Wednesday, April 6th 2016

Social 10: (90 min)

Objective: Students will evaluate the steps Canada has made to address the
legacies of historical globalization that affect the FNMI people by way of the
Residential School system.

Discuss Recovering from Residential Schools (45 min)

o Formal Apologies
o IRSSA (Indian Residential School Settlement Act) [2007]
A comprehensive plan to tackle the damage created by the
residential school system. Contains several options to assist
FNMI Canadians. This act is also the largest class action
settlement in Canadian history to date.
Services in the IRSSA include:
Common Experience Payment:
o Every former student was able to apply for a $10k
settlement for the first year of schooling and $3k
for each subsequent year.
o By the end of 2012, 98% of the 80,000 former
students received payment totalling in over $1.6 of
the $1.9 billion made available by this settlement.
Independent Assessment Process:
o Set aside as additional funding available for the
victims of sexual abuse, and serious cases of
physical and psychological abuse out of the courts.
o As of 2012, over 1.7 billion dollars were issued by
the IAP.
o According to the chief adjudicator, Dan Ish, 3x the
number of cases were risen than expected, and
hearings have continued and will proceed until
2017.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission:
o $50 million for a 5 year inquiry commission to allow
people to share their stories, raise awareness, and
create a comprehensive history of the residential
school system.
o In the end, the commission released 941,000
documents related to Res. Schools.
Commemoration
o The commission created a $20 million dollar
commemoration committee which showed
appreciation, honouring and acknowledging the
suffering of former students.

In the end, they approved 69 projects and gave out

$8.5 million to commemoration celebrations.
Health and Healing Services
o %125 million was given to the work of social
workers, elders, Aboriginal health workers, and
psychologists to help support and benefit the
thousands of former students living with
psychological trauma for the Residential School
system.
Criticisms of this Program
Unethical Lawyers gouging money from clients (15% fee
hike from Govt money)
The settlement states that lawyers could only charge this
percentage for difficult cases; they instead charged this
fee regularly.
NGO and PVO (15 min)
o Discuss what an NGO and PVO are and how they work.
o Publically or privately funded? Differences?
o What is a Non-Profit Organization?
o The role they played in Rwanda and rebuilding?
Several NGOs and PVOs rushed in to help rebuild Rwanda after
the atrocities, war, and genocide.
o Are they better, or worse than government or international assistance?
o What are the positives and negatives of each?
Begin Advertisements Assignment (30 min)
o Work as a group and pick a legacy of historical globalization, either in
Canada or otherwise.
o Your group is seeking to rectify the legacies of historical globalization.
o Your task is to work as a group to create a proposal that explains what
you are working to solve and how you plan to do it. (~2-3 pages)
[Group work 10%]
o Then you will each individually create an advertisement for to raise
awareness of your issue and solution for the general public. [Individual
work 10%]
o

Social 20: (90 min)

Objective: Students will understand the fundamental aspects of rhetoric and how to
use the three major appeals.

Discuss: (30 min)

o What is Persuasive Writing?
o How can we be persuasive?
o Why is this persuasive?
Audience
Supported

Well-Formed Argument
Ultimately an opinion
The Three Appeals
o Ethos
Sense of Ethics and Higher Morality
E.g. Churches and the Support for Laws, American AntiGun Control
o Pathos
Sense of the Sympathetic or Emotional Argument
E.g. Starving African Children Ads
o Logos
Sense of Logic supported by fact and lead by Logical conclusion
Doctors, Scientists, etc.
Breaking an Argument Down (22 min)
o Watch Shane Koyczan Video To This Day [7 min]
o Watch Martin Luther King Jr. I have a Dream [10 min]
o Watch Sponsor a Child Like Sefiya [2 min]
o Watch PBS Idea Channel Net Neutrality [8 min]
Discussing the Examples (18 min)
o Break each example argument down into its three main claims, which
audience it is trying to reach, and how well it does that.
Practice Paragraph (20 min)
o Try to be persuasive
o Position: To what extent should we change our high school schedule?
o Writing to different audiences
Things to considers:
Values
Level of Education
Willingness to Agree
E.g. Parent, Teachers, Administrators, General Public, Students,
Researchers,
Discussing and Sharing (10 min)

ELA 8/9: (90 min)

Objective: Students will understand the way in which the techniques of construct
and art reinforce the story of a graphic novel.

Read Part 2 of Marvel 1602 (30 min)

Discuss Parts 1 and 2 of Marvel 1602 (30 min)
o Characters
Xavier and X-Men
Otto von Doom
QuickSilver
King James of Scotland
o Plot
Fury visits Xaviers School talks about

Peter goes to meet Cap. And Virginia

Daredevils backstory
Meeting between the Inquisition and King James
Steven Strange goes to the palace for no reason?
Fury interrogates the man who attacked him. Finds out that he is
one of three assassins
Cap. And Virginia meet with the Queen, Virginia attacked and
transforms into a white griffin. Restrained by Cap. And Strange
Page Analysis (15 min)
o Introduction of Count Otto von Doom
Reflections (15 min)
o Based on what you have read so far, if you had written Marvel 1602
what would you do differently?