Learning About History

Exploring the past is exactly what we are trying to do in our Grade Ten history class. Learning about battles from Passchendaele to Vimy Ridge, we came to understand the past and its technologies: the entrance of different weapons to destroy, and the improvements in the medical field to heal. Exploring the last hundred days of World War l and how the war came to a close was also a big focus. Hearing about the hardships that the soldiers went through to go and liberate took extreme effort and determination to accomplish.

To further understand, our history class went to Ottawa’s War Museum and saw the tomb of the unknown soldier, diagrams of the muddy landscapes, and conditions that humans had to go through during times of conflict. This was startling to some of us. It showed us how delicate peace is. Coming back from the war museum our class was asked to go and create a Remembrance Day assembly. We read stories that our class had written covering the lives of Flying Aces and Navy officers, but we culminated the assembly by reading a list of all the places at war as we sang “Dona Nobis Pacem”, remembering to hope for granted peace.