Happy Holidays everyone!

Enjoy this free time to have some rest and have some quality time with your loved ones. Organize yourselves to do the work that you have to do in order to stay in touch with your student's duties so that when you come back to school, it will be easy to keep up!

Take good care of yourselves and your family!

Best,

Mrs. Wagnac

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King Charles has always been concerned about environmental issues, indeed, when he first started to show interest about it in the 1970s, he was an avant-gardist, a visionary man, a pioneer. Nowadays, ecological issues have been the major problems that we have to face in our modern world. Thus/ as a result, we can say that the monarchy is completely modern as it take into account the current social issues.

Homework: Learn the lesson.

Oral Production: Art Exploration, New Faces of Royalty. 

All the details are on Pronote.

Be ready!

Enjoy this holiday season! 😊

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King Charles has always been a passionate about protecting the environment. When he started to show interest in ecological issues in the 1970s people would mock him. However, he was an avant-gardist, a visionary man, a pioneer, modern before the time. As the years went by, people started to take the ecological problems seriously, and King Charles never gave up his ideas and values in his will to protect the environment. Hence, his passion for the environment make the monarchy modern.

Homework: Learn the lesson.

Oral Production: Art Exploration, New Faces of Royalty. 

All the details are on Pronote.

Be ready!

Enjoy this holiday season! 😊

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During slavery in America in the 19^th century, African slaves became friends/got along well with the Native American because they had the same “enemy”. Indeed, both communities had been oppressed by the European colonists.  Furthermore, some rich Native Americans also had African slaves traded with European colonists at the time. This was the beginning of the creation of the Black Indian community.

To conclude, This community chose to be called “Black Indians” in order to  pay tribute/ pay homage/commemorate to their Native American heritage.

Homework: Learn the lesson.

Enjoy this holiday season.😊

Black Indians

The document under study is an article from powwows.com, published in 2022. It deals with Black Native Americans and their history as Afro-Indigenous People. We have learned that Black Indians are different from African Americans and Native Americans because genetically, they have Native American and African genes. Indeed, their ancestors got together and had children.

The reason why we do not know a lot about them is because historians never took the time to research and explore the history of Black Native Americans because it was not important nor interesting for them. Nevertheless, Black Indians are definitely an important part of American history and culture. Indeed, this community still exists today.

(We will continue the study of the text next time. Be ready!)

Homework: Learn the lesson.

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As a consequence, when they became adults and left the school, they developed addictions such as alcoholism, smoking and drugs. On top of that, they did not have the social skills to fit into the society that was the reason why they became violent people.

Indeed, the children were traumatized and broken for the rest of their lives.

Eventually, the Canadian government acknowledged its misdeeds through Justice Murray Sinclair who denounced Canada about these atrocities. In fact, He said that Canada committed a cultural genocide. As a result, the Prime Minister at the time, Justin Trudeau, gave an apology to the Aboriginals. Afterwards, the Aboriginals were deeply happy and moved that someone finally addressed the issue and made amends officially to the survivors.

To finish with, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was created to recognize the wrongdoings of the Canadian government and encourage unity and fair treatment towards the Aboriginals.

Homework: Learn the lesson.

Be ready for the Final Task for Monday, January 5th.

Promote your Province.

All the instructions are on Pronote.

 Truth and Reconciliation is Canada

The document under study is a testimony of Chief Robert Joseph, a member of the First Nations telling about his experience as a student in the former Residential school system in Canada. It was published in 2017 on CBC YouTube Channel.

The Residential schools were for children from the First Nations created by the Canadian government to force Aboriginal children to assimilate into the Canadian culture and to make them forget about their traditional cultures. There were 150,000 children who had to go through it for 100 years. The last school closed in 1996.

Chief Robert Joseph was 6 years old when he started to attend a Residential School. He had to suffer segregation, indeed, boys and girls were separated. He was not even allowed to exchange with his sister otherwise he could be punished. He had to be washed with a white liquid in order to change his skin color. He had to have his hair cut. On top of that, they had to forget about their traditional belief to convert to Christianity. As a result these children suffered from physical and psychological violence.

(We will continue the study of the video next time. Be ready!)

Homework: Learn the lesson.