Reconciliation Journals

Base XP: 180

Learning Target(s):

Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
Recognize and understand how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identities
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate its relevance
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas with, between, and beyond texts

Task:

For this final project, you will be writing journal entries from the viewpoints of 3 different stakeholders in the Truth and Reconciliation for Canada's Indigenous people.

You will be writing your journal in response to the question: What does Reconciliation mean now?

The backstory:

The word reconciliation has had an interesting path. In the 1540's, with Latin roots, conciliates meant to bring together, unite and make friendly in council. Shortly after this time, and for many years after, the Catholic church utilized both the Latin and the current pronunciation as a synonym for religious penance, or the work it would take in order to be forgiven for your sins. Now, in our present day it means to make right a grievous wrong made not so long ago to multiple generations of people.

So then, my question to you is, what does Reconciliation mean now and moving forward into the future?

Watch these videos and think about this question:

For your journal entries, you must include:

Make specific reference to the historical events and/or people that have affected Truth and Reconciliation
Write in the first person (I, me, my)
Fully create this character for your reader and develop the narrative to inform and compel the audience to the feelings of your character.
Make each journal entry different, rather than a different slice of the same pie. Utilize all that you have learned and create something of value.

*There is no length set for these entries. They are complete when the criteria above has been met. Remember to edit your writing as mistakes take the power from the writing by distracting the reader from your message.

Feel free to complete additional research. There is a lot of information out there about this issue.

The scenarios:

Journal 1: You are a residential school survivor.

Journal 2: You are a Canadian Federal Politician

Journal 3: You are a young person learning about reconciliation. Write this final journal entry from your own point of view.

Submission: When your response is ready, submit it to the dropbox here, and please let me know if/why you require additional XP.

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