Movies For Learning: The Good Lie

The Good Lie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Lie

Our next movie this year based on our theme of Social Justice was The Good Lie. This was a great movie and really was timely based on issues of refugees and immigration. The students had their eyes opened in this movie! 

Here are the questions for The Good Lie.

Canadian Immigration Lapbook and Booklist

I have created Canadian Immigration Lapbook Pieces that are available for you to download and use. They use the book Coming to Canada by Susan Hughes as a guide for discovering Immigration in Canada. These pieces are part of the Creative Commons and I am happy to share them with you.

There are many aspects of Canadian Immigration that you may want to cover by reading stories of our Canadian Immigrants. I hope that this list will inspire you to read more about immigration in our past and present!

Coming to Canada: Building a Life in a New Land by Susan Hughes

The Kid's Book of Canadian Immigrationby Deboarah Hodge

Our New Home: Immigrant Children Speakby Emily Hearn

The Day I Became a Candian: A Citizenship Scrapbookby Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet

The Railroad Adventures of Chen Singby George Chiang

White Jade Tigerby Julie Lawson

A Pioneer Storyby Barbara Greenwood

Scared Sarahby Mary Alice Downie

Underground to Canadaby Barbara Smucker

The Drinking Gourdby F.N. Monjo

Andrei and the Snow Walkerby Larry Warwaruk

Call Me Aramby Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

The Old Brown Suitcaseby Lillian Boraks-Nemetz

The Gnome's Eye by Anna Kerz

Immigration - A great start to our Co-op year!

Our first Co-op this year started a new chapter with the addition of Biblical Hermeneutics. For the first hour of the morning we had the benefit of a wonderful pastor teaching our children about Hermeneutics. It is pretty deep first thing for these teens but it will be such a great addition to our day!

This Co-op centered around Immigration in Canada. Each of the students told a story about how their ancestors came to Canada.  For this session the students were asked to be prepared to answer:
Who had come? (how many generations ago?)
Why had they come?
Where had they come from?

The students ended up hearing immigration stories from many different generations, countries and reasons for coming to Canada. I think this was such a visual representation of diversity in this relatively small sample of BC. 

After lunch, the students learned about Picasso and started on their Picasso-like self portrait collages. As always our art instructor sets up the lesson with the life of the artist and facts about the art that our students will be creating. There is always a lively lesson with one so gifted in art and drama!

Then the students "went to town"! Such a great lesson and lots of opportunity for creativity!!
After art it was off to the ball diamond for a great game of softball to finish off a full, but very fun day!! 
Blessings!!

Canadian Immigration Lapbook

This Canadian Immigration Lapbook uses Susan Hughes' book Coming to Canada, Building a Life in a New Land. It was a great study!! Canadian Immigration Lapbook. Go to this post for resource information.