Whale Rider
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1. Research Maori culture
2 .Finish essay
2 .Finish essay
Tuesday May 21
1. Guest Speaker on Maori culture
Wednesday May 22
1. Begin Whale Rider
Thursday May 23
1. Finish Whale Rider
2. Whale Rider Response to text essay outline
2. Whale Rider Response to text essay outline
Monday May 27
1. Finish Whale Rider
2. Essay outline in pairs
2. Essay outline in pairs
Monday June 6
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1. Watch videos on animal/human relationship (animal therapy, animals helping humans)
2. Share a connection or interesting idea from the clips
3. Read "Horses and Cultural Healing" and "a Kindred Spirit"
4. Go over synthesis notes and plan paragraph
2. Share a connection or interesting idea from the clips
3. Read "Horses and Cultural Healing" and "a Kindred Spirit"
4. Go over synthesis notes and plan paragraph
Tuesday June 7
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1. Field trip to a farm
2. Fill out reflection on return
2. Fill out reflection on return
Wednesday-Thursday June 8-9
1. Write animal relationships synthesis essay
Non-fiction Introduction
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1. In pairs, one student is blind folded and the other, without touching them, must explain how to put together a puzzle. Give them ten minutes and then switch.
2. Reflection:
1. What was difficult about this?
2. What helped make this task easier?
3. Would this task have been possible alone (putting a puzzle together blindfolded)? Is it easier as a group?
4. How did this activity make you feel?
5. What type thinking that allowed groups to be successful in this activity? Also note whether this type of thinking is different in any way from what you normally do in school. Is it valuable? Is it easy, hard or just different?
6. How does this activity connect to school? To life?
1. If done blindfolded puzzles earlier in the semester, do a sharing circle on a highlight of Christmas
2. Define: Informational Text (non fiction-articles and reports, magazines and newspapers, print and electronic reference materials, advertising and promotional materials, opinion-based materials, student generated material).
3. First: (Key piece of paper) write down a social issue that you care about-problem in society that you think needs to be fixed. Example: Homelessness, racial or gender equality, poverty, animal rights… etc.
4. Second: Imagine your goal is to educate and raise awareness about this issue. You are creating a campaign to share this info. How do you do this? How do you distribute your message?
(Lead them to the fact there are two key things: Inform- want people to be educated, also connect emotionally-buy in) All emotion, no substance-interest won’t be sustained because people won’t buy in.. All substance no emotion-people don’t care.
5. INFO TEXT: all the techniques you can use to distribute information. You need to be able to read and identify ways that people get their message across.
Three Goals: Identify techniques. Learn about the issue: Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women. Determine which methods of sharing information are most effective.
Students are in partners. Go to tables to fill out their sheets. Label top five most effective ways to convey information.
Come back: debrief. Also- jot down notes: what techniques would you use to distribute info about your chosen topic?
Hand out non-fiction definitions. Assign each student a term. They need to make a short poster with the definition (In their own words), an example and a picture to illustrate. Present if time.
2. Reflection:
1. What was difficult about this?
2. What helped make this task easier?
3. Would this task have been possible alone (putting a puzzle together blindfolded)? Is it easier as a group?
4. How did this activity make you feel?
5. What type thinking that allowed groups to be successful in this activity? Also note whether this type of thinking is different in any way from what you normally do in school. Is it valuable? Is it easy, hard or just different?
6. How does this activity connect to school? To life?
1. If done blindfolded puzzles earlier in the semester, do a sharing circle on a highlight of Christmas
2. Define: Informational Text (non fiction-articles and reports, magazines and newspapers, print and electronic reference materials, advertising and promotional materials, opinion-based materials, student generated material).
3. First: (Key piece of paper) write down a social issue that you care about-problem in society that you think needs to be fixed. Example: Homelessness, racial or gender equality, poverty, animal rights… etc.
4. Second: Imagine your goal is to educate and raise awareness about this issue. You are creating a campaign to share this info. How do you do this? How do you distribute your message?
(Lead them to the fact there are two key things: Inform- want people to be educated, also connect emotionally-buy in) All emotion, no substance-interest won’t be sustained because people won’t buy in.. All substance no emotion-people don’t care.
5. INFO TEXT: all the techniques you can use to distribute information. You need to be able to read and identify ways that people get their message across.
Three Goals: Identify techniques. Learn about the issue: Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women. Determine which methods of sharing information are most effective.
Students are in partners. Go to tables to fill out their sheets. Label top five most effective ways to convey information.
Come back: debrief. Also- jot down notes: what techniques would you use to distribute info about your chosen topic?
Hand out non-fiction definitions. Assign each student a term. They need to make a short poster with the definition (In their own words), an example and a picture to illustrate. Present if time.
Tuesday January 3
1. Sharing Circle- Pick an album cover that symbolically represents your Christmas break
2. Introduce project. Read article on other ways countries have approached reconciliation https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/national/how-other-countries-have-tried-to-reconcile-with-native-peoples/article24826144/
3. Look at the TRC
http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
4. Fill out initial reflection
5. Hand out non-fiction definitions. Assign each student a term. They need to make a short poster with the definition (In their own words), an example and a picture to illustrate. Present if time.
2. Introduce project. Read article on other ways countries have approached reconciliation https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/national/how-other-countries-have-tried-to-reconcile-with-native-peoples/article24826144/
3. Look at the TRC
http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
4. Fill out initial reflection
5. Hand out non-fiction definitions. Assign each student a term. They need to make a short poster with the definition (In their own words), an example and a picture to illustrate. Present if time.
Monday January 8
1. Sharing Circle
2. Second day to work on project
2. Second day to work on project
Tuesday January 9
1. Go non-fiction terms
2. Read “Second to Humans and Trying Harder”.
3. Answer questions as a class.
4. Read excerpt from Shake Hands with the Devil
5. Begin Highway of Tears
2. Read “Second to Humans and Trying Harder”.
3. Answer questions as a class.
4. Read excerpt from Shake Hands with the Devil
5. Begin Highway of Tears
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Wednesday January 10
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1. Finish Highway of Tears
2. Sharing Circle discussion
3. Begin MMIWG article analysis
2. Sharing Circle discussion
3. Begin MMIWG article analysis
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Thursday January 11
1. Work on MMIWG articles
Harvesting Trip
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1. Sage Harvesting field trip with Sienna
Friday January 12
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https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18pmlk (another documentary on the Highway of Tears)
1. Finish articles (if needed)
2. Share pieces of the Calls to action from the MMIWG Inquiry
3. Sharing Circle discussion
4. Freewrite: Are all humans equal? Reflect back to the Romeo Delaire quote and apply to what we have learned about MMIWG
5. Project
2. Share pieces of the Calls to action from the MMIWG Inquiry
3. Sharing Circle discussion
4. Freewrite: Are all humans equal? Reflect back to the Romeo Delaire quote and apply to what we have learned about MMIWG
5. Project
Tuesday January 16
Last Buddy Visit