Grade 8 Language: Identity and Community
Acknowledgements
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Learning Activity 1
Montreal 1962, Shauna Singh Baldwin (author) / CommonLit (annotations), URL: https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/montreal-1962, Published 2012, Accessed 28/10/2024. Published in English Lessons and Other Stories, Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2008, p. 15-18. © 1996, 1999, 2008 by Shauna Singh Baldwin. Original annotations by CommonLit with revisions by Shauna Singh Baldwin.
Brown Girl Dreaming cover page, Ryan Thomann, Penguin Random House, URL: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/304851/Brown-Girl-Dreaming/9780147515827, Published 11/10/2016, Accessed 09/10/2024.
Meet Jacqueline Woodson: The Kennedy Center’s next Education Artist-in-Residence, The Kennedy Center, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTaDvyHhoWk, Published 06/04/2021, Accessed 09/10/2024. More information: https://www.kennedy-center.org/jacquelinewoodson.
"Pasteles & Pernil" and "Afros" from Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson, Penguin Random House, Published 28/08/2014, Accessed 09/10/2024. Published by the Penguin Group. p.316-318 and p.321-322.
Learning Activity 2
"How is Food a Part of Culture | Food Week Part 2". Copyright © The Agenda with Steve Paikin/The Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVO). All rights reserved.
What's in Bannock?, Copyright © 2025 The Ontario Educational Communications Authority. All rights reserved.
What is Pemmican?, Copyright © 2025 The Ontario Educational Communications Authority. All rights reserved.
Raven's Quest - Hope, Florence Productions Inc, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7X_ddqEzp4, Published 27/06/2019, Accessed 03/09/2024.
Serving up culture, CBC/Radio-Canada, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYgpBGz1nyw, Published 09/06/2017, Accessed 05/11/2024.
Learning Activity 3
The House on Mango Street cover, Sandra Cisneros, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, URL: https://penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/book/?isbn=9780679734772, Published 03/04/1991, Accessed 12/11/2024.
Excerpt from The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, Published 03/04/1991, Accessed 12/11/2024. pp. 3-7.
Learning Activity 4
Dove Conditioner for Every Hair Type | All Hair is Beautiful, Dove, Unilever, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKKs_29GOM, Published 11/09/2019, Accessed 16/12/2024.
Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, Old Spice, Procter & Gamble, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE, Published 05/02/2010, Accessed 16/12/2024.
How the media shapes the way we view the world - BBC REEL, BBC Studios, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVAztNx0rHQ, Published 28/10/2020, Accessed 12/11/2024.
Young Koreans Appreciate Traditional Hanbok Dress, Jean Chung / Stringer/Getty Images News/Getty Images
Learning Activity 5
What is Digital identity?, University of Guelph McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGV5OBa938I&t=31s, Published 17/08/2021, Accessed 12/11/2024.
Learning Activity 6
Peggy Janicki, Gracie Kelly, Orca Book Publishers, Published 13/01/2025, Accessed 05/11/2024. Photo credit: Gracie Kelly (Soowalie First Nation).
Qu’Appelle Indian Industrial Residential Schoo, O.B. Buell, URL: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3194883&lang=eng, Published ca. 1885, Accessed 05/11/2024. Library and Archives Canada / PA-182246.
Front cover of The Secret Pocket, Carrielynn Victor (illustrator), Peggy Janicki (author), Orca Book Publishers, URL: https://www.orcabook.com/The-Secret-Pocket, Published 04/11/2023, Accessed 05/11/2024.
The Next Chapter – Angela Sterritt, Children's Book Panel, CBC/Radio-Canada, Published 10/06/2023, Accessed 05/11/2024.
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