Social Sciences (Geography, History and Citizenship Education), Grade 4

Unit 1: Organization of a society in its territory (French society in New France, around 1645)

Getting to know French society in New France in its founding era - where it took root, who lived there (French and First Nations), how people lived, and how the colony was governed from France.

• Where and when French New France began
• Who lived in New France
• Languages, faith, and daily life
• The fur trade and making a living
• Ruled from France
• How the land shaped the founding colony
• Key people, events, and what remains

Unit 2: Organization of a society in its territory (Canadian society in New France, around 1745)

A century later, New France had grown into a settled Canadian society - larger, more organized, governed by the Sovereign Council, and shaped by leaders like Talon and Frontenac.

• Where and who: Canadian society around 1745
• Culture of the grown colony
• A more developed economy
• The Sovereign Council
• How the land shaped the grown colony
• Key people, events, and lasting traces

Unit 3: Change in a society and its territory

How New France changed across this period - its territory, its organization, and the people and events (like the seigneurial system) that drove the change.

• Changes across the period

Unit 4: Diversity of societies and their territories

Two comparisons: Iroquoian and Inca societies around 1500 (two Indigenous societies of the Americas), and Canadian society in New France versus the Thirteen Colonies around 1745.

• Comparing Iroquoian and Inca societies

• Comparing New France and the Thirteen Colonies

Unit 5: Researching and Techniques

Working with information like a historian - gathering and checking data, and reading illustrated documents from the past.

• Gathering and checking information
• Reading a picture from the past