EF56 39class- moon, First Nations

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

Today’s agenda

·      First Nations

·      MOVED FROM YESTERDAY Optional replacement test for those who signed up (Final 55m of class)

 

 

Thursday

·      Sentence type exercises Sentence combining – Your examples from homework “Sentence Combining 1” “Sentence Combining 2”

Try a few. Send them to me. We can share them tomorrow.

·      Begin review

 

 

Friday (Final day)

·      Finish Review, if necessary

·      Final marks- one-on-one meetings if you want

 

 

Chinese - lunar new year

lunar- (Fr)lun (Sp) luna – moon

lunar calendar – based on the cycles of the moon

 

solar calendar- based on the sun

Gregorian calendar – Pope Gregory

The Earth goes around the sun every 365 ~¼ days.

Every four years we have a Leap Year- add February 29^th.

 

Lunar calendar does not match up with the Western calendar.

*lunar – full moon – symbol of fear and insanity in the West, associated with monsters, vampires, werewolf, witches

all negative symbols

lunatic (a moon person) -  a person who is crazed, insane

 

Chinese culture – full moon – symbol of completion, peace, family together, warm, Mid-Autumn Festival

 

emotions, deep feelings

associated with women, feminity

moon is female

sun is male

 

Spanish and French – gendered nouns

pen- el lapizero -el- masculine

chair- la silla- la - feminine

 

sun - el sol –- masculine

moon la luna- feminine

 

In Western culture the moon is feminine. It is assoiated with evil and insanity. very negative

In Western culture the sun is masculine. It is assoiated with health, strength, and warmth. very positive

- inherent sexism

 

wizard – man who can do magic- positive

witch – woman who can do magic

 

Look for symbolism in movies, books, poems. Look for the gender of symbolism. Is it negative or positive?

 

witch flies on a broom – broom is domestic object, cat is a feminine animal

Li Bai- missing hometown, nostalgia, sadness/sweet feeling

 

 

Lecture notes for First Nations

 

 

·      Scientists- science-

-anthropology – study of ancient people

Museum of Anthropology- UBC – focus on First Nations

 

-archeology- study of ancient humans, ancient civilations

Archeological theories about origins of First Nations

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

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

 

-many different types of hominids in the past

e.g Neanderthal, CroMagnon, Austrolpithicus, etc.

 

·      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

 

 

REPLACEMENT TEST for the people who signed up for it.

150-200 words

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