Unit I–Canadian Perspectives: Distinct and Rich (Define the Individual, Negotiate the Community; Celebrate the Glorious, Acknowledge the Scandalous; Shift Centres, Blur Margins; Understand Beliefs, Initiate Action) Before and throughout our nationhood, Canada’s diversity has been a source of pride and pain, strength and struggle. The wealth of worldviews represented in Canada challenges us, individually and collectively, to define ourselves not just as individuals, but as a nation unique among other nations. Though we live in different regions, work at different endeavours, and experience different customs, lifestyles, and ways of knowing, we strive to live together to honour all the voices and perspectives that make this country great. Through our literature – in all its forms – we explore the issues that influence Canadian culture and Canadian identity.
Essential Questions:
What does it mean to be Canadian?
What sort of people are we?
How do we express and convey our identity as a people?
What are our values, and how do we demonstrate them within and beyond our borders?
How do our visual, oral, print, and multimedia texts reveal what it means to be Canadian?
How does diversity benefit Canada and Canadians?
The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson
Feb. 2 to Feb. 6
* read from chapters 1 to 7
* poem reflecting the prologue
*questions for chapters 1 to 5
* journal entry on lies
Grammar
February 9 to 13
Read chapter 6 – 8
Questions/Vocabualary
Grammar – Subject/Verb agreement
Magazine Article – Mind Map
Writing a summary from a mind map.
Continue Reading to chapter 15
Questions for Chapter 10 – 15
Type good copy of Doukhobor assignment
February 23 to 27
Grammar Assignment on Pronouns Hand in
Chapter 16 – 21 Read
Questions and Activities for Chapters
March 2 to 6
Difference between Novel and Biography
Pronouns and Antecedents
Characteristic Mind Map for John
Write a paragraph describing John Wilson
Comprehension Sheet
Ending of Novel – Irony
Review for test
Test for book
History of O Canada – Analysis, discussion
Essay – “N(O) Canada” – Discuss form and Style
– Create an Outline for Essay
– Discuss Bias
– Purpose of Barn
Relative and Reflexive Pronouns