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The Impossible Quiz

This is not history related but it is educational.
It is --THE IMPOSSIBLE QUIZ-- , it is really hard and makes you use your brain. I had to try it multiple and multiple times to get even past a few rounds so don't think that you are not smart if you fail. I think it might be actually an impossible quiz, because i went really far(level 43)and then failed, so I'm not sure. Anyways try it out and tell me what you think. Have Fun!

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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Assignment 7 - Canadian Personalities

For assignment 7 , we are vsiting the musem of civilization's site on Canadian personalities.

4.)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?

a.) I liked the "We inspired" section the most with Gabrielle Roy, Peter Pitseolak, Morderai Richler, Herman Smith and Arthur Lismer. I like this section because I like reading about people who have inspiring lives, such as artists and authors.

b.) Which personality interested you the most? Why?

Nellie McClung interested me the most because she has done so much in her life time and made a big inpact on Canadian feminisims. She also became one of the famous 5, who has a statue on parliment hill. My Nana was talking about them and got me thinking of how much woman can do now compared to back when Nellie's time. Before woman couldn't even go to school or vote! Even though I liked the "we inspired" section the most I found Nellie McClung the most inspirational person out of everyone. I also found the "we inspired" section rather interestiong to read about with people such as; Gabrielle Roy because she was a journalist and I like to write. And Arthur Lismer becuase he was the founder of the group of seven; a very good group of artists who inspire me.

Nellie McClung

Nellie McClung was born on October 20,1873 in Chatsworth ,Ontario. She had several roles in her lifetime including: a teacher, temperance leader, suffragist, lecturer, politician, historian, wife, mother, and activist. In 1886, at the age of 16, she became a teacher and fought against Canadian feminism. Nellie then met social reformer "Annie McClung". In 1890 Nellis married Annie's son, Robert Wesley McClung. Nellie and Robert had five children together. At the age of 35, in 1908, Nellie had her first novel published "Sowing Seeds in Danny" It became a bestseller. In 1916 women in Mantioba won the right to vote. As a member of the "famous five" Nellie McClung wins the legal recognition of woman as "persons" in 1929. She was a Liberal member of the Alberta Legislature for Edmonton from 1921-1926. She was also a famous writer, authoring numerous articles, essays, and 15 books. Nellie was an active journalist and founder of severl clubs. At the age of 78 the sad death of Nellie McClung happened on September 1, 1951 in Victoria, British Columbia.

Quote by Nellie McClung:

" believe in the human race, in spite of its shortcomings, as the expression of divinity upon earth, and leading onward and upward to something brighter and better. I believe that there is nothing too good to be true."

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.

C.) The first person I am going to mention that I think should be added to the personalities web page should be

Emily Carr, born on December 13th, 1871 in Victoria, British Columbia and died on March 2nd, 1945. She was a famous Candain Artist and writer. Emily was inspired by the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. She would fit well I think in the "we inspired" setion. I think she should be put on the site because she focused a lot natives and landscapes so that could attract people who like tht kind of work or people who like authors. I also saw her exhibit at the National Gallery Of Canada.

The second person I chose was Joni Mitchell. She was born on November 7, 1943 and is one of canada's most famous musician, song righter and painter. I really enjoy lisining to her music and I think she would be very inspring to people because she is not only a singer and writes her own songs but she also an artist! ( the group she would be in is the "we inspired" setion)

The third person I chose was: jim carrey, born on January 17, 1962 in newmarket,Ontario who is presently 47 years old is a film actor and comedian. He would fit great in the "we inspired setion". I have seen some movie's of him acting and I found him a good actor and he is great at doing diffrent voices to, he is also a great comidean and is a very well knowen person.

Some other's that would be also great to add to the site are:

Catherine O'Hara ,Robert Munch, , Pierre Bouvier, ellen page .

**You can play a fun history game and find out what personlatite matches you the best by clicking on the link- Mystery history-maker Match-up . **

7.)

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?

I had the most in common with Lucy Maud Montgomery (When righting She goes by L.M. Montgomery)

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born November 30, 1874 in Clifton (now known as New London), Prince Edward Island. She became one of Canada's most famous writers. Her most known novel is "Anne Of Green Gables" which was published in 1908. She commited suicide at the age of 68.

