PART 1: The Classroom Issue Referendum PART 2: The Community Meeting PART 3: Writing the Newspaper PART 4: The Class Newfoundland Referendum PART 5: Creating the Class Timeline Display PART 6: Closure

Learning Outcomes

1. Knowledge
   Students will understand:
   • the purpose, nature and mechanics of a referendum
   • that Newfoundlandersparticipated in a referendum to decide whether or not to join Confederation
   • the important role played by the press/ media in a referendum campaign
   • the historical context of, and the positions taken in, the Newfoundland referendum of 1948
   • the terms "colony", "community meeting", and "responsible government"

2. Attitudes
   Students will appreciate:
   • the complexity of the issues and the emotions involved in the referendum vote that brought Newfoundland into the Canadian Confederation

3. Skills
   Students will be able to:
   • develop and ask questions to get information
   • synthesize and communicate information orally
   • collaboratively synthesize information and write a newspaper story or an editorial from notes prepared at a community meeting
   • express a position in writing
   • evaluate information about the Newfoundland Referendum question in order to vote Yes or No in the simulated referendum

4. Experiential
   Students will:
   • participate in role playing, either as panelists answering questions or reporters asking questions of the panelists, at a simulated community meeting
   • participate in a simulated referendum