English Language Acquisition Teacher Guide - Part 1
Unit Theme: Spirituality
First Peoples text plays a role within the process of reconciliation
- Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to guide inquiry, extend thinking, and comprehend texts
- Text features
- how text and visuals are displayed
- Literary Devices
- sensory detail (e.g., imagery, sound devices); figurative language (e.g., metaphor, simile, hyperbole); irony, paradox, oxymoron
- Reading Strategies
- using contextual clues; using phonics and word structure; visualizing; questioning; predicting; previewing text; summarizing; making inferences
- Oral Language Strategies
- focusing on the speaker, asking questions to clarify, listening for specifics, expressing opinions, speaking with expression, staying on topic, taking turns
- Mangilaluk Graphic Novel
- DK – Read and become familiar with the section on Spirituality in the
- DK – Pages 5-24
- IQ – Pages 30-32
How do relationships with the spiritual world, other people, the land, and ourselves shape who we are?
Small Group Share
- Find an Elder or community member to come into your class to discuss spirituality
- What spirituality means to them and what it can mean to others.
- Possible video of Elder discussing spirituality
- Living Well Modules?
- Recording an Elder?
- Opinion statements
- Put up on your monitor the following opinion statement
- I believe that spirituality and religion are the same
- Students will then complete a reflection on their thoughts connected to the opinion statement
- Put up on your monitor the following opinion statement
- Book Talk Circle Walk
- Students will engage in a book talk – circle walk around the graphic novel
- The teacher will lead the class in a discussion when the walk is complete
- Notice/Wonder/Know
- Students will complete a Notice/Wonder/Know activity using the graphic novel as the text
- Students can then share their thoughts in any number of ways:
Activities Connected to the DK/IQ
Infographic From the DK (page xxxi)
- Students will reflect on this page
- Write a response about your connections
- Students will begin to think about what is currently in their learning bundle – personal inventory
- Draw
- Model
- Write
- Voice memo
Tunngavinga – page 30 – 32 (IQ)
- Reflect on the Tunngavinga
- Write a response about your connections
- Students will begin to think about what is currently in their learning bundle – personal inventory
- Draw
- Model
- Write
- Voice memo
- Find an Elder or community member to come into your class to discuss spirituality
Visible Learning Link
- Make space for anchor chart/visible learning in your classroom that will remain around the essential question
- How do relationships with the spiritual world, other people, the land, and ourselves shape who we are?
- Based on what students have learned throughout the module, they will put up understandings and questions connected to this module’s learning
- How do relationships with the spiritual world, other people, the land, and ourselves shape who we are?