Monthly Archives: February 2023

Monday February 27th, 2023

Hello!

*Synthesis Essays are due on Tuesday February 28th.  How are we making out!?

-20 minutes to work on essays

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*Analyzing Poetry:  Choose an appropriate song –one that you connect with.  You will analyze your song following the steps in the “Analyzing Poetry” resource.

 

Thursday February 23rd, 2023

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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Wednesday February 22nd, 2023

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

 

Tuesday February 21st, 2023

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!

Tuesday February 21st, 2022

Hello!

*Reminder: Short story test

Wednesday:  Reading Comprehension:  sight passage with 8/9 multiple choice questions and a paragraph response (take a look at paragraph outline for “Identities”.

Thursday:  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

Synthesis Essays

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