Lesson 46

 

 We open today's class with the last session of silent reading for a long while - we will come back to personal novels when we finish our class novel work. 

  • We opened with a discussion of some student questions. 
  • We talked about the difference between hereditary chiefs, matrilineal Indigenous governance, and band and council systems imposed by the Indian Act - We did this by returning to Wet'suwet'en and connecting the disagreements between systems there to previous discussion of Amber Bracken's case and press freedom. We also touched on the relationship between these two issues and Sleydo' Molly Wikham. 

We then read the opening section of The Marrow Thieves - up to the middle of page 12 - with a particular focus on the opening dedication and quotations.

For homework, students are to think of another question that has come up for them over the past many weeks of discussion - they have graduated to a much higher level of engagement than their initial questions will now support, which is good news :)

Anyone who missed today's reading should be in tutorial on Monday/Tuesday to catch up before class.  

 

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