Lesson 63

 

We did a review of the last chapter -  then read "The Way it All Changed."

Students had the remainder of the block to continue note work. 

Lesson 62

 We opened the class with answering a couple of student questions. We then reviewed "The Potential of Change" and read "The Other Indians."

Students had a full 30 minutes to continue their not work - many are doing an excellent job of digging deeper into the text - thinking about themes - connecting indirect characterization to themes/other parts of the text.

No homework.

 

 

Lesson 61

 

We opened the class by answering a couple of student questions, looking at a follow-up from Grassy narrows, watching a piece on "Grandmother Moon" from a Canadian astronaut, and briefly talking about this article. 

We connected these various pieces to the text itself, before doing a chapter review, and reading to the end of page 117.

Students had the remainder of the class to work on their notes.

*Note: Unless specifically assigned, none of the posted articles are required reading. If students feel they are too heavy, they are free to forgo reading them.  

 

Lesson 60

 

 We opened the class with a couple of questions, and a brief look at this article, and history of mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows.

We watched a video of Dimaline talking with Shelagh Rogers.

We watched another video of Dimaline talking with Jully Black for Canada reads.

We talked through some key quotes for the last chapter, then we read "Miigwans' Coming-To Story."

Students will have some time at the start of our next class to continue their character notes.

Students should be thinking about key themes - big ideas seen throughout the novel, and represented differently in the stories of each character. Many of these big ideas were present in the interviews we looked at today. 

 

Lesson 59

 

 We opened the class with talking about a piece on AI, written by Claude (AI)  - We had a discussion about the value of sitting in thought - thinking things through - getting stuck. Students had a lot to say about their process, and where they start when they don't "get" something.  

We answered a couple of class questions, and talked about the terms syncretism and xenophobia.

We touched a bit on the past chapter and then carried on through "Back into the Woods." 

Students had some time to work on their character notes - they got into larger groups to discuss the quotes they'd chosen (What do the quotes say about the character?  Direct or Indirect characterization?)

No new homework.