Today many Hillcrest students talked about Orange Shirt Day. We wore orange or brought something orange to school today to remember the First Nations children who were sent to Indian Residential Schools. These schools had a profound effect of the culture and language of First Nations people across Canada and forever changed the lives of thousands of aboriginal children and their families. We read one story with our little buddies called "When I Was Eight, a picture book adaptation of the novel Fatty Legs." We are also in the process of reading the long version of 'Fatty Legs'. We also watched some short video clips about the schools including one that told us how Orange Shirt Day come to be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll1pUrK29MM&feature=youtu.be) and some of the history of these schools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnng6Oc_fTo Residential Schools had a profound effect on the culture and language of First Nations people across Canada and forever changed the lives of thousands of aboriginal children and their families. Children younger than you were taken from their parents and sent to live at the schools. They had to give up their language, cultural clothing, and their entire way of life. We had a very interesting conversation about this and as a part of out sharing, please comment below on one or more of these questions and practice responding to your classmates. POST a detailed comment: Remember your digital responsibiity and proofread your comments before posting, checking for full sentences with proper grammar. Thank you in advance for sharing and respectfully remarking on your peers comments.
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justice
9/30/2016 08:43:08 pm
1. It's an important slogan because no matter what race you are, all and every child matters, including YOU!
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TheSplodge
10/2/2016 09:52:05 am
Every child is important. Every one has feelings no matter what they look like or what they believe in. I feel sad for these poor children going to residential school. They can't speak their language, can't have their real name, and can't where the same clothes. I think it shows how Canadians have seen how unfair it is and how grateful we should be that we go to a regular public school.
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Zoella
10/2/2016 12:18:59 pm
It is important because no matter what your culture is, or who you are, you should be treated just the same as everybody else. Listening to all the stories about what has happened to people, it's really sad to think that so many people are treated this way, and that horrible people would do this. It is unacceptable and needs to stop. We are very fortunate to be able to go to school, and have everyone treated kindly and being able to wear what we want. Not just in school, but outside of school at sports, or even in the neighbourhood, we should treat everyone the same and apply the golden rule anywhere.
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Luna
10/2/2016 05:37:07 pm
1) Every child matters is an important slogan because everyone should be treated equally and every one of us matters.
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Xee Dawg
10/2/2016 08:43:33 pm
1. It is an important slogan because every child DOES matter, and it shows to treat everyone kindly.
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ZAPDOS35
10/3/2016 08:10:49 am
1. Every child matters because we are all use full in our own way where each special and doesn't matter what you r culture is.
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