Dear Mr. Murray, if you are curious to know about my overall opinion of the course, I am happy to explain it all to you in this reflective essay. The courses main objective was to teach me the overall learning of Canadian history from the important facts of how Canada came to be, to the interesting facts about the native people of this land. Even though the Europeans settled Canada and urbanized it, to me the most interesting facts I learned in this course was being given the opportunity to be able to see the natives eyes through the textbook readings in A Few Acnes of Snow.
In my opinion, this course is really important for anyone wanting to become a Canadian teacher, or they are a Native of Canada, Canadian citizens (people who live in …show more content…
But as the course continued I started to want to critically think about the topics that we are discussing in class and hopefully remember the information for when it will be needed again in the future (midterms and final exams). I ended up enjoying the topic sessions we had in class, and even participated in open discussion time. By the end of the term I’d like to be able to pass the class with an A or B, however, I understand that cannot always be the case, each teacher has a different way of grading and my writing needs better improvement to explain the knowledge this class has imprinted on/in my brain. As for self-expectations from this course, I hoped I would have gained more knowledge of Native life in Canadian history, more on the different groups’ cultures, what they considered as medicine, what they did when they thought someone had an illness, what they would do with men and woman during the marriage season. My old opinion on Canadian history was that the Natives allowed the Europeans to do whatever they wanted to their people because of unknown reasons to myself and frankly destroyed many of their native people lives. However, after reading the textbooks and listening to our in class lectures, I can see that some Europeans didn’t enjoy living here in Canada, many had suffered or died because of the harsh ciliate I may have become a little bit more open minded about Native-American situations with the British and French. I understand now that the native people didn’t have much of a choice or say when it came to allowing the British in, after all, they came in with guns and horses. Through a Few Acres of Snow I’ve learned that some native leaders did try to stop the British and French culture spreading to the Native people, example my readings of the Mimic Native chief. Overall, I can honestly
In my opinion, this course is really important for anyone wanting to become a Canadian teacher, or they are a Native of Canada, Canadian citizens (people who live in …show more content…
But as the course continued I started to want to critically think about the topics that we are discussing in class and hopefully remember the information for when it will be needed again in the future (midterms and final exams). I ended up enjoying the topic sessions we had in class, and even participated in open discussion time. By the end of the term I’d like to be able to pass the class with an A or B, however, I understand that cannot always be the case, each teacher has a different way of grading and my writing needs better improvement to explain the knowledge this class has imprinted on/in my brain. As for self-expectations from this course, I hoped I would have gained more knowledge of Native life in Canadian history, more on the different groups’ cultures, what they considered as medicine, what they did when they thought someone had an illness, what they would do with men and woman during the marriage season. My old opinion on Canadian history was that the Natives allowed the Europeans to do whatever they wanted to their people because of unknown reasons to myself and frankly destroyed many of their native people lives. However, after reading the textbooks and listening to our in class lectures, I can see that some Europeans didn’t enjoy living here in Canada, many had suffered or died because of the harsh ciliate I may have become a little bit more open minded about Native-American situations with the British and French. I understand now that the native people didn’t have much of a choice or say when it came to allowing the British in, after all, they came in with guns and horses. Through a Few Acres of Snow I’ve learned that some native leaders did try to stop the British and French culture spreading to the Native people, example my readings of the Mimic Native chief. Overall, I can honestly