Truth and Reconciliation Day is this Friday, September 30th. It serves as an important reminder of the identification of unmarked burials at Indian Residential school sites. Residential schools operated across Canada between the 1870s through until the last school closed in 1996. These schools were created to take children away from their families and strip them of their language, community and their culture. Over 150,000 children were removed from their homes and families and many did not make it back home. In honour of this day it is important that we never forget and that we continue the healing process by sharing what happened to so many children and families. Here are some resources that I came across for class discussions and knowledge. You may want to add some of these books to your class library on Residential Schools and Genocide and they are suggested by grade:
Kindergarten When We Were Alone by David Alexander Robertson (2016)
Grade 1 Nanabosho and the Butterflies by Joe and McLellan and Matrine Therriault (2015)
Grade 2 When 1 Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margret Pokiak-Fenton (2013)
Grade 3 Not My Girk by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margret Pokiak-Fenton (2014)
Grade 4 Kookum's Red Shoes by Peter Eyvindson (2015)
Grade 5 As Long as the Rivers Flow: A Last Summer Before Residential School by Constance Brissenden and Larry Oskiniko Loyie (2005)
Grade 6 Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton (2010)
Grade 7 My Name is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling (2004)
Grade 8 Goodbye Buffalo Bay by Constance Brissenden and Larry Loyie (2016)
Grade 9 Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story by David Alexander Robertson (2012)
Grade 10 Ends/Begins by David Alexander Robertson (2010)
Grade 11 Secret Path by Gord Downie (2016)
Grade 12 God and the Idian: A Play by Drew Hayden Taylor (2014)
There are many activities and discussions that can come from these books. I had a closer look at the suggested book for Grade 2 called Nanabosho and the Butterflies and thought I would give you all an example of an activity that can be done in class in the link below.
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