Monday, 29 September 2025

EF45 Class 20

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Talk about First Nations

“National Day for Truth and Reconciliation”

·      Begin new kind of sentence- complex sentence

Adverb clauses

·      Dialogue “Going Shopping”

 

Tuesday

No school

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

 

Wednesday

·      Continue complex sentences - adverb clauses

·      Begin past progressive verb tense

·      Begin descriptive paragraph

·      Continue dialogue “Going Shopping”

 

Thursday

·      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,

-         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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