More First Peoples Resources!

Hello again everyone,

Jeannette Armstrong is a a wonderful theorist and writer from the Okanagan people.  Included in my post is an amazing TED talk she did regarding “Indigenization”.  It’s a worthy watch!

NATHAN

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HELLLO!!!! Great First Peoples Resources.

http://digitalsqewlets.ca/sxwoxwiyam/mtcheam-eng.php

Hey everyone,

The link above is a site made by the sqewlets band near Chilliwack. Search through it to find lesson plans, videos, and rich cultural knowledge to share with students in your class!!

-NATHAN

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Indian Horse Unit

Hey team. Here’s my final presentation. All the texts in there are linked up. I also made this sample podcast on the theme of “awareness” as an example of the final creative project.

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Final Project: Finding Your Voice Text Set

Here is a link to the presentation. https://www.canva.com/design/DAC-kXJ1Rtw/view

 

There are some videos and websites linked to the pictures, and I’ve put them below for you to check out if you’d  like.

Trailer for “The Cleaners”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA1DxRdT2hA

Hong Kong Protest Article: http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-censors-in-china-keep-mainlanders-in-dark-about-hong-kong-protests-20140929-story.html

Rita Joe Song Project: https://nac-cna.ca/en/ritajoesong

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Aboriginal Women and Resilience Text Set

Hey everyone, here is a possible (and room to grow) text set based around The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway. I’ve included an additional resource #NotYourPrincess which looks amazing! I forgot I had brought it home for reading from our school library and found it in my bag only last night. Here’s a blurb from the publisher: It contains poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, intergenerational trauma, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women demanding change and realizing their dreams.

Final Project_ Text Set HERSTORY_ Zhaboonigan notyourprincess

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Final Project – The Man in the Black Suit (by Stephen King)

Hi everyone,

I have attached my final project to this post in case anyone wants to take a closer look at it.

Final_project

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Links to Twine and Sayonara

  1. The links to my Twine and Interactive Writing/ Reading resources:

Image result for twine

My Teaching Writing PLC Group’s assignment about online/offline writing tools. (including Twine, Quest, Google Docs, Microsoft OneNote and others)

My Teetering School Subway Game Twine. Interactive Text [IT]  (play if you dare!)

My analysis of teaching Teetering YA novel and the creating the Twine Teetering Subway IT story Assignment. [with a section using Analyse My Writing]

My lesson plan for teaching plot decisions using Twine (with Teetering)

J. Marshal Freeman’s YA novel Teetering (support queer authors!) homepage.

My own curriculum development page.

2. Sayonara (Bye for now)

I didn’t think I would be taking two courses after the year I had this year.  The reason I ended up staying in this class is because of all of you!  Teacher candidates, despite being at the end of your long, arduous journey: you showed incredible enthusiasm and social justice values in this class!  [As did the seven inservice educators coming off their year].

As I wind-down my Secondary profession a bit to continue on in Adult Education and moving more into the career in curriculum development, I have great hope and optimism for you in the future in our classrooms.

Now, having said that, I have been through the wringer with recent strikes and government downsizing.  Enough to have lost my stamina/health a bit.  I do NOT want the same to happen to you. We need to maintain the new momentum with new teachers to repair the still broken system. [We really need our TAs, Multicultural Workers, non-enrolling positions, and Special Programs back! VSB needs to hire MORE TOCs] 

So, please feel free to use my BCTF union and FISA (independent school) experience, as well as my curriculum development ideas [with credit of course ;)] to guide you in your new/current/mid career education ideas.

Finally.  Happy PRIDE Vancouver!

Email: scoderre@tuppermedia.org

 

 

 

 

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A resource for Grimm Fairy Tales.

Considering the talks of fairy tales that have popped up from time to time, I find it interesting that any mention of them has fallen back to mainly Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. So, to better expand everyone’s library of fairy tales, here is a collection of some Grimm Fairy Tales. I recommend Godfather Death as a read.

https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html

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Trauma Text Circle Activity Reflection

This is from earlier this week, but I just wanted to share my thoughts on/responses to the trauma literature “station” activity. The text that impacted me was the one that details a factory worker during the Holocaust who is forced to sexually please the German overseer/commander.

I was actually very uncomfortable at the end of the activity and things did not sit right with me. I don’t think it was anyone’s fault except my own, because I have a high degree of empathy so I placed myself in the protagonist’s shoes. Even though I do not have a shared experience or trauma outlined in the excerpt, it just hit me like a truck. It was just unbelievably tragic to see the phrasing which described the scene of trauma: “He learned to be flexible as to [better please his master].” It was almost as if the protagonist was so desensitized to the act of abuse and sexual violence that he almost detached himself to it, almost working and endeavouring to become “better” at it to survive and/or win favours from the commander.

I talked to Amber after the session and she was super comforting and kept apologizing even though it wasn’t her fault that I was feeling that way. I really appreciated her concern and care that she provided before, during and after the activity. I appreciated doing it in groups so that we didn’t have to go through it alone, and that the necessary levels of cushioning and care was always there just in case.

Doing this activity and working with trauma texts definitely helped me to see how students can react to or engage with difficult texts. I didn’t have a similar experience yet the text still hit me hard, and I couldn’t help but imagine how difficult it would be for a student who have a related traumatic experience. Because I learn in an experiential way, because I have had this experience, I feel confident that I would be more equipped to utilizing and teaching these texts and also better understanding and accommodating to my students in the future. Thank you Amber for preparing this activity and to my “station group” members for accompanying me!

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TTOC Panic Resource Guide, Submission Form

Hi Everyone,

I made a Google Form if you’re interested in “formally” submitting a TOC resource! I would be super appreciative if you provided any activities towards it. I intend on sharing it on the blog and with other TOCs at the end of next week.

Additionally, if you want a copy of the Resource Guide, you can comment on this post (I’ll automatically get an email).

Thanks in advance!

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