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THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 11 AND 12 | Canadian and World Studies
period (e.g., social Darwinism, racism, antisemitism, beliefs about gender roles, war, imperialism)
Sample questions: “How and why did imperialist powers limit citizenship rights in their colonies?” “What arguments did opponents of women’s suffrage use to try to justify denying women the vote? Did all advocates of women’s suffrage favour extending the vote to all women?”
B3.4 explain the impact that some key individuals had on society and politics in two or more regions of the world during this period (e.g., Jane Addams, Annie Besant, Henri Bourassa, Georges Clemenceau, Prince Faisal, Vladimir Lenin, King Leopold II, Tsar Nicholas II, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sun Yat-Sen, Pancho Villa, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Woodrow Wilson, J. S. Woodsworth)
Sample questions: “Why do you think people continue to visit the Rosa Luxemburg memorial in Germany? What aspects of her political ideas and beliefs do people continue to relate to or admire?”
B3.5 describe some key cultural developments during this period, and explain their impact on heritage and/or identity in different societies (e.g., with reference to developments in motion pictures; new artistic movements such as expres- sionism or cubism; musical developments such
as ragtime or the music of Tin Pan Alley; the contributions of individuals such as D. W. Griffith, Rudyard Kipling, L. M. Montgomery, Rabindranath Tagore, war poets)
Sample questions: “What are some ways in which World War I affected cultural production? What impact did this production have on national and/or global heritage?”
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