Residential Schools

Historic Events

Low Int
Teens & Adults

In this lesson, students read about a dark period of Canadian history. Students learn about and discuss the residential school system and learn useful terminology.

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Focus

topic-based
4-skills
history
Indigenous Peoples
Canada
interpretive
productive

Vocabulary

boarding school
Indigenous Peoples
suffer
abuse (noun)
culture
realize
sue
apologize

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