history-maker you have alot in common with.***

Clue #1-"I am born on March 3 1890 Gravenhurst Ontario."

Clue #2-"My first language is English but I also know Spanish, Chinese, and French."

Clue #3-"I studied medicine in Toronto at the university founded by my grandfather."

Clue#4-"I was ahead of my time when I organized a group to make quality health care free in 1936. I joined the communist party that same year."

Clue #5-"I have travelled through Canada, United States giving speeches in support of democracy. I visited many countries in times of both war and peace."

Clue#6-"My family and friends call me Beth."

The history-maker I have most in common with is Norman Bethune. When I was given the clues I was sort of able to guess who it was because one of the clues was that his nickname was Beth and his name is Norman Bethune. So using his clue and looking at his names I sort of guessed that it was him because Beth is probably short for Bethune. Other then that I probably wouldn't have been able to guess who he was because I have never heard of him.

Things I have in common with Norman Bethune:

• We both have more then two brothers or sisters.
• I too am interested in medicine
• We both have nicknames
• The both of us are concerned about the health and education of other human beings.

Things I don't have in common with Norman Bethune:

• His first language is English
• He has museums, schools, hospitals named after him
• He has gotten his degree in medicine and I havn't finished grade 7
• awards and scholarships are given in his memory
• His face has appeared on postage stamps
• He has been to war and has saved lives of thousands of people as a doctor

If you want to know more about him visit this website containing a biography that is very useful.

e.) One hundred years from now, (in 2109!) imagine that students are learning about Canadian History Makers and they discover you. What will you be remembered for? How were you a Canadian History Maker? You are using your imagination, so think about some things that you would like to accomplish in your life and imagine that you have all the accomplishments of your life to look back on. Write a short profile of yourself, imagining the contributions you have made to the future of Canada.

I am writing a profile about Shukria. She was born on December 1996 and has accomplished many things that were once impossible. From grade 6 and on, each year passing by her desire to being the first to set foot on Mars, and to be the first to find life on Mars became tremendously strong. She then turned the desire into her goal, which in 2045 came true. Shukria had set off for her voyage to Mars in 2043 on one of the most successful space missions known yet with 5 other people. Her job on the space ship was to sent daily reports about their trip and the exact time at which they landed on Mars. One year later they landed on Mars and Shukria was one of the first people to set foot on Mars. Afterwards, while researching the red planet trying to find life she came across the most unbelievable creature any human has ever set eyes on. Knowing that a creature like the one she had found was able to survive on Mars so could humans. Shukria was then given the mission to investigate Mars to make sure that humans will be able to live there, and to add other gases such as oxygen and such to the air. So now here I am on Mars in the year 120. Shukria is remembered for her courage and devotion to her job. She was able to take care of every responsibility needed to get humans onto Mars. She is also remember for finding a whole new specie on a whole new planet. After coming back from Mars Shukria made yet a another accomplishment that can't be forgotten by anyone because this accomplishment takes you to and back to a time you want to go to. She invented the very first Time Machine receiving a Nobel prize in 2056. Thanks to her accomplishments, the saying "nobody is perfect" has been proven wrong. Nowadays everybody is perfect! Using her invention you can go back in time anytime you want to fix your mistakes. Therefore, without Shukria we wouldn't have been able to travel time now and I wouldn't be living on such a beautiful planet.

Henry (Harry) Winston Jerome

Harry Winston Jerome was and still is one of our many outstanding athletes, confirming his name as the fastest runner in Canada at his time and now too. He was born on September 30Th 1940 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Later on when he was 12 years old he moved to North Vancouver. There he competed in many different high school and college competitions building up his skills in sprinting, and soon representing Canada in the Olympics like his grandfather had once done. Harry had been to 3 summer Olympics representing Canada for the 100 meter dash in 1960, 1964, and 1968. He had also been part of the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth games and the 1967 Pan American Games. While he competed in these competition he had a lot of fame but he also supposedly suffered from a few medical conditions. A few of his accomplishments are--he made 4 world records in the years 1960, 1961, 1962, and 1966. Harry Jerome also won a bronze medal in the 1964 summer Olympics and a gold medal in the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth games. During his many accomplishments Harry Jerome also pulled his muscle in the 1960 summer Olympics, and tore a muscle in his left thigh in the 1962 commonwealth games, making his doctors think that he may never be able to run or walk again. After which another misfortune of brain aneurysm killed him at the age of 42 on December 7, 1982.

After Harry's retirement and death many places were honoured to have a statue of him built in it, or have that place named after him. Here are a few thing that were named after him--a weights room at the university of Oregan, a RecCenter, a sports center, and other places that involve sports. There is also a 9 foot bronze statue of him in the Stanley Park sea wall in Vancouver. And there is an annual Harry Jerome awards.




This is a websites about Harry Jerome talking about his youth and how he had been able to accomplish what he had accomplished and why he was so successful at his time. Here is another website I used that also talks about his life and accomplishments.

Assignment #5-It's really cold. Brrrr!!!

