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Monday February 27th 2023

Task 1: Watch the short documentary, Canadians have been breaking their promises to Indigenous people.

 

Task 2: Go through the Indian Act Activity

Tuesday February 28th 2023

Task 1: Go over the Communal Timeline Activity as a class

Task 2: Watch the following clip: Define the Borgs (What are some qualities that they possess from what you saw in this clip?)

 

Task 3: Read the short story, “Where the Borgs Are,” by Thomas King

 

Task 4: Complete the Discussion questions, for the short story, “Where the Borgs Are.”

• 1. Why was Milton’s teacher dismissive of his essay?
• 2. What is unique about the following groups:

a.Vulcans     b. Borgs     c. Ferengis    d. Klingons   e. Romulans

3. Which characteristics of those groups is a motif (is a distinctive repeating feature or idea)  of the colonizers in your opinion?
4. What was telling when Milton told Ms. Merry, “She said it hurts some people more than others” (King, 138)?

5.In your opinion is Milton and his grandfather’s final theory plausible? Why or why not? What can we learn from their hypothesis?

6.What can Milton’s journey teach us as individuals?

 

Wednesday March 1st 2023

Task 1: Go over the Short Story PowerPoint

Task 2: Go over the discussion questions for the short story

Task 3: Read the poem, A Poem to Duncan Campbell Scott

Task 4: How to Analyze a Poem Guide

Task 5: Students work on the Poem analysis of A Poem to Duncan Camp

 

Task 9: Watch the clip: Intergenerational Trauma: Residential Schools

Task 10: Read the short story, “Charlie”

Task 11: Complete the discussion questions on the short story, “Charlie.”

1. Describe the character of Charlie.

2. How does the author feel about the residential school system? Support your answer with a specific line from the story.

3. . What is the purpose of including the thoughts of the teacher and the father?

4. What is the invisible thing that bothers Charlie? How do you know?

5. Snow is a constant symbol throughout the story. List all of the references you can find to snow. Why do you think this might be included?

6. Discuss the comparison of “Whites” in the story to wolves. Why do you think this is used?

7. What is Charlie’s father most afraid of? Why does he say the boys are “driven by the shame of their own uselessness”?

8. What do you think the author’s main message in this short story?

 

Task 12: Charlie Flip Book Assignment

 

 

 

Monday March 27th 2023 to Friday March 31st 2023

Task 1: Looking At the Indian Act

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/21-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-indian-act-1.3533613

Task 2: Double Exposure Persuasive Write

 

Task 3: Persuasive Writing PowerPoint

 

Task 4: Persuasive Writing Sample Counter-Argument Paragraph

Articles on the Indian Act

The Indian Act

 

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-5/