Jasmine Ladines
KEY CONCEPTS
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In the Grade 8 level of high school studying English First Peoples, they focus on understanding the importance of connections with identification, cultures, and communities through stories. This helps the students realize how stories are not just used as entertainment, but in English First Peoples it is mainly a way of telling us how deep knowledge from way long ago gets passed down from one generation to the other generations as a way of some tradition and value. Storytelling has importance as it holds history especially since First Peoples had used this way before written language.
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In the Grades 9 and 10, English First Peoples builds on these ideas by encouraging other people like young students to value other’s perspectives, worldviews, and voices. Students are expected to analyze how communication symbolizes to know. One of key concepts at these two levels are having understanding and respect of the affections with the First Peoples, which had may include things like losses of language, identification, and cultural views. Students are also expected to learn to recognize both non Indigenous and Indigenous language/texts as it has strong forms of recognition.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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EXTRA ENGLISH FIRST PEOPLES IMAGES
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Last and foremost, at the Grades 11 and 12 level, English First Peoples emphasizes on helping older students grow within their critical thinking abilities, responsibilities, and reconciliation. A major part of these key concepts at these levels are being able to recognize the formality of texts when being a reader or a listener when having engagements with more Indigenous language. From doing these actions, students learn that storytelling holds teachings in reconciliation and that they have a connection with real life scenarios.
CONCLUSION
Overall, English First Peoples key concepts grows overtime from the Grade 8 level of starting out as having to learn about the deeper sides of First Peoples and understanding with respect to Grade 9 students having deeper analyzing with respect while having some sense in how the world was like for them, to Grade 10s with the same expectations to finally the Grades 11 and 12 with having high knowledge of what’s been went through in the past. Across all these grade levels throughout high school, all students are taught this importance of the topic to help gain meaningful knowledge.
FUN FACT!
The oldest English word still in use today is allegedly "TOWN"
SUMMARY IN BULLET POINTS
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English First Peoples usually teaches students to understand the identities, culture, and community through storytelling from generations
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In Grade 8, students learn that stories are passed down from one gen to another, and not just as entertainment
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In Grades 9 and 10, students learn to understand different worldview perspectives while keeping respectful
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In Grades 11 and 12, they learn more about taking responsibility when engaging with Indigenous related topics
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Overall, this course helps for students to gain the understanding needed