What I have in Common with L.M. Montgomery:

We were both born in the month of November. I was born on November 22 and she was born on November 30.

We both love to read.

She is a writer and I hope to one day publish novels.

Things that are diffrent between L.M. Montgomery and I :

She commited suicide and that is something I would never do.

Clues for Mystery History Match Up Game:

1.) I was born on November 30, 1874 in Clifton Prince Edward Island.

2.) I wrote my books in enghish, but they since have been translated into dozens of languages.

3.) I love reading and began my lifelong habit of writing a dairy when I was 9 years old. My first poem was published when I was 15.

4.) I was called by my middle name Maud.

5.) I belonged to several book clubs, as well as the Canadian Woman's Press Club.

6.) When I was 15 ,I crossed Canada by train and at 35 I made my first trip to the United States to visit my publisher in Boston. My husband and I went to Europe for our honeymoon.

7.) Unlike some people of my day I belived that the right of good education belonged to everyone - even girls.

8.) Streets, schools and libraires have been named for me.

~Many Awards and scholarships are given in my honour.

~ My most famous creation, Anne of Green Gables appeared on a postage stamp in 1975.

On the second clue I definitely knew it was an author, but I didn't know it was L.M. Montgomery until the last clue given (number 8) were it said she wrote the series " Anne of Green Gables".

L.M. Montgomery's writing:

Novels

First page of "Anne of Green Gables", published in 1908
Anne of Green Gables (1908)
Anne of Avonlea (1909) (sequel to Anne of Green Gables)
Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
The Story Girl (1911)
The Golden Road (1913) (sequel to The Story Girl)
Anne of the Island (1915) (sequel to Anne of Avonlea)
Anne's House of Dreams (1917) (sequel to Anne of Windy Poplars)
Rainbow Valley (1919) (sequel to Anne of Ingleside)
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) (sequel to Rainbow Valley)
Emily of New Moon (1923)
Emily Climbs (1925) (sequel to Emily of New Moon)
The Blue Castle (1926)
Emily's Quest (1927) (sequel to Emily Climbs)
Magic for Marigold (1929)
A Tangled Web (1931)
Pat of Silver Bush (1932)
Mistress Pat (1935) (sequel to Pat of Silver Bush)
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) (sequel to Anne of the Island)
Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)
Anne of Ingleside (1939) (sequel to Anne's House of Dreams)

Short story collections
Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
The Road to Yesterday (1974)
The Doctor's Sweetheart (1979)
Akin to Anne: Tales of Other Orphans (1988)
Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea (1989)
Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side (1990)
After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed (1991)
Against the Odds: Tales of Achievement (1991)
At the Altar: Matrimonial Tales (1994)
Across the Miles: Tales of Correspondence (1995)
Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories (1995)

Short Stories by chronological order
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1896 to 1901 (2008) Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1902 to 1903 (2008)
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1904 (2008) Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1905 to 1906 (2008)
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1907 to 1908 (2008)
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1909 to 1922 (2008)

Poetry
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery (1887)
The Watchman & Other Poems (1916)

Non-fiction
Courageous Women (1934) (with Marian Keith and Mabel Burns McKinley)

Autobiography
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (1917)
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. I - V (1985-2004)

8.) 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.

E.) Sarah Anne Shapiro was born on November 22,1995 in Otawa, Ontario.

She was a : wife, mother, writer, teacher, scientist assistant, bowler, and brought jope jumping to the olympics. At age 10 Sarah started taking jope jumping classes. She recognized the health benefits as well as the difficulty of the tricks involved at an early age. She fought for many years to have it added as an Olympic sport and at age 34 she accomplished that dream. Sarah was married at age 22 and had 3 children. Sarah novel was published in 2020 and became a series of 10 books. She later also published 6 other novels and 5 children's stories. Sarah was a teacher of Science and English at her former high school, Canterbury High, in Ottawa. Later her love of science led her into a job of scientist assistant at the NRC in Ottawa helping to discover a cure for AIDS. Sarah died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 105, November 23, 2100.

