CHV2O – Unit 1 – Lesson 4: Voting Rights Through Time

Overview

Duration

100 minutes

Lesson Objective

• Understand how inclusive Canadian democracy is.

Lesson Outcomes

• Explore how voting rights have changed over time.
• Explain how voting rights of different groups of people have changed over time.
• Identify potential turning points in history.
• Create a podcast investigating the voting rights of a particular group of people.

The Lesson

Sequence

1. Cartoon of the Day
2. Starter: What does inclusion and exclusion feel like? [class perspective discussion]
3. The Right to Vote [teacher led discussion and note taking]
4. Task 1. The Right to Vote [group jigsaw activity]
5. Task 2. The Right to Vote Summary [individual questions]
6. Task 3. Consolidation – Voting Rights Through Time [Video and class discussion]
7. Task 4. Graph Analysis
8. Review: Post-it!

Assignment 1.2 | Voting Rights Podcast

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