United Nations Secretariat, defined cultural genocide as “any deliberate act committed with the intention of destroying the language, religion or culture of a . . . group, such as, for example, prohibiting the use of the group’s language or its schools or places of worship.
Globe and Mail journalists Gloria Galloway and Bill Curry interviewed special adviser to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission John S. Milloy, who told them, “Some have been reluctant to use the word genocide out of concern that it would be seen as an attempt to equate Canada’s history with the genocide of Jews by the Nazis during the Second World War, although . . . the term cultural genocide is appropriate to the aboriginal experience in this country.”
ELA B30 students you will,
In two to three paragraphs, please consider the following question:
In what ways do the goals of the residential schools fit the idea of genocide? Where is there overlap (Holocaust and Residential Schools in Canada)? What differences do you notice (Holocaust and Residential Schools in Canada)?
ELA B31 students you will
Use the Venn Diagram below and consider the following question:
In what ways do the goals of the residential schools fit the idea of genocide? Where
is there overlap (Holocaust and Residential Schools in Canada)? What
differences do you notice (Holocaust and Residential Schools in
Canada)?
1. Look at the Venn diagram example below- copy this onto loose leaf.
3. In the outside circles, you will use jot notes/ point form to think about what is the same/ alike between these two texts.
2. For your Venn Diagram, please label above the circles: Holocaust and Residential Schools
4. In the inside circle, where the circles overlap/ cross over, you will use jot notes/ point form to think about what is different.
5. Once finished, please take a picture of your Venn diagram and email it to your teacher with your name clearly marked on your assignment to get credit for your ideas and learning.
- Please use the google form to answer these questions to me with your name clearly marked on your assignment to get credit for your thoughts and ideas.
- Click submit once you have finished all the questions. Reflection Question- Google Form
- By using the Google form it will be emailed to me directly.
Once you have completed this reflection, please send it to Mrs. Otke with your name clearly marked on the assignment/ Google Doc to get credit for your ideas and learning.