First grade

colonizing Canada, I am guilty The tears come My heart breaks and tells me that this is all wrong and I grieve some more. I grieve for my brothers and sisters of the First Nations Their history is a culture that uses a rolling tongue that remembers everything and unites a community by the careful telling of the journeys of the First Nations since the birth of the world. Every word Every moment Every feeling Every truth Everything that is theirs, they remember including the pain…

language, and is implemented throughout all K-12 grade levels (Garcia, 2009, 186). On the other hand, Two-Way Bilingual Education, or Dual Immersion, is an alternative method that is rarely utilized in the United States. This method of bilingual education is based on a 90:10 model, where 90% of instruction occurs in a child’s native language and the other 10% occurs in the target language in early grades (Garcia, 2009, 186). As the child moves through the grade levels, the program shifts to a…

The first thing teachers should do to help these students learn English is to never have a negative opinion on their heritage language. Encourage the students to continue their first language while learning English or any other language, this will prevent subtractive bilingualism. Though English is typically easier to understand the younger it is taught to individuals it is not impossible later on (Woolfolk, Winne, & Perry. 177). Research also suggests that intense learning in students first…

Lawton Green Ms. DiVincenzo Humanities Grade 7S 9th May The Crusades: Good or Bad? The Crusades were a battle of religion which included some of the most gruesome and horrific battles in history. The Crusades was a series of battles between the Christians and the Muslims (1095-1291), to take control of Jerusalem. If people want to know the truth, it is critical that they have to look at both sides of the arguments. The Christians believed the first Crusade was good because they accomplished…

July 1st, 1867 Sir John A. Macdonald became Canada’s first prime minister, which is an significant event to certain Canadians (Historica Canada, 2014). In this video, it is evident that the heritage minute is telling the viewers that Canada was formed based on unity, courage, persistence, and strength. The video also shows that Sir John A. Macdonald used liquor to bribe the East Delegation. This could be controversial because it shows that our first Prime Minister used alcohol as a mechanism to…

is a student at University of Alberta and in my first…

Canada is a multicultural country. In fact it was the first country to adopt multiculturalism as an official policy in 1971 (ottawa citizen, 2015). So why is that our English curriculum doesn’t reflect this fact. One culture in particular that I feel does not get enough attention is Indigenous people of Canada. To correct this imbalance, Indigenous literature should be compulsory in high school. This exposure will help students understand the troubles that Indigenous people had to face, in the…

CONNECTION TO MINISTRY CURRICULUM This resource is very much relevant to the Ministry Curriculum / B.C.’s New Curriculum as well as the First Peoples Principles of Learning as previously described. The lessons and activities I have extracted from this resource will cater to grade 5 because it is a sensitive topic that suits a more mature grade level that can handle the details of the content and activities. I will outline a few curricular competencies and content objectives that link to the…

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…

I began to study English in the first year of elementary school, in Italy. At that time I was only six years old and I do not remember how I studied in school. In middle school it was mandatory to learn two foreign languages. English was the first one, while the second one was either Spanish or German. I chose Spanish because it was closer to Italian, my first language. I had the same teacher for the English and Spanish classes, and as far as I can remember she did not speak in the target…