7.  Pick a scene in which you disagreed with how a character handled a situation/person and rewrite it in the way you think it should have happened.

The scene that i disagreed with is when Barb was talking about Grace is a rude way and Anne slapped her in the face. In the first place i wouldn’t have said what Barb said about Grace saying how they don’t even know her and for all they know she could be dead. i would have had Anne talk to her about it and not lash out and slap her, Anne would have explained how Barb doesn’t understand what its like to have your very first kid took away from you at such a young age and talked to here about respecting her sister more and also having more respect for herself and never say anything like that again. That is why i disagreed with Barb in that specific scene

13.  How does the character’s actions affect other people in the story?

I think that the characters actions affect the other people in the story in a big way because if someone is in a bad mood it could cause someone else in the story to be in a bad mood as well. When Barb is getting mat at Anne and they start arguing it makes Rodney feel uncomfortable and that he shouldn’t be there at that time but Barb wont let him leave so he is stuck in that situation. Also when Grace got out of her vehicle that was in the snowbank Rodney looked at her said “impressive’ which could have made Barb feel jealous and feel that Rodney might not like her anymore. If someone is happy in the house like when Anne was excited on winning the lottery and everyone was happy with her it could be a totally different story. That’s why I think that peoples actions can affect other people in a big way.

3. pick one character and explain why you would/would not like to have him/her as a friend

I would not like Rodney as a friend because he seems to be the person that never wants to do anything and is always in a bad mood. He is really bitter and that wouldn’t be one of the friends that I would want. I like people that are funny, like to go out and do activities and is generally a nice person but Rodney seems to be the exact opposite of that. Rodney seems to be a person that doesn’t enjoy being with other people, he seems to have a negative attitude towards many things. My friends and I like to make everything into something you can have fun doing, and things you can look back and laugh at. I feel Rodney doesn’t care about having the memories he just live in the time right now and doesn’t care about the future. That’s why I would not like Rodney as a friend.

1. Indian residential schools operated in Canada between the 1870s and 1990s.
2. The term residential schools refers to an extensive school system set up by the Canadian government and administrated by churches that had the nominal objective of educating aboriginal children but also the more damaging and equally explicit objectives of indoctrinating them into Euro-Canadian and Christian ways.
3. They were government sponsored religious schools established to assimilate indigenous children into euro-Canadian culture.
4. Father Joseph Hugonnard, principal, with staff and aboriginal students of the school.
5. About 150,000
6. 80 in Canada, 22 in Saskatchewan
7. Trying to change their religion from aboriginal to Euro-Canadian.
8. Students were discouraged from speaking their first language or practicing native traditions. If they were caught, they would experience severe punishment.
9. Gordon Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, was closed in 1996.
10. The Sixties Scoop refers to a practice that occurred in Canada of taking, or “scooping up”, Indigenous children from their families and communities for placement in foster homes or adoption.
11. It began in the late 1950s and persisted to the 1980s.
12. Provincial Child Welfare Agencies chose to remove children from their homes.
13. They were put into Residential Schools. Into foster houses and put up for adoption.
14. The purpose was to ruin the First Nation culture.
15. Cultural genocide or cultural cleansing is a concept that lawyer Raphael Lemkin distinguished in 1944 as a component of genocide.
16. The negatives were that they were taken away from their families and forced to learn a different religion but in my opinion there weren’t any positives.
17. There were big impacts because they were not treated right in the schools and they didn’t get to grow up with their real families which could cause a big impact on their life.
18. The First Nations will never forget about the schools so some might not ever forgive the people for what they did to their culture.

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