by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 25, 2026
After you’ve finished reading How to Bee, celebrate by baking a passionfruit cake (just like the one that Peony bakes in the book) and have a picnic outside. If completing this activity as a class, bake the cake together if a kitchen is available, or combine the...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 25, 2026
Good for Nothing is set in southwestern Quebec, in what is now La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve. Have students research their area and explore what the historical connection is to Indigenous history. Next, they should research and locate where the closest First Nations,...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 25, 2026
In the story, Nipishish is made to attend residential school and is told and made to feel that he is good for nothing. Ask students: Have you heard of any other residential school survivor stories that relate to this experience? Explain.
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 25, 2026
“Could it be that Indians are in trouble? That they are getting in the white people’s way? Could there be someone somewhere — this all-powerful government, for example — who wants to exterminate the Indians?” (page 31) Have students sit together in a circle and...
by Reina Chaiekh | Feb 24, 2026
Ask students to research and examine the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, current treaty disputes in the courts and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Ask them: In what ways did the American War...
