Friday, 26 September 2025

EF23 Class 19

 

Registration for November quarter begins October 14

We will meet one-on-one on week before to discuss you should take next term.

Recommendation based on quizzes, tests, and spoken.

 

Today’s agenda

·      Attendance

·      Take out PLOs

Refer to PLOs when doing “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 4

·      Review three simple verb tenses: simple present, simple past, simple future

“Verb Tense Review 1”

·      Talk about First Nations Peoples

·      National Day for Truth and Reconciliation- First Nations Peoples

 

Monday

·      Return Quiz3

Go over

Optional RW for a bonus point

·      Begin complex sentences- last kind of sentence

- adverb clauses- because if when since

·      Begin new verb tense- present progressive/present continuous

e.g. She is walking down the sidewalk.

·      Talk about First Nations Peoples

 

Tuesday

NO SCHOOL

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation- First Nations Peoples

Wear your orange t-shirt

 

Wednesday

·      Continue complex sentences- last kind of sentence

- adverb clauses- because if when since

          Quiz 4 Friday?

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BEGIN NEXT WEEK Begin paragraph writing -short paragraphs

 

 

 

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Take out PLOs

Refer directly to the PLOs when doing “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 4.

 

Look over the PLOs.

Choose one or two to focus on for GOALS for next week.

ORAL spoken

READING

WRITING

THINKING

 

This was challenging. Good work.

Let’s do the “Verb Tense Review 1” in a few minutes.

 

Exercise 1

1.    jumped- simple past

2.    will sing- simple future

VOCAB choir- a singing group, maybe in a church

The children’s choir sang beautiful songs.

3.    runs- simple present

ran- simple past  She always did it in the past.

VOCAB track- a big oval for running

cross-country running through the forest or on roads

4.    will leave / are going to leave= simple future

5.    sits- simple present

sat – simple past

When she was a kid, she swam every day.

She swims every day.

He is sitting behind me right now.

She usually sits beside Javiera. Today she is sitting beside Mona.

 

NEXT WEEK present progressive/present continuous- ing

She is talking on the phone right now.

 

She will talk to her sister tonight. simple future

She is going to talk to her sister tonight. simple future

Both are ok. I would use both.

 

HIGHER LEVEL

Maybe I will talk to her later. not quite decided

Maybe I am going to talk to her later.

 

6.    talked – simple past

 

Exercise 2

1.    will not go   won’t go   ‘ apostrophe

2.    studies   doesn’t study   does not study

3.    didn’t hit   did not hit

VOCAB swerve(v)- turn the steering wheel quickly

VOCAB slide   Her car slid on the ice.

          slip   She slipped on the ice.

4.    don’t wash   do not wash   simple present

5.    didn’t win   did not win

6.    won’t finish   will not finish   is not going to finish   isn’t going to finish

You have a lot of choices for simple future in the negative.

 

I won’t stay in the house. I will not go shopping. I am not going to work in my garden. I’m not going to go to a restaurant.

I am not going to go to dimsum.

VOCAB dimsum- Cantonese style brunch

Dimsum is family-style eating.

Maybe we can have a pot-luck.

 

SIMPLE PRESENT, SIMPLE PAST and SIMPLE FUTURE

and negatives

 

Good job!

 

Tuesday- National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

First Nations Peoples

How Indigenoous People have not been treated well in Canada.

 

Overview - introduction

·      First Peoples -Who they are?

 

Three groups of people constitute Indigenous Peoples in Canada, also called First Peoples. Also called Aboriginal. Native

 

-old word, outdated vocab Indian

 

Three groups:

1. First Nations -people in the south of Canada

2. Inuit Eskimo – people in the north of Canada

3. Métis – ‘mixed’ people who are First Nations and European ancestry

 

First Nations came into common usage in the 1980s to replace the term ‘Indians’

·      Talk about origin of the word ‘Indian’ due to geographical misunderstanding, West Indies

 

 

·      First Nations- Indigenous people in the South (below Arctic Circle). Half of all First Nations bands are in Ontario and BC.

·      Inuit are the Indigenous people who live in the North. Used to be called ‘Eskimo’- disparaging term from French Esquimaux, from Montagnais ayas̆kimew ‘person who laces a snowshoe’. Montagnais, or Innu, are the Indigenous inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which comprises most of the northeastern portion of the present-day province of Quebec and some eastern portions of Labrador.

Discredited etymology ‘raw fish eater’

Website: https://www.itk.ca/about-canadian-inuit/#nunangat

Show map: “Inuit Map”

Metis - French- do not pronounce the ‘s’   may-tee

-a person of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry

1600s and 1700s - Fur trading European men came to hunt animals, like beavers

In particular one of a group of such people who in the 19th century constituted the so-called Metis nation in the areas around the Red and Saskatchewan rivers. Metis comes from the French word ‘métis’, which means ‘mixed’.

