Good Afternoon!
*Head’s Up: Short story test next week…
Part 1: Reading Comprehension: sight passage with 8/9 multiple choice questions and a paragraph response (take a look at paragraph outline for “Identities”.
Part 2: Short Story Test.
What to prepare:
Stories on Test:
1)Identities 2) Long Long After School
3) A Teachers’ Rewards 4) The Most Dangerous Game
5) The Waltz 6) Borders
7) Dave Cooks a Turkey
-know your prose fiction terms and how to apply terms to the short stories
-Short Answers including synthesis questions between the stories
REASONS TO CREATE A LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT / STATEMENT OF RECONCILIATION
1. To acknowledge
Indigenous histories;
2. To acknowledge that Indigenous Peoples were here first;
3. To acknowledge that
there were Nation-to-Nation
agreements;
4. To acknowledge that these
agreements led to treaties;
5. To acknowledge that it is
because of these treaties that we
have a country called Canada
First let’s look at 500 years of the history of colonization of Canada in 2 minutes:
* We will read the short story “Borders” by Thomas King