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GRADE 11 NATIVE STUDIES UNIVERSITY PREP

GRADE 11 NATIVE STUDIES UNIVERSITY PREP. NBE 3U1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbNDmKFzzG8&feature=related. NATIVE ENGLISH. Pre-Requisite: Grade 10 Academic English Credit value: 1.0.

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GRADE 11 NATIVE STUDIES UNIVERSITY PREP

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  1. GRADE 11 NATIVE STUDIESUNIVERSITY PREP NBE 3U1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbNDmKFzzG8&feature=related

  2. NATIVE ENGLISH • Pre-Requisite: Grade 10 Academic English • Credit value: 1.0

  3. If any of your reasons for taking this course include the following then you are more than encouraged to take this amazing course • It is something new and exciting • You want to learn more about Aboriginal roots and culture • You dislike Shakespearean plays • You want something different • You like having Ms. Junyk or Ms. Hemsworth as a teacher

  4. Assessment Format Used • Tests • Quizzes • Writing assignments • Oral work • Group work • Peer evaluation • Self evaluation

  5. Summary • Study the works of English Aboriginal writers • Focusing on the understanding on the true aboriginals • Why it is important to study Canadian Aboriginals • Study the problems aboriginals face in society • Analyze literary texts and the media works • Gain appreciation for aboriginal writings as well as culture and their traditions

  6. WHAT WE READ • Keeper ’N Me (Novel) • Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock (play) • Education is Our Right (play) • Poems • Legends • Stories

  7. WHY THIS COURSE? • Learn about aboriginal heritage and cultural concepts -The Circle/The Medicine Wheel -The Number 4 -Extended Family -Collective Decision Making -Holistic Approach to Life -Cooperation -Respect

  8. A Final exam is required as well as an ISU and a culminating activity • You learn just as much if not more than you would in any other English course • You do not study Shakespeare • All assignments focus around an aboriginal aspect which is a great learning experience and very enjoyable • You become more open minded and view Indians (Aboriginals) in a whole new light

  9. HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN ASSIGNMENT CREATED BY HARKAMAL AND ILISH FOR THE ABORIGINAL LEGEND OF BIG BIRD http://goanimate.com/user/09enHKzMCJ-g

  10. RESOURCES • An Anthology of Canadian Native • Literature in English • Honour the Sun by: Ruby Slipperjack • Keeper’n Me by: Richard Wagamese • Movies: How People Got Fire, The Invisible Nation

  11. QUESTIONS? Please don’t hesitate to ask 

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