Week 1 Lesson 2: Reconciliation March 9/21

Teacher Ana Ferzacca Grade Level 5/6

Subject Language Arts Unit Reconciliation

Time 10:30-12:00 Overarching What has Canada

Question done so far in the
process of
reconciliation?

Description and Rationale

This lesson will look at the timeline of reconciliation in Canada up until 2008. Students will
then do their own research on what has happened since then.

GLOs General Outcome 1: Explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experience

1.1 Discover and Explore

SLOs Extend understanding:

Search for further ideas and information from others and from oral, print and
other media texts to extend understanding.

Learning Students will be able to develop an understanding of what steps Canada has
Objectives taken towards reconciliation

Learning Objectives Driving Questions

1. ● When did Canada start the process of

reconciliation?
● Is the progress that is being made a
step in the right direction?

Pre-Lesson Preparation

Material/Equipment/Resources Teacher Tasks

● Scholastic book page 4-5 ● Put together a list of resources for

● Laptops
● https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/a-tim
eline-of-residential-schools-the-truth-a
nd-reconciliation-commission-1.72443
4
● Powerpoint to go along with timeline
events since 2008.
● Make a research notes template
● Make powerpoint that goes with the
timeline from the scholastic resource
Body Time(mins)

Activity 1 Go over timeline as a class with the powerpoint 20

Activity 2 Ask students if they know anything else that has been done since 10
2008 - anything in their lifetime?
What else should we be doing?
Then go over second part of powerpoint

Activity 3 Students will pick one event from the list and do more 30
independent research on it.
Pull group of students who want some help and read articles with
them
End of funding for the AHF:
● https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/funding-for-aborigin
al-healing-foundation-to-end-1.895229
● http://www.ahf.ca/downloads/20100305-media-advisory.pdf
First event for the TRC:
● https://www.kairoscanada.org/the-first-national-event-of-th
e-truth-and-reconciliation-commission
● https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/truth-and-reconciliation-event-
draws-thousands-of-people-1.523114
Canada joins UN declaration on the rights of Indigenous people:
● https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2020/1
2/government-of-canada-introduces-legislation-respecting-
the-united-nations-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-
peoples.html
● https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/declaration/index.html
● https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/canada-adopting-impl
ementing-un-rights-declaration-1.3575272

Activity 4 Journal entry 2: write a paragraph about the event that you 30
researched. Was this event a step forward in the reconciliation
process? Why or why not?

Closure Share journal entries

Assessment

Formative: observing research, helping students research, listening when they are sharing
their journal entries.
Reflection

What Worked When we went over the timeline that I put together there was a lot of
interest in the investigation into missing and murdered indigenous women
and girls. I had not put together any resources on this, but I decided to
have a group work with me and I read them some articles. This turned out
to be very interesting and we all learned a lot together.

What Didn’t When I was working with a group it got a bit noisy in other areas of the
Work classroom. I was seated with my back towards the rest of the class, I
probably should have sat on the other side of the table so that I could still
see everyone.

What I Would I would give clearer instructions and show the assignment and links on
Change the projector. Some students were confused about where to go to see the
resources.