Here are 2 videos of children rope jumping who became Olympians.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnChvpipSps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeekJ_KK5ig

Sites:

http://www.pitara.com/magazine/people/online.asp?story=36

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_McClung

http://www.abheritage.ca/famous5/achievements/nellie_mcclung.html

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Oliver Jones ~Jazz pianist, organist, composer,and arranger

For this assignment we have to write a short report on an African Canadian. 20 people will be chosen out of 110 to read their reports on the annoucements each day in February for black history month.

I am doing my assignment on Oliver Jones. I saw him at the jazz festival in June and really liked his music.

Oliver Jones has become one of Canada’s finest pianist, organist, composer, and arranger. Born on September 11, 1934 in little Burgundy Montreal. At the age of 3 Jones heard a song once on the radio and played it from memory on the piano. Oliver first studied classical music with Mme Bonner in a church in little Burgundy. By age 5 he was performing publicly. He then did more studies with Oscar Peterson's sister “Daisy Peterson Sweeney" and continued lessons with her for 12 years. Most of his studies came from her. By the time he was 9 Oliver had his first night club appearance. Oscar Peterson was one of Jone's role models and friends. Oscar Peterson was also one of Canada's greatest jazz pianist and composers.

Jone's six decade musical career has been rich and varied.
He has done everything from classical to swing to rock n' roll in his career since jazz was not considered a viable career when he started preforming. Since he was a small child Jones wanted to be a jazz musician. When he was young he was famous for his classical music and was internationally famous for classical music into his twenties. In 1980 at the age of 46 his dream of being a jazz musician was finally within his reach. In 1964 he was presented with the opportunity to become musical director and pianist for Jamaican singer, Kenny Hamilton, a position which he held for sixteen years.

When I saw Oliver Jones preform at the Ottawa Jazz festival, he played the concert in two parts. The first part was music he had composed. The second part was a tribute to his good friend Oscar Peterson, who had recently died. It was a very emotinal concert for all watching and on stage. I was very happy to have experienced such an event of one respected Canadian musician doing a tribute to another great Canadian. As said by many, Oliver Jones is one of the greatest pianists in jazz history.

Oliver Jones' Awards:

1996
Honourary Doctorate St. Francis Xavier University

1995
Honourary Doctorate of Music McGill University

1994
Felix (awarded by ADISQ, representing the Québec music industry) for his solo piano
recording, "Just 88".

1994
The Order of Canada, for outstanding contributions to music in Canada and internationally.

1993
Martin Luther King Jr. Award given bu the Black Artists Workshop, for excellence in music.

1992
Honourary Doctorate in Music, Laurentian University

1990
Oscar Peterson Award, given by the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

1989
Felix award for best jazz album of 1989, "Just Friends" given by ADISQ

1986
Juno Award for best jazz album of 1986, "Lights of Burgundy"

1984
PROCAN (now SOCAN) Award for composition

Sites:

http://www.brockvilleconcert.ca/jonestrio.htm

http://www.hour.ca/music/music.aspx?iIDArticle=12332

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0D91F3FF930A15757C0A961948260

http://people.stfx.ca/profiles/ojones/profile.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Jones_(pianist)

http://www.aelaq.org/mrb/article.php?issue=19&article=568&cat=4

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001783

http://www.justin-time.com/authors/oliverjones/

Here is oliver jone's music:

I hope you enjoyed reading my report, if you have any questions or comments please let me know. I am looking forward to read what other people wrote for their assignments, I am going to go read them now, so I will have to catch you latter, bye!

~ Sarah ( Whippy)

Hello Pollers!

Hello to all that voted on my last poll.
I got 5 votes on my poll, and apparently everyone likes blogging waaayy more the textbooks, that's great because i find it very fun to do too. As you can see i added 2 new polls that you can vote on. The one at the top is what time period you would want to live in and the other poll that is located at the bottom of the page, is what assignment you like more, i will add on to that poll as we get more assignments. Sometimes the polls will just be randomized history questions, or they could be based on the assignment we just had. The time period one is based on assignment 3, i will probably make one for the other assignments we got too. If you have any questions please go ahead and post one. I would love it if i also got a few more comments too, because than i can know if i need to improve any thing on my blog, or it would be great to know if you enjoyed my assignments,well anyways catch you latter,

Sarah (or sometimes referred to as whippy)

p.s. I will be giving the results to each poll, and i would like to know if you think i should just post the results, and leave it for a few days, and than delete it , or should i keep it on my blog.

