Good Morning!

*Reminder:  make sure you have parents/guardians sign permission forms for our field trip on Friday.

*Reminder:  make sure you have your form signed by your teachers.

*Silent Reading

*Acknowledgement

*Narrative Essays:  We will continue working on these

We read the narrative essay below yesterday…

Why Am I Not On Star Trek

narrativeessay

*Things to think about:

Good Morning!

*In Review :  Last week, looked at stereotypes, single story narratives, creation stories, and oral storytelling.

*This week, we are starting the narrative essay:  sample narrative essay

Why Am I Not On Star Trek

narrativeessay

*Things to think about:

Good Morning!

*Prose Fiction and Indigenous Terms Quiz

Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being

First Peoples Principles of Learning

Aboriginal Ways of Knowing

*Fur Queen excerpt Judeo Christian:  We read this yesterday…today we are going to read a creation story called “Skywoman Falling”

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*The importance of oral Story Telling

*Story Telling Techniques

*On Monday, We will be starting a Narrative Essay Assignment

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Good Morning!

*Acknowledgement

*Reminder:  Prose Fictions and Indigenous Terms Quiz Thursday February 24th, 2023

*No Red Ink:  Embedding Quotations

Additional Terms for Quiz:

Decolonization is a social and political process aimed at resisting and undoing the multifaceted impacts of colonization and re-establishing strong contemporary Indigenous Nations and institutions based on traditional values, philosophies, and knowledge systems.

Blood Memory: is a term often used by Indigenous Peoples to refer to memories stored in one’s body cells and passed on genetically. It is also referred to as a genetic memory or cellular memory.  Blood memory is often described as one’s ancestral or genetic connection to one’s language, songs, ceremonies, land, teachings, etc.

Let’s Recap Some Big Ideas:

1) 7 Sacred Teachings:  Ms. Jackson will be back on Thursday March 2nd.

2) 4 Sacred Medicines

4-Sacred-Medicines

3)  Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being:  What does this mean?

Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being

First Peoples Principles of Learning

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Discussion Questions:

• Analyze together as a class, how did the stories Thomas King shared about his mother and father influence him?
• In the first third of the essay, he discusses how personal stories affect our lives, but they generally don’t go beyond us and the people close to us. Now he will move on to creation stories and the impact that they have on cultures and, sometimes, the world.
• Read/continue listening to 35:05 minutes…two creation stories

Hello!

*Silent Reading

*Acknowledgement

Reminders:

1.  Your paragraph on “Indian Education should have been uploaded to Teams by now.
2. You have a quiz on prose fiction and Indigenous terms on Thursday February 23rd.

*Irony:  On Friday you were asked to do the activity below…please have it out and ready!

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Discussion Questions:

• Analyze together as a class, how did the stories Thomas King shared about his mother and father influence him?
• In the first third of the essay, he discusses how personal stories affect our lives, but they generally don’t go beyond us and the people close to us. Now he will move on to creation stories and the impact that they have on cultures and, sometimes, the world.
• Read/continue listening to 35:05 minutes…two creation stories
• In groups of 2-4, recreate the story he tells in 7-10 key points in a creative way (playdough, comic, poem, lego) Get ready to explain to the class!

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Discussion Questions:

• Analyze together as a class, how did the stories Thomas King shared about his mother and father influence him?
• In the first third of the essay, he discusses how personal stories affect our lives, but they generally don’t go beyond us and the people close to us. Now he will move on to creation stories and the impact that they have on cultures and, sometimes, the world.
• Read/continue listening to 35:05 minutes…two creation stories
• In groups of 2-4, recreate the story he tells in 7-10 key points in a creative way (playdough, comic, poem, lego) Get ready to explain to the class!