EF67 Class 19 What Happened During the Ice Storm First Nations

 

EF67

Good afternoon, everyone.

Our fourth week is finished!

 

Today’s agenda

·      Finish “What Happened During the Ice Storm”

·      Orange Shirt Day “Day of Truth and Reconciliation”

·      Lecture on First Nations

·      Begin complex sentences- noun clauses

 

Monday- no school

“National Day for Truth and Reconciliation”

 

Tuesday

·      Test#2 – paragraph about “Ice Storm”

·      Finish lecture on First Nations

·      Continue complex sentences- noun clauses

 

 

 

“What Happened During the Ice Storm” Thought Questions

1.    What is the setting of the story?

setting- time and place

also culture, psychology, religion

milieu- overall situation

 

-cold, winter

-farm, rural

 

urban- city

suburban-

rural-countryside

 

-village -suggests more than just one family “people said”

-northern place- freezing rain

-writer in American- guess that it’s US

 

psychology of characters- contrast – farmers, adults and the boys, children, younger teens

boys unable/reluctant to harvest the pheasant- inexperienced, unsure, uncertain what to do,

-unprepared for the task- no tools- no clubs, no sacks

 

-contrast- how they deal with the birds

- adults- “harvest” kill- used to killing livestock and game animals

- boys save, protect, “covered

- gentle , kind

- new experience, daunting- challenging, a little bit scary

- faced with the reality of killing the birds, cruelty, harsh,

- emotionally difficult to kill a living creature, not prepared

 

2.    The word ‘But’ in the third sentence causes the mood of the story to change. How is this a pivot point in the story?

e.g. When she came to Canada, she had to pivot in her choice of career.

 

3.    Why do the boys go out in the storm?

-find, harvest

-following their dads, parents

-wanting to help, act like the grownups

 

4.    What does “harvest the pheasants” (paragraph 2) mean?

-kill, clean, prepare for cooking or freezing

-process the birds to use later

- trade, barter

 

-EUPHEMISM “harvest”

-harvest – crops, plants e.g. rice, potato, tomato, corn, pumpkin

-herb garden, vegetable garden, flower garden

Community Gardens – all over Vancouver

container garden – grow in big pots

 

5.    What are four comparisons the writer creates between the birds and the boys in the third paragraph?

-pheasant- eyes frozen shut- very vulnerable, totally helpless, need protection

 

-conparison established a feeling of empathy between the boys and the pheasants

empathy, sympathy- similar but slightly different meanings

 

 

6.    What is the simile comparing the grass seeds, the pheasants, and the boys?

simile- comparison between two things using the words ‘like’ or ‘as;

e.g. He is as tall as a tree.

She is as smart as a whip.  pun on the word ‘whip’   synonyms hurt-smart

My fingers smarts. new vocab

smart- brainy intelligent

pun -funny based on a word having two meanings

 

similes and metaphors – used in poetry

e.g. Romeo and Juliet- uses imagery of the sun, btight light

symbolism

simile- comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’

metaphor- direct comparison

 

yolk and white- eggs

egg- new life, new birth

seeds

 

7.    What is the climax of the story?

climax – the high point of a story, the most exciting point of a story or movie

 

8.    Why do the boys act in the manner they do?

-         keep the pheasants

-         want to save the birds

-         feel sympathy, empathy

-         kind, compassionate

-         sacrifice their own comfort for the birds’ survival

 

9.    What is the resolution (denouement) of the story?

-“slippery fields” “unsure of their footing”

-“blurry lights”

 

 

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

·      fear 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 English 12 and FP12

-recognize by all postsecondary institutions

 

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

 

Big contrast

·      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 Peoples -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 football  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. Native

-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’

 

·      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

 

-CONTINUE TUESDAY-