Lesson 30 — Activity 1: Assignment
Completion requirements
1. If you wish to use one of the graphic organizers presented in the L29 — A1: Assignment, print it off, complete it, and hand it in to your teacher so it can be marked.
2. If you wish to develop a graphic organizer of your own in a Word document, save your document, and either send it to your teacher as an e-mail attachment or print it off and hand it in to your teacher so it can be marked.
3. You can also choose to complete a hand-written assignment on a piece of paper. If so, please hand in your assignment to your teacher so it can be marked.
See the Marking Guide below to see how your teacher will grade this assignment.
Marking Guide:
In this assignment, create an organizer of some kind that identifies the main points of the section of a report you see below. (The information comes from an article called Becoming the Enemy from http://www.italiancanadianww2.ca/theme/detail/becoming_the_enemy.)
In a speech given on the evening of June 10, 1940, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini informed listeners that formal declarations of war had been sent to the governments of England and France. Within minutes, word reached Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Orders were quickly given to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to arrest “persons of Italian nationality and origin who might be … capable of committing sabotage and other acts which would be detrimental to the welfare of [Canada] in the event of a war with Italy.” (Norman A. Robertson, Department of External Affairs, to Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, May 29, 1940, Library and Archives Canada.) This included individuals of Italian birth, living in Canada, who belonged to the fascio.
Mussolini’s decision to join the war on the side of Germany had many repercussions for Italian Canadians. Along with mass arrests and internment, many others faced enemy alien designations, loss of work, vandalism, verbal abuse, and violence. Families had to cope with the absence of a parent who was interned. In most cases, this caused a great deal of hardship.
Mass Arrests
Within half an hour of Mussolini’s declaration, police at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels were mobilized and began arresting individuals across the country. Suspects were taken from their place of work, and homes were ransacked by police in an attempt to find evidence.
Once in police custody, Italian Canadians were taken to local jails to await transfer to internment camps. Many had no idea why they found themselves in this situation. They were not told what was going to happen to them.
- Your organizer can be visual (a mind map, a graphic organizer, or a drawing) or it can take the form of an outline — whatever you wish.
- The key is to pull out the most important ideas from the excerpt above and put them into two or three major categories with at least three key ideas in each category.
- Don't forget to identify the main idea of the whole piece. Feel free to look back at L29 — A1: Assignment, which contained ideas for graphic organizers. If you use one of those, you may just need to change it slightly to add more space for supporting details.
When done, review using this Rubric that your teacher will use to mark your work.
In this assignment, create an organizer of some kind that identifies the main points of the section of a report you see below. (The information comes from an article called Becoming the Enemy from http://www.italiancanadianww2.ca/theme/detail/becoming_the_enemy.)
When done, review using this Rubric that your teacher will use to mark your work.
In a speech given on the evening of June 10, 1940, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini informed listeners that formal declarations of war had been sent to the governments of England and France. Within minutes, word reached Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Orders were quickly given to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to arrest “persons of Italian nationality and origin who might be … capable of committing sabotage and other acts which would be detrimental to the welfare of [Canada] in the event of a war with Italy.” (Norman A. Robertson, Department of External Affairs, to Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, May 29, 1940, Library and Archives Canada.) This included individuals of Italian birth, living in Canada, who belonged to the fascio.
Mussolini’s decision to join the war on the side of Germany had many repercussions for Italian Canadians. Along with mass arrests and internment, many others faced enemy alien designations, loss of work, vandalism, verbal abuse, and violence. Families had to cope with the absence of a parent who was interned. In most cases, this caused a great deal of hardship.
Mass Arrests
Within half an hour of Mussolini’s declaration, police at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels were mobilized and began arresting individuals across the country. Suspects were taken from their place of work, and homes were ransacked by police in an attempt to find evidence.
Once in police custody, Italian Canadians were taken to local jails to await transfer to internment camps. Many had no idea why they found themselves in this situation. They were not told what was going to happen to them.
Mussolini’s decision to join the war on the side of Germany had many repercussions for Italian Canadians. Along with mass arrests and internment, many others faced enemy alien designations, loss of work, vandalism, verbal abuse, and violence. Families had to cope with the absence of a parent who was interned. In most cases, this caused a great deal of hardship.
Mass Arrests
Within half an hour of Mussolini’s declaration, police at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels were mobilized and began arresting individuals across the country. Suspects were taken from their place of work, and homes were ransacked by police in an attempt to find evidence.
Once in police custody, Italian Canadians were taken to local jails to await transfer to internment camps. Many had no idea why they found themselves in this situation. They were not told what was going to happen to them.
- Your organizer can be visual (a mind map, a graphic organizer, or a drawing) or it can take the form of an outline — whatever you wish.
- The key is to pull out the most important ideas from the excerpt above and put them into two or three major categories with at least three key ideas in each category.
- Don't forget to identify the main idea of the whole piece. Feel free to look back at L29 — A1: Assignment, which contained ideas for graphic organizers. If you use one of those, you may just need to change it slightly to add more space for supporting details.
When done, review using this Rubric that your teacher will use to mark your work.
You may use a computer or paper to complete this assignment.
When you are done, review for spelling and punctuation.
When you are done, review for spelling and punctuation.
Please do one of the following:
1. If you wish to use one of the graphic organizers presented in the L29 — A1: Assignment, print it off, complete it, and hand it in to your teacher so it can be marked.
2. If you wish to develop a graphic organizer of your own in a Word document, save your document, and either send it to your teacher as an e-mail attachment or print it off and hand it in to your teacher so it can be marked.
3. You can also choose to complete a hand-written assignment on a piece of paper. If so, please hand in your assignment to your teacher so it can be marked.
See the Marking Guide below to see how your teacher will grade this assignment.