{"id":1,"date":"2019-01-10T05:34:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T05:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/?p=1"},"modified":"2019-01-10T00:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:41:57","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/2019\/01\/10\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"INTRODUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey folks and welcome to my blog! <\/span><\/p>\n

My name is Suzanne and I\u2019m a 4th year literature student at UBC. Today, I live, work and study on the traditional and unceded lands of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam), Skwxw\u00fa7mesh \u00daxwumixw (Squamish), and s\u0259l\u0313ilw\u0259ta\u0241\u026c (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. I\u2019m originally from Winnipeg which lies on the traditional territories<\/span>\u00a0of the\u00a0<\/span>M\u00e9tis, Anishinabewaki, and O\u010deti \u0160ak\u00f3wi\u014b (Sioux) peoples,\u00a0and I’m of mixed settler ancestry. I\u2019m writing this blog for my ENGL 470 class at UBC, which focuses on Canadian literary genres and includes the work of some important Indigenous authors such as Thomas King. For a number of reasons, I believe the content of this course will build on many of the most important themes of my personal education thus far.\u00a0<\/span>To explain why, here’s some info about me: <\/span><\/p>\n

Once I graduate I plan to enter a teaching program and one day teach literature in a high school setting. I\u2019m passionate about both reading and teaching books because of the works which changed my outlook growing up, not only allowing me to find happiness in my own life, but also opening my eyes to perspectives and experiences that were new to me. While I loved many of the books I was taught in high school, I feel that curriculums overwhelmingly over-represented the narratives of white\/straight\/cisgender\/able-bodied settlers and Europeans, failing to even closely match the diversity of my classrooms. It\u2019s my belief that Canadian classrooms should be inclusive to all students, supporting different learning styles, and teaching curriculums which create both mirrors and windows for students to see their own identities reflected in books, as well as learn new perspectives. Further, I believe teachers in Canada have a responsibility to actively work against the harmful and overproduced narratives which erase and distort Canada\u2019s past and present colonial realities. Though many movements of educational reform<\/a> exist today, I believe our school systems still have a long way to go, and I hope to be a part of that change. <\/span><\/p>\n

My goals for this class are: to continue the ongoing work of overhauling and decolonizing my own ideologies; to rethink narratives which have been overproduced in canonical Canadian literature; to reread and rethink works I\u2019ve encountered in the past; and to learn from some amazing works I\u2019m yet to read!<\/span><\/p>\n

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This image of BC is from Native-Land.ca<\/a>, a website I like because it\u00a0allows you to see the complex and overlapping territories of First Nations, M\u00e9tis, and Inuit peoples in North America. This website also provides advice on making meaningful land acknowledgements, and asks users to think critically about tools like this.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Work Cited<\/p>\n

Burns, Amy. “A Cross Canada Inventory: Evidence of 21st Century Educational Reform in Canada.”\u00a0Interchange<\/i>\u00a048.3 (2017): 283-92.\u00a0ProQuest.\u00a0<\/i>Web. 10 Jan. 2019.<\/p>\n

Marotta, Stefanie. \u201cDecolonizing Classrooms.\u201d\u00a0Emerging Indigenous Voices<\/i>, Ryerson School of Journalism, 2019, emergingindigenousvoices.ca\/project\/decolonizing-classrooms\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Native Land<\/span><\/i>, Mapster.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hey folks and welcome to my blog! My name is Suzanne and I\u2019m a 4th year literature student at UBC. Today, I live, work and study on the traditional and unceded lands of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam), Skwxw\u00fa7mesh \u00daxwumixw (Squamish), and s\u0259l\u0313ilw\u0259ta\u0241\u026c (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. I\u2019m originally from Winnipeg which lies on the traditional territories\u00a0of the\u00a0M\u00e9tis, Anishinabewaki, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/suzannecanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}