English Language Arts A30: In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Cullen
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[J. Proch]
Description
Study guide for the novel.
Study guide for the novel.
Looks at components that enhance student engagement in place based educational programs in the Yukon and Cree Nation reserve schools in northern Alberta.
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
Reflects on Florida's Pastor Terry Jones' burning of the Koran and Canadian history of First Nations treatment by the Church-run residential schools.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.
Scholarly, peer reviewed paper argues the idea that emphasis on "culture" will improve educational outcomes with urban Aboriginal youth is not working and that the issue of race is more important in the urban context.