First Nation, Metis, and Inuit Questions

Samin - Did the Mississauga's trade the land of Toronto to the Europeans
            April 8th - Who was the god for the Mississaugas?

Aryan - How did the Oddawa people travel?
            April 8th - Where does Oddawa tribe live today?

Anas - How did they get their medicine?
            April 8th - Where did Mi'qmaq live?

Rafeed - What did they use for hunting and defence?
             April 8th - What did the Cree eat?

Mantaka/Faiza - How did the Mohawks become enemies with the Algonquin?
                           Why did they choose the name mohawks?
                           April 8th Why did they have Mohawks?

Nazifa - How did the Metis travel?
Dagma -
            April 8 - How did they travel?

Shamail/Ansar - How did the Algonquins learn to survive?
                         April 8th - How did the Algonquins survive?

Kidahne - Did any of the nations survive? What nations are still alive today?
                April 8th -

Talia - Why did the blackfoot make their clothing out of animals?
           Why did they mainly hunt bison?

Sierra - Why did the blackfoot make their clothing out of animals?
            April 8 - Why did they wear the clothing that they did?

Nuha - Why did the Catholic people want to strip the Inuit People of their culture?
            April 8th -

Munibah - What were Haida traditions?
                 April 8th - What did the Haida eat?

Anjela - Why are they called Haida?
              What kind of houses did the Haida live in?

Hamza - How did the Oddawa people find their way back when travelling?
               

Samia - How did the Haida people get their clothes?
             April 8th
Ridita - How did Haida make clothes woven?

Amina - What kind of art did the Iroquois have?
              April 8th -

Abdul - April 8th What kind of music and dance did they have?

First Nation, Metis, and Inuit Topic Choices

Mantaka Faiza: Mohawk or  Tsilhqot'in tribe

Samin: Missisauga 

Ansar + Shamail: Algonquin

Anjela & Munibah : Haida People

Talia & Sierra: Black Foot

Zuhal: Ojibwa

Rafeed & Abdul: Cree / Kree people

Nuha: Inuvialuk People

Nazifa & Dagmawit: Metis

Jawad & Anas: Mi'kmaq

Kidahne & Hamza: Odawa

Aryan - Odawa

Samia - Haida

Amina - 

April 2, 2014 - 

Where on a map is your community located? (provide picture)

FNMI (First Nation, Metis, and Inuit) Lingo

As we begin to talk about First Nation, Metis, and Inuit communities in class, it is important to understand the different terms and vocabulary we will encounter in class and readings.

Here are 5 terms you should know:

First Nation - The Political Term used to describe the First Peoples of Canada, Treaty, Status and Non - Status. First Nations people often refer to themselves as the Nation Formerly Tribe) they are from - For example Ojibwe, Mohawk, Cree, etc. There are over 600 Indigenous nations in North America, each with their own language and dialect

Metis - The term used to represent a newer nation of people, who are First Nations and European decent. They have recently been recognized by the government as having the same rights as First Nations People. 

Inuit - (Formerly referred to as Eskimos) the term used to describe people who are originally from and inhabit the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, and the United States. Inuit often refer to themselves as Inuk, and Canadian Inuit speak Inuktitut

Aboriginal - The political term that encompasses all of Canada's First Nation, Metis, and Inuit People

Indigenous  - The term that describes the original people of the land in which they originated.



Why is it important that we use the right vocabulary when talking about different groups of people?

Abdul - so people understand what you are trying to say

Rafeed - So you know the meaning

Mantaka - to respect them

Dagma - to understand the differences

Hamza - there can be different meanings for the terms.

First Nation Peoples

This site has a lot of information about the different First Nation people of Ontario. Students will be picking a community to focus on for a report. They will be responsible for becoming experts on the community.

http://www.anishinabek.ca/

Olympics 

The Winter Olympics just ended but does not mean we can be proud of Canada because we came in 3rd place. Our team brought 226 athletes at Sochi this year.Our class also supported Poland too.Canada's Olympic team was the best out there, well from my point of view, some might disagree. GOOD JOB Canadian athletes!

  

Making Connections...

