Residential Schools Today, Mr. Fisher and I read the 'I am Not a Number' to you in the library. We learned more about how poorly the indigenous people of Canada were treated. We learned that the last residential school closed in 1996. Many of us were able to connect to 'When I was Eight' and 'Not My Girl'. Imagine if you were taken from your family and put into a school where you were basically treated like a prisoner. How would this make you feel? Imagine how the 150,000+ children felt when they were stolen from their families and forced into these schools. As Mr. Fisher mentioned in class, this was a very 'HEAVY' topic.
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1.) LA/NOVEL APPROACH:
2.) MATH:
3.) POST A RESPONSE:
VIDEO LINK:
History For Kids - Canadian Residential Schools
FRIDAY POTLUCK: Click here to sign up. Everyone is expected to contribute.
1.) LA/NOVEL APPROACH:
- Your first draft of your powerful response is due tomorrow.
- If you haven't shared it with me yet, be sure to do that so I can give you some feedback. I have included some of the resources below:
- Powerful response Rubric/Criteria
- Powerful Response Template
- Example of how to use the template (Developing-Applying)
- Powerful Response example 1 (Applying-Extending)
- Powerful response example 2 (Applying)
2.) MATH:
- Test on Friday (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and order of operations with integers)
3.) POST A RESPONSE:
- Today, we started our poetry unit by creating some fun and easy acrostic poems.
- For your PAR today, write a new acrostic poem using the title of one of the books we have read in class. Choose 'When I was Eight', 'Not My Girl, or 'I am Not a Number'.
- Watch this video to review some of the things you learned today.
- The underlying themes should be 'RECONCILIATION'. This is a heavy topic, but a necessary one.
VIDEO LINK:
History For Kids - Canadian Residential Schools
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