Lesson 45

After a gallery walk and self-assessment, students handed in their TADR projects.

Students were introduced to their upcoming novel, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline 

We talked about a few student questions, before talking about the following questions:

• How closely connected are you to the fight against climate change?
• What changes can you imagine for Canada in the next 100 years (what is "for sure" and what are possibilities?)

We talked about the setting of the story, what bone marrow is, and the following quote from William S. Burroughs that Dimaline uses in her text: 

        "The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of theIndians: Killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits." 

Anyone who feels they would benefit immensely from having their own copy of the text to use at home should pick one up from a library, or purchase a copy.