EF34 7pm May 31

 

 

 

Good evening, everybody.

We will get started at 7:00.

Cameras on. Mics muted until you are ready to talk.

 

 

Today’s agenda:

 

·      Begin sentence combining New item from Kamloops, BC

·      Test#1 paragraph

 

 

 

** REMINDER **

I will be away Tuesday and Thursday this week. I have meetings about adult education.

Tomorrow and Thursday, your teacher will be a substitute.

The zoom link will be the same.

 

 

 

Sad, disturbing, and distressing news over the weekend – mass grave found at an old Residential School in Kamloops, BC.

215 children’s bodies in a mass grave – First Nations kids

 

Residential Schools – government schools- paid for by the Canadian government, run by the Catholic and Anglican churches

First Nations kids – taken from their families and forced to go to these schools

1840s?- 1996. The last Residential School closed in 1996.

150,000 kids who were forced to go to these Residential schools

 

- not academic schools – taught to be workers, maids, labourers, physical work

- not allowed to speak their own languages (70 First Nations languages)

- only allowed to speak English or French

- little kids- 5,6,7 years old- stayed until graduation-16,17 years old

 

- many children were mistreated- starved, insufficient clothing, beaten, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, died

- many children suffered greatly – many died

- lots of trauma – hurt, injury

intergenerational trauma- grandparents-parent-child-grandchild

 

215 children’s bodies found- mass grave in Kamloops

-Searchers were searching the area using ground-penetrating radar.

They knew that there were mass graves.

 

All across Canada, people are very upset about this.

Vancouver Art Gallery -

 

When I went to school, I didn’t learn about Residential Schools. I learned about them when I was in my 20s.

It was a big secret. Nobody wanted to talk about it. The government didn’t want to talk about it. It wasn’t taught in schools.

Old story- the government of a country controls the education system.

e.g.    Canada- Residential Schools

          Japan – Nanking Massacre in China

          China – Tainamen Square Massacre

 

 

This kind of thing happens in other countries. It happened in Canada, too.

You have to know the good and the bad.

 

Now the secret is out and people have to talk about it and come to terms with it.

Some healing can take place.

 

I‘ll be teaching about First Nations people in a few weeks.

 

Some kind of government agency will investigate. There are a lot more mass graves to be found. There were Residential Schools all across Canada.

The closest one to us was St Paul’s Residential School in North Vancouver.

 

It happened because the government and the church wanted to get rid of First Nations culture. They wanted to destroy the languages, destroy the cultures, destroy the families.

 

If there is a problem, talk about it. Then you can heal the problem.

 

I’ll teach about this in a few weeks. It’s not all bad news. There is a lot of hope!!

 

 

 

Test#1- paragraph (100-150 words)

60m to write it. That is the deadline.

60 minutes is 60 minutes. It isn’t 65 minutes or 70 minutes.

1-2 minutes late I guess that’s ok.

5 minutes late – I won’t count it for marks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test#1

Email this to me as an attachment by 8:45.

Cameras on.

Choose one topic:

1. What three things do you want to accomplish this year?

2. What is one thing that you would like to change about yourself?