Student/Teacher

Role Play

Setting

This role play puts you in 18th century Acadie, at the time of the Deportation. You will have to make a series of decisions that will help to demonstrate the anguish and uncertainty associated with the displacement of populations, in this case the Deportation of the Acadians. Through a work of art inspired by the Deportation, you will be able to express what you felt during this role play and what this event means to you.

Start-up question

What does the Deportation of 1755 mean to you? Justify.

Task

Prepare an oral presentation in which you will explain your thoughts on the subject of the Deportation.

Guidelines

• Do the role play.
• Using the Stories section: The Arts, identify a work of art (painting, song, etc.) that expresses what you felt during the role play and what the Grand Dérangement means to you.
• Extend your knowledge of this event by consulting the History section.
• In an oral presentation, explain why you chose the work of art you did.

Keywords

Here are a few keywords which you will learn during this activity:

• Allegiance
• Assimilation
• Causality
• Change
• Chronologiy
• Conflict
• Deportation
• Space
• War and peace
• Identity
• Migrations
• Time

Essential and optional resources

Essential resources

• Role play: The Deportation of the Acadians (Flash | HTML)
• Web site: 1755: The History and the Stories
  History section; Stories section: The Arts

Optional resources

• Web site: 400 ans de présence française au Canada, 1604-2004
  http://www.umoncton.ca/2004
• Web site: Francophonies canadiennes: Identités culturelles
  Acadie section
  http://www.francoidentitaire.ca/acadie/accu/accucadr.htm