In class we will be working on making "deep" level connections with the books we are reading. Here are a few sentence starters to help us on our way.

This reminds me of .......

I have a connection......

An experience I have had like that...

This reminds me of the book ____________because...

This book has made me think about.....

This is like the time....

The part of the story when _______ made me feel....

Making Connections

Learning Goal - Today we are learning to make strong connections to other texts, ourselves, and the world

What is are "strong" connections?
What does that mean?

Kidahne - Something important in your life.
Rafeed - More details
Mantaka - Specific examples
Abdul - Important reasons

Black History Month - Puppet Pals

Here are the groups for the Black History Month presentations:

Abdul and Samin -Muhammad Ali
Mantaka and Nazifa - Harriet Tubman
Hamza and Aryan - Malcolm X
Nuha and Faiza - Martin Luther King
Talia and Sierra- Michelle Obama
Kidahne and Dagmawit - Rosa Parks
Munibah, Zuhal, and Anjela - William Kamkwamba
Ansar and Shamail - Nelson Mandela
Jawad, Rafeed, Anas -
Ridita and Samia - Mama Miti

Barack Obama
Wangari
Langston Hughes
Willie Mays
Jesse Owens

What We Know About The First Peoples of Canada

As we learn about the First Nation People who lived in Canada we will be adding information to our blog. Some of the information on this list is accurate and other pieces of information are things we "think" are accurate. We will be updating this information as we learn. 

Samin - There were 5 tribes - Iriquius
Mantaka - Wendat were a type of First Nation
Rafeed - Mohawk
Mantaka - Wendat and Iriquois were enemies
Mantaka - Enemies couldn't be killed right away. They had to do it slowly.
Dagma - To get food they killed animals.
Anjela - They killed animals to get clothing
Abdul - Animal bones were made into weapons.
Mantaka - Vikings landed in Labrador. 
Kidahne - Europeans and First Nations traded tobacco and wheat.
Mantaka - One of the first Europeans to come was a monk.
Dagma - Vikings named Iceland Greenland.
Nazifa - They hunted Caiboo 

Paper Boycott

The Paper Boycott

By Aryan

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Our class room 212 in Oakridge J.P.S(Junior Public School)are planning to stop paper waste in our school. There are some solutions we are discussing to stop paper boycott. Some solutions are to write the announcement on our Agendas,by sending mails,write it on a sticky note and e.t.c. There is a reason why we are this. The reason is there are more than 800 student in our school which means that every time an announcement needs to go home it takes 800 sheets of paper! It would take 8,000 sheets of paper if there was 10 announcements! This is why we are this for our school and for T.D.S.B.(Toronto District School Board)

Writing an Argument - Recess

Today in class we were learn to plan a balanced argument. We learned that when writing a successful argument we should be able to argue our view, as well as look at the opposite point of view. 

Today we looked at the argument: Recess should be longer.

Here are some reasons why:

To get physical activity - Samin

Because the government wants us to be more active - Aryan

Some clubs are at recess and a lot of clubs don't have time to finish their work - Mantaka

You will have more time to finish your homework at recess - Rafeed

Students have more time to finish their food - Abdul

You get to have more fun and play more - Shamail

More time to go to the washroom and get a drink - Samin

If students got recess taken away, they may still have time to go outside after their punishment. - Samin

In winter the longer you move the warmer you might get - Dagma

Reasons recess should be shorter:

People would complain less about the cold - Nazifa

People who don't like the cold won't have to stay out for as long - Rafeed

Less kids end up getting injured - Jawad

The kids who are lazy and don't want to play wants it to be shorter - Aryan

Some kids actually like doing work instead of recess - Shamail 

Get extra help from a teacher - Samin

School is place of learning and not break time - Nuha

                                 Our New Project

                                                  By: Mantaka

Right now in the morning we are working on PowToons. The PowToons' purpose is to teach people about something that has environmental impact. Some of us choose plastic water bottles, card board boxes, and electronics such as laptops, phones, and ipads. The PowToon are going have music when we done the video part of it.  Once we are done with our PowToons, we will making movies out of the PowToons using ipads. This will be a fun project.