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TC2 Lesson: Detect Propaganda - discuss propaganda using above posters<br />
http://tc2.ca/search_results.php?keyword=propaganda&x=15&y=15<br />
DURING:<br />
Watch the following video: Canadian <strong>Residential</strong> School Propaganda Video 1955<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_V4d7sXoqU<br />
Have students think about who would have created the video and for what purpose?<br />
What was life like for students at the residential school shown in this video?<br />
What would your feelings be toward this video if you watched it in 1955?<br />
Students could use TC2 Activity Sheet: Detect Propaganda and identify propaganda techniques<br />
used in the video, with examples.<br />
AFTER (CONSOLIDATING LEARNING):<br />
Have students discuss their thoughts about the video.<br />
Does this explain why most Canadians believed that Indian <strong>Residential</strong> School children<br />
were receiving a good, formal education which would help them to join and compete in<br />
Canadian society?<br />
ACTIVITY: Students will create their own propaganda poster, showing the First Nation point of<br />
view on <strong>Residential</strong> Schools (choosing from a point of view - sibling, parent, community)<br />
- contrast - raising awareness of what is actually happening.<br />
ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:<br />
Create a rubric for the propaganda poster, using the co-created success criteria of an effective<br />
propaganda poster or the one from TC2 lesson.<br />
TEACHER NOTES:<br />
"Broadcast Date: March 13, 1955 Orphans, convalescents and those who live too deep in the<br />
bush for day school: these are the students of the residential school in remote Moose Factory,<br />
Ont. For ten months a year, these native children — some taken from their homes — start<br />
each day with a religious service before heading to classes. A CBC Television crew visits the<br />
school to salute Education Week — and here, the education is all about how to integrate into<br />
mainstream Canadian society."<br />
This video was created in order to conceal the true nature and motivation behind the residential<br />
school system. In this video, bright-eyed, happy First Nation, Métis, and Inuit children play<br />
skip rope, enjoy participating in a game of hockey and eagerly learn cursive English from an<br />
earnest, honest teacher. Throughout this video, a calm and eloquent speaker provides a voiceover<br />
describing the various activities enjoyed by the First Nation, Métis, and Inuit children,<br />
while constantly emphasizing that enrollment in the residential school was for their own good.<br />
He stresses that these schools allow children in remote areas of the country to receive an<br />
education, and also how a Western education in English would allow the children to fully join<br />
and compete in Canadian society.<br />
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