https://dl.dropbox.com/u/85207020/LAW-Types%20of%20Law%20feb%2028.ppt
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Genocide-video sheet
Residential Schools Web Workshop
Please use full sentences as you answer the questions below on a separate piece of paper.
Arrival at Residential Schools
Students watch Propaganda of Residential Schools
• What does/did the music suggest to you? • Describe what you see, eg. children’s behaviour
• Does this match the previous knowledge you had about Residential Schools?
• What do you think the intended message of the clip is?
One boy’s tale
View the first 4:40 min of Arthur Fourstar Part I.
What questions are raised in your mind after watching this short clip?
Why was he taken?
How old was he when he was taken?
Why was the RCMP involved?
Why does he use the word abducted?
Where was his father?
What does he mean by “that’s when the darkness began”?
Why did he have to stay there year round?
Sleeping Awake
Take a moment to allow the information they just received to sink in and ask
Yourself:
What images are you left with after watching the video?
What questions are you left with?
Now create a list of words to describe the emotions that were discussed or inferred
in the segment.
"You felt the separation from the culture, our homes and languages. When you went back home things
weren’t the same anymore. You were ashamed that you had once lived that way. The education that they
gave you was so that you could become a true real white person. Total assimilation was their goal so that
you no longer spoke your language. They wanted the children to be ashamed of their culture and their
origin. We definitely lost a lot." –
Where Are the Children, Impacts, www.wherearethechildren.ca/en/.../
impacts_video17_transcript.html
Survivor’s testimonies
In this clip, several survivors of Residential Schools recount how the schools affected their identities
and how that impact has been detrimental to Aboriginal people in general. Some of the focus revolves
around how survivors felt as if they were between two worlds, not fitting in to either the Aboriginal world
or the non-Aboriginal world.
Note: Shirley Cheechoo, in her interview, makes a statement; “when you only live with people
for six weeks of the year, would you tell them anything?” Teachers could use this as a jumping off point
to discuss the separation that existed and how that impacted the trust between children and parents.
Education today
Use a video clip from the 8th Fire video series www.cbc.ca/doczone/8thfire//2011/11/
whose-land-is-it-anyway.html counter marker 28:24–32:10.
The section briefly describes who Shannen Koostachin is and Shannen’s Dream. The clip highlights the struggle that the community of Attiwapiskat has with education, but also indicates that many more communities exist in similar situations with
respect to education.
Questions:
• What affect would the conditions of the school portables have on the children’s learning?
• What affect would the conditions have on the desire of students to go to school?
• How important are schools to communities?
• What role do politicians like Charlie Angus have to play? Why is this important?
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