by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Ask students: Why do you think their father gave Shi-shi-etko a tiny canoe before they left? What evidence does the author give that lets you know how the adults are feeling about the two children leaving for residential school?
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Shi-shi-etko doesn’t want a repeat of what happened the previous year when the people at the residential school cut off her braids and threw them away. She asks her grandmother to cut them for her, and afterward she and Shin-chi go “up the mountain to put their braids...
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Shi-shi-etko and Shin-chi want their father to build them a dugout canoe while they are away at residential school so that they can learn how to paddle on their own next summer. Ask students: Can you think of something that you used to have to do with an adult but now...
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Ask students: Looking at the first picture in the story, how do you think Shi-shi-etko is feeling about leaving? How can you tell?
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
“When we bury the truth underground, it builds up, it takes on such an explosive force, that, the day it bursts, it blows up everything with it” (page 30). What is this quote saying about the truth? Can you think about a time when this...