** update**
I will be posting the results to the polls right here each week: What do you think of technology is it good, bad?:The were 14 votes on this poll, this it what people said- 50% of the people said technology is good, 36% of the people said some technology is good but not all, and 14% of the people said it's both bad and good. you can also see the results on the quiz, i will leave the poll for a day or so and then i will be removed, i will be posting a new poll shortly!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

How well do you know your history?( The questions are rated, easy, medium, or hard)

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I hope you liked the quiz I made, Please tell me what you think of it once you have done the quiz, I would appriate your opions, Thanks.

~Sarah ( Whippy)

Thursday, January 15, 2009

it-it-it's co-co-ol-ol-dddddd!!!

HELLO fellow classmates, Miss Pollock, and other viewer's.
This assignment (#5) is thinking about how the early settlers came to Canada. They didn't have any warm mittens , hats, boots or scarf's and stayed in Canada during the cold winters. How can the early settlers survive with no warm winter clothing?

We have to do research how early Canadians survived, and use a few links our teacher miss Pollock gave us. We have to Discuss some of the challenges early Canadians had to face due to the coldness of winter and we have to think about the things people need in order to survive and consider whether it was more difficult to get these
things in winter.
Then we:
-Write about how early Canadians learned to deal with the extreme cold
-Find out and write about how and why your family came to Canada
-Find out and write about how your family learned to deal with the extreme cold
-In your entry, include links to sites where you found your information, and quote at least two of the pieces of information you learned.

IT-IT-IT'S CO-CO-OL-OL-DDDDD!!!!!

Yes,it sure is cold here in Canada, a few days a go it was -40 with the windshield and if you stayed outside even for 10 minuets, you would get frostbite,Yikes!I wonder how in the world ,the first settlers survive in our cold winters, and settled: by making a house, jobs, traveled, Clothing wise and much more.

Why did immigrants want to come to Canada and settle here in the first place?

Immigrants wanted to come to Canada because the government had control over their way of living in their country,and they were not aloud to do a lot of things,and have a lot of freedom. There was also no jobs that payed good, so people were very poor. Some families were so poor that they can barley survive. As I mentioned people were not aloud to do much, but they were also forced to do things as well, the men had to serve in the army even if they didn't want to. Also cities were overcrowded, and were very dirty and polluted. Once everyone herd the government of CANADA was offering those settlers willing to settle on the prairie, free land,some people stated making there way to Canada. For many settles ,moving to Canada was an excellent opportunity to own their own land, and have a better lifestyle. "Some also moved to Canada because Canada had plenty of jobs available. Other's immigrated hoping to make money and buy land or start up a business."
All those things I know were sad, how people were forced to do things they didn't want to and many were on the edge of dieing. I think all of those settlers who decided to move to Canada made the right choice, also they were really brave to come to unknown land, and start living there life's, in this new country.

Arriving in the new country:

Once settlers arrived in Canada they could not go on and start to settle. "They were given medicals and their travel papers were checked over. During this time, they stayed in large buildings called immigration halls. Their next journey was by train to the prairies."
After settlers had to travel in train cars that were called " Colonial Cars."The journey was from Quebec to western Canada and it took about 4 to 6 days to reach there destination. A lot of the time trains had no heat and were overcrowded with people, they must have felt like they were back in the country, but hopefully they won't fell like that for long. While traveling there was a lot of delays, and
Passengers had to bring their own food, or buy food during the trip. Then after the rough trip they had reach there destination. Families unloaded all there items and bought all the things they would need to start there settlement.

Transportation: Once people got horses some also got a covered wagon. I covered wagon, was the only transportation back then besides walking, and by horse,and it could also transport more than one person,not like riding a horse, and Carrie multiple items.

This picture is from a pageant ( Little house in the prairie),of a covered wagon.

