Title: Good Neighbours?
Course: Social Studies 08 - 1.0.0.0 > Section: Unit 5: Indigenous Life and Colonization in Canada

Your task is to find an answer to this focus question:

         Were the early French settlers good neighbours to Indigenous peoples?

You will not be able to create a complete answer just by doing a small amount of research, so your goal is just to find one example that you think shows the French settlers being good neighbours and one that you think shows the French settlers not being good neighbours.

Some possible examples of things to look for:

- Alliances, wars, and battles with Indigenous peoples
- Trade
- Christian missionary activity
- Land claims

Be sure to only use reliable resources and focus your attention on things that happened during the 17th century, starting with Champlain in 1608. You are allowed to research things that happened in settlements in present-day Quebec or in Acadia, which is present-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Write two short paragraphs to describe the events that you researched and explain why you think each is an example of the French settlers being a good neighbour or not being a good neighbour.

Use a website like mybib.com or bibme.org to create a bibliography for all of the websites you used in your research. Your bibliography should be in MLA format, which you can easily select on the bibliography maker of your choice.

Rubric

 | Insufficient Evidence | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Extending
 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Ethical judgements about past events | There is too little content to adequately assess my proficiency. I need to resubmit this assignment. | I show an initial ability to discuss the ethics of past events, providing limited evidence to support my opinions. | I show a satisfactory ability to discuss the ethics of past events, providing some evidence to support my opinions. | I show a complete ability to discuss the ethics of past events, providing meaningful evidence to support my opinions. | I show an outstanding ability to discuss the ethics of past events, providing clear, relevant evidence to support my opinions.