·      The three groups: First Nations/ Inuit/ Metis

 

 

·      Where did these people come from?

·      First Nations creation myths/ creation stories

Every culture has a creation myth/story – legend, fiction, story, explains real life, explains natural phenomena

Greek Myth- e.g. Echo-magical creature- nymph, Narcissus- narcissist- a person who is self-absorbed

 

Every group has a creation story/myth

Bible- Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve

Koran- Quran - simlar story

 

Different First Nations groups have different creation stories.

·      Read “The Beginning of the Haidi Gwaii World” on LCD

·      Talk about Raven

- prominent role in the mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, including the Tsimishians, Haidas, Heiltsuks, Tlingits, Kwakwaka'wakw, Coast Salish, Koyukons, and Inuit. The raven in these indigenous peoples' mythology is the Creator of the world, but it is also considered a trickster god.

-two different raven characters:

-the creator raven, responsible for bringing the world into being and who is sometimes considered to be the individual who brought light to the darkness

-the childish raven, always selfish, sly, conniving, and hungry

 

The Beginning of the Haida Gwaii World

 

In the beginning, before the creation of the world, the earth was completely covered by a vast ocean and the sky was all grey clouds. The cloud kingdom was ruled by the great Sha-lana. Sha-lana's Chief servant was Raven.

One day Raven enraged his master and was cast out into the ocean world. He flew over the ocean for a long period of time until he became weary. Unable to find a place to rest, Raven became angry. He began to beat his wings upon the water until the water rose up and touched the clouds around him.

When the water receded back into the ocean there appeared rocks upon which Raven rested. These rocks grew and stretched across the ocean. The rocks turned into sand and after a short period of time trees began to grow on the sand. After many moons the sand had turned into beautiful islands, which we know today as the Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands).

Raven enjoyed his kingdom, yet he became bored and lonely. He decided he needed someone to help him. So one day he gathered two large piles of clam shells upon the beach and transformed them into two human females. These two women complained saying that they should not have both been created as women. So to make them happy Raven threw limpet shells at one and turned her into a man, creating the Haida Gwaii people."

 

Clark, E., Indian Legends of Canada, McClelland and Stewart: Toronto, 1991.

https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/exhibits/bc-archives-time-machine/galler07/frames/oralhist.htm

 

 

·      Show pictures “Raven1” “Raven2” “Raven and the First Men”

“Spirit of Haida Gwaii” YVR (Vancouver Airport), other pictures jewelry

Haida Gwaii- Queen Charlotte Islands

 

·      Different First Nations have different stories-

e.g.Micmac, Mi'kmaq, Glooscap

 

**about 630 different First Nations in Canada- all different stories

 

 

Three different group of First Peoples in Canada:

1.First Nations- live in the south of Canada

2.Metis- mixed European and First Nations

3.Inuit- live in the far north

 

 

European people came to this land to trade furs in the 1500s

beaver fur

The Hudson’s Bay Company- main business in Canada at the time, before Canada was a country

modern day- The Bay- department store

-now it is gone

Canada became a country in 1867.

The first Prime Minister of Canada was John A. MacDonald.

People speak French mostly in Quebec.

Everywhere else, they mostly speak English.

Canada is officially a bilingual country.

 

Some Quebecers want to split from Canada and become a separate country.

Quebec licence plate: Je me souviens, I remember

 

 

 

·      Scientists- science-

anthropologists -anthropology – study of ancient people

Museum of Anthropology- UBC – focus on First Nations

 

-archeology- study of ancient humans, ancient civilizations

 

First Nations – oral tradition, all spoken, no writing system, all storytelling

-transmitting culture and survival skills- plants, herbs, hunting, fishing, travelling, seasons

-special people who would be the keepers of knowledge

 

 

archeologists use First Nations stories to understand their past

 

Archeological theories about origins of First Nations

archeologists- scientists who study the history of human societies

Terra Cotta warriors

ancient Egypt pyramids- River Nile, River Styx

 

These are rough dates. Scientific knowledge is developing all the time.

- no written records, oral tradition, information passed along though telling stories

-based on artifacts found: tools, firepits, bones, footprints

-many different types of hominids in the past

e.g Australpithicus, CroMagnon, Neanderthal, etc.

Evolution-

 

Migration of human beings from Africa

·      200 000 years ago, Homo Sapiens in Africa

·      60 000 years ago, humans leave Africa

50 000 years ago reach Australia

·      Second wave

35 000 years ago reach Middle East and Central Asia

·      40 000 years ago into Europe

·      25 000 years ago- Ice Age, ice bridge between Russia and Alaska

·      15 000 years ago humans cross The Bering Strait into North America

 

 

 

 

Quiz3

1. SIMPLE  SV      job

2. SIMPLE SSV    slowly        

3. SIMPLE SVV   every day

4. COMPOUND but      fast   

5. COMPOUND and     friendly

6. COMPOUND so        game

 

 

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