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Good morning, everyone.
We’ll get started at 8:30.
Today’s agenda:
1. Modes of writing
2. First Nations
Wednesday – First Nations
- modes of writing
Thursday – final essay
- replacement quiz or test (for the people who contacted me) after essay submitted
Friday – I will be marking and putting final marks together
- email me at 9am to get your final mark
I will be leaving town for a week right after class, so if you email me after class time, I will not be able to respond.
Modes of Writing – different intentions when writing, different purposes for our writing
writing course – focus specifically on essay writing
support course for English – lower level “Writing 5,6,7”
colleges offer advanced writing classes- distance education- over $500 usually
In the future, you can use my blog as much as you want.
Please say “Hello” if you do.
Modes of Writing
1. Descriptive writing- describing look, taste, smell, touch, sound
appeal to the five senses- touch, taste, hearing, sight, smell
descriptive language- adjectives, descriptive words, modifers
rich vocabulary
Grandmother’s face –
hair- slate grey with violet highlights, straight, smooth
eyes- brown like chocolate milk, bright, olive-shaped
cheeks -wore too much rouge, brown, tough, sun-damaged, like ivory, creamy
mouth – smiling, talking, one tooth left
chin – pointed, weak chin, strong chin, mole, one hair 30cm long
Organize by SPACE
2. Narrative- tell a story, first person “I”
ESL topic “First Day in Canada”
“Your Happiest Day”
Organize by TIME
Storytelling podcasts, people tell interesting stories from their lives: The Moth, This Is Actually Happening (serious, intense stories), Jim Harold’s Campfire (ghost stories), The Confessional (stories that people regret), Let’s Not Meet (real scary stories)
3. Process – teach someone how to do something
“How to Throw Three-Pointers in Basketball”
“How to Bake a Pie”
step-by-step instruction
Organized by TIME
4. Compare and Contrast
compare – similarities
contrast – differences
“Compare or contrast Poh-poh’s relationship with the juggler and Meiying’s relationship with Kazuo.”
5. Argument or Persuasive
present your opinion so the reader can understand what you think and why you think it
They don’t have to agree with you, but you can at least make your ideas known clearly.
“Should high school courses be free for adults?”
US today “Should I vote for Biden or Trump?”
Tonight the results will be in.
There are others, but these are the most common.
First Nations – original people in a land
Aboriginal
Aboriginal peoples are under threat, in trouble, around the world, experience violence: Cuba, Australia, Finland, Canada, United States, Japan
Indigenous – Spanish “Los Indigenas”
Canada – First Nations 12,000-20,000 yrs
Australia- Aboriginals 60,000-80,000yrs
Their land and way of life is being taken away
Brazil – Amazon jungle – fires- some of the tribes have never been contacted
Archeology – studying ancient human structure, buildings, town, villages
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Focus of BC new curriculum- First Nations
Curriculum – what we study in school
First Nations ways of knowing, culture, history in Canada
My school experiences- none of the history, social studies, literature,
BC curriculum
-English 12
-First People’s English 12, Lisa is the teacher next term
• science focused on First Nations
The focus was on Europeans, settlers, White men in Canada
• male-centred, Euro-centred
• Government controls education and what kids learn
• What history did you study in school?
Words that people use –
- Native
-Aboriginal
(etymology- word history, ab – original word origin Latin ‘ab’ – beginning)
-First Nations – many groups, the ‘s’ is important
-Indian – not used now, older term
• Talk about origin of the word ‘Indian’ due to geographical misunderstanding
Cuba, - West Indies
Christopher Columbus 1492
“Red Indian” – don’t use that name anymore, racist term ‘redskin’
“East Indian” – don’t use that name anymore
• racism towards First Nations people “Indians”
• dismissive, belittling, negative
• when I was young, people talked badly about First Nations people
• lots of First Nations kids in my school, segregated
At the time, it seemed normal.
• Tell this story
• policy at my university – have to finish your degree in seven years
student/ professor –led initiative to change it to 10 yrs
• racism against First Nations – BCTF AGM story
700 teachers
“equity-seeking groups” wanted representation
• First Contact Canada
* http://aptn.ca/firstcontact/
First Contact of Europeans with First Nations
• First Nations -Who they are?
• Small groups
“What do you know about First Nations people in Canada?”
Generate ideas on LCD
• First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples constitute Indigenous peoples in Canada, also called First Peoples. First Nations came into common usage in the 1980s to replace the term Indians
• Aboriginal, Indigenous
• 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 a person of mixed Indigenous and European-American ancestry, 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’.
• 1600s Thousands of French men hunting, trapping beaver
The Hudson’s Bay Company, “The Bay”
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