The culminating activity for this curriculum document works through the annual Chernos contest through the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Students are to choose the option that they would like ...
Learning Goal: Thinking about what matters and advocating for change.
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• How can I be the change I wish to see in the world and live by the way o ... |
Learning Goal: Reflecting on learning and planning for culminating activity.
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• Students will gather in circle and recap what has resonated or l ... |
Learning goal: Return to the afterword for a final understanding of crookedness.
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Teacher will read aloud the afterword for Scratching River. ... |
Learning goal: To look at water as a holder of memory and understand how Crooked Tunes are designed.
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Begin with the verse/meditation that the ... |
Learning goal: To consider what is “crooked” about the text and how the text connects to nature.
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Start with a quote from the book, “rivers are a ... |
Learning goal: To understand water as a metaphor and the concept of river morphology.
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Consider and journal on the following questions: |
Learning goal: To understand the use of repetition and redaction in the text.
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“Children begin by finding a tune on the fiddle, a tune that’s b ... |
Learning goal: To understand who the Métis are.
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“The Métis diaspora, we are a braided river channel . . . . they wanted us to recede, to dry up ... |