Building a home:
Some settlers started to live in a tent, until they could afford, or until they got the materials they needed to make there sod house and barn. Once settlers found the land they wanted to build their house on, and start there wheat crop they got right to work,it took many days of hard work until everything was ready. Winter was tough for pioneers because heat was not invented yet. They had to warm up by the stove, and use candle light at night. Some time food was a problem in the winter because it was hard for people to find animals to hunt. We are very lucky that now we have heat in our homes and lots of food to keep us satisfied in the winter time. Some time it was hard to get to the store to buy things they needed in the winter, as you know they had to walk and some time it would be several km's to get there and with the winter it was even more difficult. We are again very lucky we have cars now, it is still sometimes difficult to get to the store, but a lot easier than back then.

This picture is an example of a sod house, pioneers lived in.

School's:
Back then to get to a place you had to either walk or take the horse as I mentioned before. So when children had to go to school in the winter it was really changing, because they had to walk, now a lot of students get driven to school or take the bus. Children sometimes couldn't go to school because of blizzards, or bad weather conditions, some children if they had a mother who used to be a school teacher could teach them. There were not that many variety of jobs back then, and for women a school teacher was a good job, and one of the only jobs.

my families Generations

My family has been in Canada for the past 2 generations.

My mother was born in Ottawa, My father was born in Calgary,Alberta.
My Grandma on my Father's side was born in Montreal, My grandpa on my father's side was born in New York. My Grandmother on my Mother's side was born in ottawa,and my Grandpa on my Mother's side was born in Ottawa. So as you can see both my mom and dad were born in Canada , and most of my grandparents were born in Canada, expert for my Grandpa born in New York. My great grandparents on my mom's side were Canadian, and my great grand parents on my father's side were Canadian and American,Unfortunately they are no longer with us today, but I have herd wonderful stories about them.
This is were it gets interesting. Some people may have herd that I am a mix of a lot of Countries, but from what you read so far I am only Canadian, and a part American.
Well that's because my great great grand parents are all from different countries. Well let's start with my grandpa's parents on my dad's side. His father was from Russia and his mother was from Poland. My grandma's, mother was from England and her father was from Germany. Now my grandpa's parents on my mother's side was from china, and his mother was French Canadian. My grandma on my mother's side parents are from Scotland. I hope that was no to confusing for you.

How my family traveled to Canada and why(including with some points how they survived the cold winter's)

My grandpa(on my father's side)- He left the U.S. in his early adult years by himself and came to Canada because he didn't like the bad things that were happing in the states at the time. He disied to come to Canada because he herd it was a really nice place, and it was a pretty similar environment to were he was living in new York. He had a good life in Canada,he found a beautiful Young women that he found to his likings and actually got married to her and they had 2 kids,he also had 2 photography business.

My great great grandparents came to Canada because they wanted a better place to raise their children and for their children to have a good education. They had to come by boat to get here,and it probably took them a longer time because boats don't go that fast. It was really hard for some people to travel when it was winter time, including my Grandpa's parents on my mom's side. They had keep warm by staying close together huddled.

Where I got my information:

As a know it is important to show where you found your information so here is all the things i used:
~http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/settlers6.html

~http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/settlers5.html

~http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/settlers2

~http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/settlers1.html

Those are all from the same site, but are different pages on the site.

~ little house books, I read a series called the little house books, they are a true story about a pioneer girl growing up. There are 9 books in the series. I used my knowledge from reading those and I looked in them if I needed to check something in the books.

~I hoped you enjoyed reading my jornal entry, and always fell free to replay to my entries and tell me your opions on it, things you liked about it, things you think i should improve on, a question you might have, or anything!

~Don't miss out on my history quiz i just posted up. I will be adding more quizzes and activites shortly,anyways bye for now and happy blogging.

~ Sarah ( Whippy)

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Friday, February 27, 2009

Louis Riel.. YAY

Sunday, February 22, 2009

The Impossible Quiz

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Assignment 7 - Canadian Personalities

Sunday, February 1, 2009

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Oliver Jones ~Jazz pianist, organist, composer,and arranger

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

How well do you know your history?( The questions are rated, easy, medium, or hard)

Thursday, January 15, 2009

it-it-it's co-co-ol-ol-dddddd!!!

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