This December, students in Trafalgar Elementary's Divisions 4 and 5 hosted other classes and their parents at an Evening of Eminence, where the students shared with everyone everything they had learned about one famous Canadian.
During the afternoon, each student presented the product of their research to students in the gym, and in the evening, with their parents, they dressed the part too. The students also presented a poster board with a biography of their individual, a timeline of their life, a newspaper article about him/her, personal opinions, photographs, and an art project.
"Before meeting parents in the gym, our 'Famous Canadians' strolled the halls meeting parents, all of whom had to try to guess which famous person they were," said Adele Tremblay, the Principal of Trafalgar Elementary.
The list of characters included politicians from the time of Confederation to the present day, scientists, athletes, actors, visual artists, musicians, writers, and inventors.
Here is a short list of the historical and contemporary figures wandering the halls of Trafalgar this December:
Rick Hansen | Isabelle Brasseur | James Gosling | Louise Arbour |
John A. MacDonald | Norman Bethune | Perri Tutleman | Roberta Bondar |
Christy Clark | Nellie McClung | Bill Reid | Arthur Erickson |
Lester B. Pearson | Mike Lazaridis | Samantha Nutt | Joseph Bombardier |
Terry Fox | Kim Campbell | Pierre Trudeau | Jenny Trout |
Michael J. Fox | Jim Carrey | Jacques Cartier | Mike Myers |
Mark Tewksbury | Simon Fraser | Oscar Peterson | Jeanne Mance |
Ross Rebagliati | Frederick Banting | Chris Hadfield | David Suzuki |
Romeo Dallaire | Charles Fenerty | Emily Stowe | Marc Garneau |
Wayne Gretzky | Graham Bell | Andrew Harris | Carly Rae Jepsen |
James Naismith | Alice Munro | Elijah McCoy | Robert Munsch |
Maurice Richard | James Cameron | Julie Payette | Sarah McLachlan |
Karen Kain | William Hall | Emily Carr | Jacques Plante |
Steve Nash | Louis Riel | Celine Dion | James Naismith |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | Samuel de Champlain | George Johann Klein | Joseph Burr Tyrell |
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