September 29

English 10

Today we started class discussing and learning about the story behind Orange shirt day, in terms of history and the personal story of Phyllis Webstad.  Next we continued to listen to the example of an aboriginal creation story and  we created a Venn diagram comparing the Judeo-Christian creation story with Aboriginal creation stories.  We also briefly discussed bias and viewed a video comparison of aboriginal vs western world views in terms of economics. 

Humanities 8

Today students wrote a quiz on chapter 4.  Then we learned about Orange shirt day and residential schools.  The majority of the class involved group work around Johnny from the novel The Outsiders .  Students were asked to create a poster with information on the following:

Johnny Cade

Charge: 
Why?

Verdict:
Why?

Accomplices:
Why?

What would you have done if they were Johnny?

Tomorrow students will report to the class on what their group came up with.