Immigrants are very important to the population of Canada. Every single citizen either has been an immigrant or has ancestors who were immigrants to Canada, but every one is an immigrant because Canada is one of the newest countries in the world. Without immigration Canada wouldn't have been where they are today. We wouldn't have accomplished everything we have accomplished in the last few centuries, which by far is a whole lot. And we wouldn't be who we are today. In this entry I going to be talking about the c-c-cold and some of the reasons why our families or some of the very first immigrants decided to come and stay in Canada despite the freezing cold.

The first time in recorded history, that anyone entered Canada or North America was probably the Aboriginals. They came and lived here for thousands of years BCE. Aboriginals are the first immigrants of Canada because at one point in time they had left their homeland following the buffalo over the land bridge connecting Asia and Canada. It had of course taken them several generations to walk across the land bridge (what is now the pacific ocean) but they never gave up. They walked and walked and soon spread all over North America, forming many self-sufficient, cultural and linguistic groupings. A few examples of their groups are the Huron, Mik-maq, Algonquian and many more. Without the help of the Aboriginals, the Europeans would have never survived the winter long enough to go back to their homeland and bring other immigrants to Canada. The reason why I think the Aboriginals decided to stay in Canada was that at the time they came to Canada, they were already used to the cold, since it was the ice age when they had first started to walk over the land bridge and when they had finally reached Canada. That explains a whole lot. Other reasons why the Aboriginals would stay in Canada is because there is:

• a lot of trees for shelter and protection
• a lot of wildlife for food
• a lot of wildlife fur and skin for clothing and shelter (tents...etc.)
• a lot of farm land to help them make a living off of farming and selling crops
• a lot of bodies of water for fishing and water
• a lot of land for building houses

So as you can see each one of the points that I have listed up there is basically related to survival and stuff that Canada had plentiful of, while other countries lacked them. Therefore, I think that Aboriginals actually made the right decision, after going through all the pros and cons.

The second important immigrants of Canada are the European explorers. Some of the very first European explorers came from France, or Britain. Most of these European settlers never thought they would find new land, all they were interested in finding was a sea/ocean route to the Asian silk and spices. Soon a competition began between the European countries over the exploration of the new land. So from that time on the exploration time began. Each country would send ship loads of men and explorers to explore the new land and claim it for their country. While these people were experiencing fame, they were also experiencing hardships, failures, and success. Here are a list of examples of what some explorers experienced:

• death of companions and really close friends
• had to survive the many different viruses and diseases that had gone around the ship and the new land.
• they had to survive the freezing cold without blankets, heaters, or warm clothing to keep them warm
• they had to survive the disease the cold and lack of food and water brought (scurvy, frostbites...etc.) killing many of the very first people who stayed in Canada for the winter
• they had to find a way to be successful in building colonies
• they had to find a way to help the immigrants they brought over to Canada through the winters and other hardships they had or faced

So as you can see they had gone through a lot of losses from death of friends to fear of their own death. However each one of these problems were dealt with or else we wouldn't be in Canada today. Here are how they coped with a few of their problems and how the Aboriginals came to the rescue with perfect timing:

• seeing the new settlers dying so fast, the aboriginals showed Jacques Cartier this recipe for a tea made out of boiled white cedar tree to cure the settlers disease
• although Jacques Cartier had failed greatly, 60 years later Champlain came of assistance to form very successful colonies
• he himself went back and forth from Canada to France convincing families to immigrate to Canada unlike Jacques who came and took a shipload of criminals to Canada.
• John Cabot had found the great banks where people then started fished for enough cod to last them a year
• as the fishers fished they also started to trade some of their tools for fur which later helped them keep themselves warm when they decided to stay in Canada for the winter
• after those encounters the little trading gradually ended up becoming huge and the primary reason why people came and immigrated to Canada.
• their winters were no longer harsh ever since they got the cure and because of the fur trade they were warm

The European explorers have done many more for our country but those are a few start up points. Although they faced a lot of hardships, they also did a lot for our country. Without fishing on the great banks the fur trade wouldn't have started. Without the fur trade immigrants wouldn't have a reason to come to Canada. And without the immigrants coming to Canada, Canada wouldn't have come so far as today.

Finally the third most important immigrants of Canada who had to cope with the cold is you and I. A few of us may have ancestors who were here since the beginning but most of us don't. Most of Canada is build up of people and citizens of other countries. Some of the hardships that my family had experienced when they first came was the cold. My family came to Canada in the middle of winter and it was really hard for them because my country is always summer and the coldest temperature in the winter there is probably the warmest temperature in winter here. But it obviously wasn't as hard as it was for the early European explorers because they had nothing with them, and they weren't prepared for they cold. For example, we have heaters, warm clothing, and other stuff that keeps us warm; however, the Europeans didn't have anything to keep them warm until the fur trade began.

