EFP 11 Journal Prompts

Sept 5 (1)

1. Which of the First People's Learning Principles do you connect with and why?

Sept 10 (2&3)

2. What do you already know about First Peoples’ Oral Traditions? 

3. Did your ideas about oral communication remain the same or change after talking with your classmates and hearing or seeing others’ answers to the questions?

Sept 16 (4)

4. "What impact does writing stories down have?"

Feb 24 (5-6)

5. How do stories shape how we see ourselves and the world? 

6. Can we tell other peoples’ stories?

Mar 7 (7)

What are symbols of protection or safety that you’re aware of? Where might you find or encounter these symbols, and how do they connect to your life? 

Reflect and discuss with detail (no list). 

Apr 2 (8)

Respond to the following quote;

“One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted – knowingly or unknowingly – in ourselves. We live stories that either give our love meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.” 

Ben Okri

May 20 (8)

What you have learned today. (we watched Angela Sterritt's Tedx talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_23ogVsT4

In other words: Discuss what they learned today and connect it to a previous learning in as much depth as you can.

May 22 (9)

Journal Prompt – Write a journal entry about the ways that you have seen indigenous people represented in in media and society prior to taking this course, and what your thoughts are now on the matter.

Oct 11 - Optional (O1)

Optional journal response loosely respond to the prompt that you did not write a paragraph on.)

Topics – choose one of the following prompts to respond to;

How does Why Indigenous Literatures Matter and "Growing Up Native" present their impression of Indigenous experiences? 

or

How does Daniel Heath Justice understand the concept of story, and in what ways does your own understanding of story align or contrast with Daniel Heath Justice's perspective? 

Nov 20 - Dec 15 (9 -13)

Novel response journals. You were in small groups and you responded to the novel and the group. Five times we did that. 

Jan 05  

What are your thoughts on the nature and role of the Trickster?