Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Talk about First Nations
“National Day for Truth and Reconciliation”
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Begin new kind of sentence- complex sentence
Adverb clauses
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Dialogue “Going Shopping”
Tuesday
No school
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Wednesday
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Continue complex sentences - adverb clauses
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Begin past progressive verb tense
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Begin descriptive paragraph
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Continue dialogue “Going Shopping”
Thursday
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Continue descriptive paragraph-pictures
Test Monday probably
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“National Day for Truth and Reconciliation”
Warm-Up Questions
1. slogan
“Every Child Matters”
orange shirt
protecting every child
what children – Indigenous children
Residential schools
commemorate(v)- remember in a
respectful way
mem- memory, remember , memorize
2. Residential
schools-
3. Canada
is a mosaic.
mosaic- a picture made from many small
pieces of different colour tiles
Canada is a mosaic. different cultures, languages,
religions, traditions living together peacefully
a multi-cultural society
freedom- freedom of religion, speech, belief,
self-expression
take the children away- break culture, forget
the languages, forget the traditions
Vocabulary
1. reconciliation(n)
reconcile(v) – make peace after a fight, forgive, come back together, at peace
The husband and wife reconciled
after an argument.
-find a way to live together
2. commemorate-
to remember in a respectful way
My wife commemorates her grandmother every year.
They bring food and burn paper money.
paper iphone, paper house, paper car
3. residential
school-
run(v)- manage
She runs the business.
government-funded- paid for by taxes
SHEC is a government-funded adult
high school.
reservations- areas of land where
First Nations were forced to live.
Many First Nations groups were
nomadic. They would live in different through the year.
4. fund(v)
She funds her college by working part-time.
5. assimilate(v)-
to make someone the same as everybody else
Canada is a multi-cultural
country. You have to assimilate a little bit to fit into Canadian society. -language, dress, food,
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new freedoms, new rights
freedom of speech, freedom of religion,
freedom of belief,
freedom of association,
gender-equality, LGBTQ+
neuro-diversity- autistic, mentally-challenged
The autistic man/woman did a lot of work to learn to
assimilate into society.
6. dominant(adj)
–
7. abusive(adj)
abuse(n,v)
8. possession(n) Take care of your possessions.
9. trauma(n)
– difficult experience that stays with you mentally
VOCAB long-lasting- lasts a long time
Her childhood trauma affected her for many
years.
He deals with his trauma by going to
therapy.
10.
awareness(n)- knowledge of an issue
Reading
Let’s take turns reading it out loud. We can talk about
vocab and pronunciation.
1.national- the whole country, across
Canada
provincial
municipal- just the city
September 30 thirtieth
150000
1-one
10-ten
100-one hundred
1000-one thousand
10000- ten thousand
10000 wan-Mandarin
1000000 one million
115000 one hundred fifteen
thousand
150000 one hundred fifty
thousand
15 50
fifteen fifty
14 40
16 60
17 70
18 80
19 90 My grandmother
is 90. ninety
130 one hundred
thirty OR a hundred and thirty
“take the Indian out of the child” – break the cultures,
break the traditions and languages
3.
5. survivors – people who had a really difficult
but are still alive
She is a cancer survivor. She wears a pink
ribbon. ?
Don’t worry about me. I’m tough. I’m a
survivor.
VOCAB tough(adj) strong, resilient, don’t quit
Orange Shirt Day first began in 2013.
First Nations people have been telling government for
generations about missing children. Some First Nations groups searched old Residential
Schools using ground-penetrating radar. They found hundreds and then thousands
of possible grave sites.
archeology- the science keeps developing
pottery, bones, mummies, etc.
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UPDATE ON TIMELINE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/science/skull-denisovans-dragon-man-human-evolution
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“Going Shopping”
Let’s get into buzz groups of 4-5 people.
Discuss “Warm-Up Questions” and “Vocabulary Preview”
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