Shin-chi's Canoe
by Nicola Campbell & Kim LaFave
Description:
This picturebook, a sequel to Shi-shi-etko captures the experience of siblings being taken away from their family and being in a residential school. Readers follow this sister and brother pair through leaving home, being separated, not being given enough food, missing home, and finally a temporary happy ending when they get to return home for the summer.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Grade 1 - 7
Keywords: residential schools, separation, histories, kinship, family, Elders, oral tradition, resilience, hope, identity
Year of publication: 2008
Publisher information: Groundwood Books
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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