Please take these attachments and use them to guide. There are others on the website for downiewenjack.ca and you can adapt and plan. The lessons are divided into four themes: Awareness, Acknowledgment,
Atonement, and Action. There is a lesson plan and accompanying powerpoint to teach the lesson along with websites and links that are still active.
https://dwf-dev.editmy.website/learning/secret-path-junior-high-lesson-plans
The final report has been delivered in 2015. Where are we today? This was a video used in one of the lesson plans for teaching using Gord Downie’s “The Secret Path” and it quite powerful. How much has changed in 6 years? It took 6 years for the commission to issue the 94 Calls To Action and now 6 years later, where are we? What a powerful piece of research for students.
https://gem.cbc.ca/media/the-secret-path/season-1/episode-1/38e815a-00b11deb591
THE SECRET PATH
If you have not heard the CBC animated film from Gord Downie that tells the true story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old boy who died while trying to escape from a residential school and travel back home.
This is a 60-minute documentary that was driven by his sisters Daisy and Pearl Wenjack to help them tell Chanie’s story. “Who would have thought the Tragically Hip”.
The story is of 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack who ran away from a residential school in 1966 to try and travel over 600 kilometres home by following the railway tracks. He had some matches with him. When he ran away it was October and he was found dead on the railway tracks. This is his story as told by his family and music supplied by Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip.