This is an innovative Grade 9 Social Studies textbook and teacher's resource created to meet the needs of the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation's common core curriculum. Recognizing the increasing interdependence of each Atlantic province within both the regional and the global community, the book focuses on five broad interrelated themes: physical setting; culture; economics; technology and interdependence. Students are engaged in a set of ordered and required processes and actions to ensure they acquire the understandings related to these themes. State-of-the-art teaching strategies are incorporated to elicit an active response from students and apply the knowledge they have lea ed to the real world of Atlantic Canada. Values such as responsibility and tolerance are emphasized as well as respect for the traditions, institutions and the rich cultural heritage of the region.

Atlantic Canada in the Global Community

Education & Teaching

Crewe, James

Schools & Teaching

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Little Snowshoe is an easy-to-read book, which bases its storyline on the camouflage ability of the snowshoe rabbit. Set in the Arctic, the story unfolds with Little Snowshoe looking for his mother. Against the whiteness of the snow he is continually fooled by other objects that he mistakes for her. Finally, exhausted from his search, he falls asleep to be awakened by his mother who has found him.

Little Snowshoe

Children's Books

Obed Bryan, Ellen

Animals

Here, too, I would express my sincere appreciation of the contribution to the book from Mr. Cabot, who, descendent of the ancient explorers, is peculiarly well fitted to speak of Labrador. The great peninsula has been, as he terms it, his "playground," and by canoe in summer or on snowshoes in winter he has travelled thousands of miles in the interior, thus placing himself in closest touch with it.   To Dr. Cluny Macpherson for his generous service I am deeply grateful.   To George Elson for his loyal devotion to Mr. Hubbard and myself my debt of gratitude must ever remain unpaid.   To Dr. James E. C. Sawyer, my beloved pastor, I am indebted for the title of my book.

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

History

Hubbard, Mina Benson

World

Captain Joe Barbour was born in Newton, Bonavista Bay, in 1898. He began sailing as a boy and at the age of twenty-one he first became master of a vessel. For many years he sailed the treacherous waters of Newfoundland's Northeast coast, carrying provisions from St. John's to the outports. In 1932, while on one of these voyages in his three mastered schooner, Neptune II, he was driven off course across the Atlantic to the coast of Scotland by several storms. His thrilling story is the subject of this book.

Forty Eight Days Adrift (Canada's Atlantic Folklore-Folklife Series)

Barbour, Captain Job

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Shannon Ryan was bo and received his early education in Riverhead, Harbor Grace. He has studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland (BA (Ed.), BA, MA), the University of London (Ph.D.) and the University of Oslo. He worked for some time as a schoolteacher in Canada and is presently Associate professor of History at Memorial University. His areas of research and publication are Newfoundland fisheries history and Newfoundland oral history. By 1814 the community of Newfoundland had become the beneficiary of a major British economic enterprise-the salt fish industry. Recognition of Newfoundland's status as a crown colony soon to follow and with the granting of responsible gove ment by the mother country in 1855 Newfoundland's political status was among the most advanced in the Empire. However the colony's salt fish trade continued to operate within the network established and maintained by Great Britain and it became increasingly evident that political independence was not to be accompanied by commercial independence. Newfoundland's history during the period from 1814 to 1914 is an important part of the history of North Atlantic Commerce in general and British Commerce in particular. It is also the story of the colony's efforts to grow politically and culturally in the context of the commercial realities of its saltfish trade.

Fish Out of Water: The Newfoundland Saltfish Trade 1814-1914

Business & Money

Ryan, Shannon

Economics

Beowulf: A New Translation into Modern English Verse (English and Old English Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Gildea, Roberts

History & Criticism

Gander is one of the best known small towns in the world, especially among weste and easte Europeans. Russians know it with familiarity. This book is not about Gander, however, despite its notoriety; rather it conce s the great wilde ess that surrounds Gander, the magnificent Gander River, laden with salmon; the limitless forests abounding with game. Much has been written about the seafaring Newfoundlander and his exploits on the bay, bight, tickle or sea, but literally nothing has been written about the Newfoundlander as a woodsman. This book then, fills that tremendous gap and gives us, through the life-long experiences of one man, all the excitement, lure and love that a preoccupation with the land can bring.

Rattles and Steadies: Memoirs of a Gander River Man (Canada's Atlantic Folklore and Folklife Series)

Saunders, Gary

Sports & Outdoors

This book is designed for senior high school students. An experienced teaching team whose editorial skills created stimulating and challenging activities for classroom use in this anthology.

Landings: A Newfoundland and Labrador Literature Anthology

Sparkes, Stanley

World Literature

Rattles and Steadies: Memoirs of a Gander River Man (Canada's Atlantic Folklore-Folklife Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Saunders, Gary L.

Memoirs

Wet and Fat: Whales and Seals of Newfoundland and Labrador

Science & Math

Lien, Jon

Biological Sciences

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