Fatty Legs
by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, & Liz Amini-Holmes
Description:
Fatty Legs is based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, a residential school survivor. It is co-written by her daughter-in-law, Christy Jordan-Fenton. It is recommended for middle school ages. The tale is about how eight-year old Margaret Pokiak wanted to learn to read but faced the terrors of residential schools.
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In this video, author Christy-Jordan Fenton reads Chapter One of Fatty Legs.
Resource format: Novel
Age recommendation: Grades 5 - 7
Keywords: residential school, survivor, lived experiences, true story, Inuit
Year of publication: 2010
Publisher information: Annick Press
Teaching and Learning Ideas
Our team collaborated with new teachers, alumni of the Werklund School of Education’s Bachelor of Education program, to create teaching and learning plans for texts in this website. With audiences ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to Post-Secondary, lesson plans across this resource address a wide range of school subject areas, inclusive approaches, and Indigenous education topics, such as the revitalization of Indigenous languages. As this website was designed with Undergraduate Programs in Education instructors, as well as teachers in mind, connections to UPE courses have been flagged on each lesson plan. These lessons are intended as a starting place for educators, to help you envision ways in which you might bring Indigenous literatures, as well as ways of knowing, being, and doing, into your teaching contexts. Please adapt, use, and share these lessons in ways that are generative for your teaching practice. We offer our sincere thanks to the dozens of new teachers who gifted us with these creative ideas!
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