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Design Your Life

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Students use three different pieces of art and identify the power struggles that are being represented. In groups, they use the Internet to research the distribution of wealth throughout Canada during the Victorian time period. They recreate a painting by Robert Harris by placing themselves in the artwork,

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10th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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