National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

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Int
All ages
Grades 6–12

In this lesson, students learn about the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to commemorate the experience of Canada’s residential school survivors. Students learn related vocabulary, practice parts of speech, and discuss the implications of this dark period of Canadian history.

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Focus

topic-based
4-skills
parts of speech
interpretive

Vocabulary

reconciliation
commemorate
residential school
fund
assimilate
dominant
abusive
possession
trauma
awareness
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