Description
What does the site look like?
• Where is it located? Explain in detail the event and its actors that make the physical location significant?
• What is the historical significance of your site?: i.e., what happened there? Who was involved? What was the outcome?
• If the event/person who is the object of the site is controversial, why?; i.e. some sites will honor a person who might not be completely praise-worthy; or, they may pay tribute to an event that does not deserve celebration. Make sure to include an account of this. Remember to continue to employ the rules of reading history critically, even (or, perhaps, especially) in this exercise.
• How is this event/idea/person/change still of significance today?
• If your subject is a person (a plaque or statue commemorating a person):
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o Relate the site to the person: why is this site significant?
o What did this person do to change the situation of labor in Canadian history?
o Did she/he make changes for the better of for the worse?
• If your subject is an event:
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o What was this situation like prior to the unfolding of your event?
o What were some immediate outcomes?
o What were some long-term outcomes?
• What feeling do you get standing where history unfolded? What connections did you make, or did anything become clearer to you standing on that physical site?