Friday, 29 September 2023

EF45 Class 19 First Nations

 

English Foundations 4/5

Our fourth week is finished!

 

Today’s agenda

·      First Nations lecture

·      IF TIME Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses

Quiz Wednesday or Thursday

·      Test#2- paragraph on basic topic (last 55m)

 

Monday- No school

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

 

Tuesday

·      Continue adverb clauses

Choose vocab for the quiz Wednesday or Thursday

·      Continue review of verb tenses- simple future

 

Wednesday

·      Quiz#3- adverb clauses

·      Continue review of verb tenses- simple future

 

 

 

make bread or pizza

make dough

knead the dough

let the dough rise

 

 

First Nations

 

Lecture notes for First Nations

 

·      Starting in May, 2021

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

·      more and more suspected unmarked graves discovered across Canada

·      1700 suspected graves found so far

-         used ground-penetrating radar

·      probably hundreds and hundreds, thousands more across Canada

 

·      Residential Schools- 150 000 kids went to residential schools

over 4000 kids died, maybe 6000

 

·      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 Christian churches (mainly Catholic and Anglican churches), paid for by the federal government

·      about 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 11 & 12

Very interesting area of study – good choice - First Peoples 11 and First Peoples 12

We offer these classes at South Hill – some students do both

-recognize by all postsec institutions

Times have changes- new recogniton of the importance of First Nations in this land

 

·      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

In high school

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

seemed normal

 

·      racist attitudes 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

 

old fashioned, racist word “red skin”

Sports team The Washington Red Skins

The Washington Commanders

hockey team on Vancouver Island Saanich Junior Braves

Victoria Admirals

 

 

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

-old word, outdated vocab Indian

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’ 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 - 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test#2 Paragraph#2

Write a paragraph of at least 150 words on the following topic.

Pen

Doublespace

Lined ruled paper

Phone and devices away

 

Remember the work on Goalsetting for this class we did last week.

Write about one of the goals that you chose for yourself.

 

Check your sentences before you pass your paragraph in.

 

 

Let’s learn some more of these words for adverb clauses.

time-                     after, before, since, until, when, whenever,

while

condition -          if, unless, even if

manner-               though/although/even though

cause-                   because, since

purpose-              in order to

 

* after, before- time

The kids did their homework after dinner. SIMPLE

The kids did their homework after SV dinner. COMPLEX- ADV CL

The kids did their homework after they finished/ate/had their dinner. COMPLEX- ADV CL

Maris went for a walk before school. SIMPLE

Maris went for a walk before she went to school. COMPLEX- ADV CL

 

*since – two meanings – reason ‘because’, time

since – reason

Maria has two dogs and two cats because/since she loves animals.

Since Maria loves animals so much, she has two dogs and two cats.

 

since- time

COMPLEX- ADV CL

Dora has played soccer since she was 10. COMPLEX- ADV CL

 

** GOOD POINT Present perfect verb tense goes well with ‘since’.

Mei has been very busy since she started classes at South Hill.  TIME

She has been happy since she got a new job.

 

present perfect verb tense– useful verb tense-  started in the past, goes until now

Jaswinder has lived in Vancouver since 1996. SIMPLE

Chrissy has been doing yoga since she was a teenager. persent perfect progressive

 

CONTINUE TOMORROW

 

 

 

“National Day for Truth and Reconciliation”

 

true(adj)/ truth(n)

 

truce  ‘th’

trufe

 

SAYING History repeats itself.

 

Phyllis- woman’s name

Philip / Phil- man’s name

 

mistreatment- being treated badly

The man mistreated his dog.

deal / dealing- manage(v)

It’s hard to deal with school, work, and kids.

 

She is dealing with the memories of her sad childhood.

get a deal- buy something, get a good price

He got a deal of his new phone. It was 20% off.

make a deal – come to an agreement

That’s a great deal!

 

establish- begin something like a school or a business

“EST 2005”

 

 

 

Tomorrow- Test#2

paragraph – at least 150 words

-doublespace

-pen

-lined, ruled paper

 

Grabber (optional)

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences

Concluding sentence

 

Topic: something about your goals that you set for yourself this week

“Goalsetting”

I’ll give you the exact topic tomorrow.

 

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