Therefore, Canada may be cold but once you look at how much the first people had to suffer to make this a successful country it is actually worth freezing sometimes. I mean what if the early settlers hadn't suffered and had just left the country as soon as they found out how cold it was, then our lives would change completely, each one of us wouldn't be what we are today. Especially the people who left their country because of threats or human rights and came to Canada to lead a normal and safe life here. So forget the cold think about where you might be if Canada hadn't been here. How would you lead your life?

Here are the links to the websites I used for my research:

I used a website about Jacque Cartier, Immigration to Canada, and John Cabot. Each one of these websites talked about how the explorers settled in Canada, and how newer immigrants are now coming to Canada despite how cold it had been and how cold it still is.

To learn more about what I am trying to get out to you visit my teacher's blog.

Assignment #4-Linking back to my peers

Hey everybody,

I have been reading many of your assignment #3 blogs and they all look amazing. I especially liked Jessica, Allyson, and Sandra's blogs they were all done very well and thorough.

The first one I read was Jessica's and it had an excellent summary about what Christopher Moore's blog was about, to sort of give us an idea of what we may be reading next. She also added a lot of her imaginative predictions on what she thought 2109 would probably look like. Here is an example of her writing that really gave me something to be happy about in the future. "I am optimistic that the environment will change for the better." Her blog was different than the other ones I read because almost everybody else including me thought that the environment would change for the worst except for her. It really gave me something else to think about. To know why she thought the environment will change for the better instead of worst check out Jessica's Blog.

The second blog I read was Allyson's. She had thought a lot about the future, and listed many realistic and possible predictions of what it might look like. She too added a few things that makes the future look a lot better then most people did. Here is an example from her writing that is something everybody would probably hope for someday. "I hope that when 2109 comes there will be a cure for all diseases and so that no one will have to suffer anymore." I mean who wouldn't want a disease-free environment or country. Check out Allyson's Blog to find out why exactly she hoped for a disease-free world and other positive stuff she hoped for to make us more confident of the future.

The third blog I read was Sandra's. She to has done what Allyson and Jessica has done and they were all amazing. But what I like the most about Sandra's blog was that she connected a few very unusual things to help her readers sort of understand what she is trying to say. For example, she sort of connected how we would react to 2109 to how people from 500 years ago would react to 2009. Here is an example of what I just explained in Sandra's words. "If you think about it, just imagine that a person from the past came back to life again to the 21 first century. Think about what they would see and how different their life was compared to now." Read Sandra's blog to know exactly what she thought about it and try to make your own predictions.

So as you can see or have read that each one of these are excellent. Theirs and many of the others I read were done really well for many different reasons.

History of the Future-Assignment #3

Have you ever wondered how much our lives could change in the next century? To list the obvious, if we are still alive we will be over 100 years old, or dead. However, that is not what this blog is about. In this blog I will be talking about how the environment, the population, politics, and big historical events might change or take place in the next century.

The environment is probably one of the biggest changes that might impact our lives in the 22nd century. For example, due to all our carelessness we already have global warning, which will soon dry up all the water on earth. Also, sooner or later there won't be enough trees for paper, which probably means that in the 22nd century or later the children would probably never see paper in their lives. Without as many trees there is going to be a few more changes that might take place. For instance, usually when children play together in the park, their first suggestions are to climb trees or play hide and seek. However, that is going to be a little hard because there probably aren't going to be as many trees in the park as there usually is. Also, in the next few centuries, due to all the technology taking place, and all the self sufficient factories that have been in Canada for centuries, may as well pollute the air and have the people shifted to another planet. It's a good thing they found water on Mars. Therefore, if we don't find a way to save our planet from pollution soon, Earth is not going to be in good condition in the 22nd century (2109).

The population is going to change a little as well. To begin with, it might not be as soon as the 22nd century but at some point in time our planet will be over populated. However, by 2109 the population on Earth and in Canada will be a lot more then it is now. A few reasons why I said that is because when Canada first became a country there weren't as many citizens as there are now. For example, when I was learning about New France, they mentioned that they had to pay citizens to marry early (at the age of 16-20) and have a family. By the next few centuries they are probably going to have a limited amount of children allowed per family, just like I read in a book about the 22nd century.

I don't think that there is going to be much change for politics, unless our prime minister is an alien or a robot. Which can be possible, yet unlikely. However, I do think that there will be a big political based historical event. For example, since in America they already have a black president, I think that by the time it is 2109 we will have our first native, black or someone of a different background as our prime minister. Maybe that prime minister might be one of you. Who knows? Another big historical event that might happen in the next few centuries, is that a few of our astronauts might visit Mars. Their visit to Mars will probably lead to some of our citizen visiting Mars, and soon some of us would actually be able to go there for a holiday or to go shopping or something. That would be an experience alright.

Overall, I think that by 2109 we the people, Canada, and Earth will be going through many changes that may effect us in many ways. But we can't be certain because 2109 is a long time from now and anything can happen during that period of time.

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Hi everybody, this is Shukria. In case you are wondering, I am in grade 7, and I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I am really looking forward to doing the remainder of my history classes online. It really makes history a whole lot less stressful. If you happen to reach my blog at some point, feel free to respond and leave comments. Thank-you.

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