EF56 40 class- First Nations, comma splices

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

Al Haley ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

Class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

Today’s agenda

·      Deadline for replacement test is today at 1

·      First Nations module

·      Begin five-paragraph essay

·      Comma splices

·      Leftover exercises

 

Wednesday

·      First Nations module

·      Begin five-paragraph essay

·      Comma splices

·      Leftover exercises

 

Thursday

·      Five-paragraph essay

·      First Nations module

·      Review

·      Replacement test (optional)

 

Friday (final day)- not a teaching day, one-on-one consultation

·      Marks day

·      Final reports- one-on-one if you wish- unofficial final report- average, spoken comments

 

 

 

First Nations

 

Lecture notes for First Nations

 

·      Starting in May, 2021

·      Unmarked graves of First Nations have been found on the grounds of old Residential Schools, 315? in Kamloops

·      more and more unmarked graves discovered across Canada

·      over 4000 so far, probably hundreds and hundreds, thousands more across Canada

·      Residential Schools all across Canada

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools-in-canada-interactive-map

·      Organized by the Canadian government, run by the churches, paid for by the federal government

·      150 000 First Nations kids were forcibly taken away from their families to Residential Schools from 1860s to 1990s.

 

Revelations- big ugly secrets-

·      Focus of BC new curriculum- First Nations

First Nations ways of knowing, culture, history in Canada

e.g. First Peoples English 12

Very interesting area of study – good choice - First Peoples 10 and First Peoples 12

We offer these classes at South Hill – some students do both i.e. English 10 and First Peoples 10, English 12 and First Peoples English 12

 

·      My school experiences- none of the history, social studies, was about First Nations

The focus was history class was on Europeans, settlers, White men in Canada

male-centred, Euro-centred

 

·      lots of First Nations kids in my school, segregated,

seemed normal

 

·      racism towards First Nations people “Indians”

dismissive, belittling, negative stereotypes

 

** Maybe tell these stories

·      policy at my university – have to finish your degree in seven years

students/ professors –led initiative to change it to 10 yrs

 

·      racism against First Nations – BCTF AGM story

700 teachers

“equity-seeking groups” wanted representation

 

Overview - introduction

·      First Nations -Who they are?

·      Small groups

“What do you know about First Nations people in Canada?”

Generate ideas on LCD

 

1. First Nations

2. Inuit

3. Métis

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

 

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

 

·      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 - a person of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry

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

Fr- do not pronounce the ‘s’   may-tee

 

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’.

 

CONTINUE TOMORROW

 

 

 

Comma splices:

COMMON ERROR

 

I completed my essay, I have not submitted it.

I completed my essay.I have not submitted it. 2 main clauses, 2 simple sentences

I completed my essay. I have not submitted it. COMBINE

sentence combining – coordination and subordination

SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX

 

I completed my essay, I have not submitted it. XXX

comma not strong enough

FIXES

SIMPLE

I completed my essay. I have not submitted it.

COMPOUND

I completed my essay, but I have not submitted it.

I completed my essay; I have not submitted it.

I completed my essay; however, I have not submitted yet.

COMPLEX

I completed my essay although I have not submitted it. ADV

I have not submitted my essay although I have completed it. ADV

Although I have completed my essay, I have not submitted it.

Although I have not submittedmy essay, I have completed it.

 

I completed my essay which I have not submitted yet. ADJ

 

 

WHAT IS THE MAIN CLAUSE? WHERE IS THE FOCUS? WHERE IS THE SPOTLIGHT?

I completed my essay although I have not submitted it.

I have not submitted my essay although I have completed it.

Although I have completed my essay, I have not submitted it.

Although I have not submitted my essay, I have completed it.

 

 

CORRECTION CODES

RO run-on sentence

CS comma splice

This is all one sentence.

Divide this up into sentences.

 

Chop it up into simple, compound, and complex.

 

astronomical(adj)- huge numbers

astronomy- millions of stars, millions of miles