The Red Sash

The Red Sash

by Jean Pendziwol & Nicholas Debon

Description:

Publisher's description (Groundwood Books, 2005): The Red Sash is the story of a young Métis boy who lives near the fur trading post of Fort William, on Lake Superior, nearly 200 years ago. Recommended by Strong Nations. 

Resource format: Picturebook

Age recommendation: Grades 1-3 & 7

Keywords: fur trade, confederation, Métis, Fort William, Lake Superior, historical fiction, coming of age, FNMI, and fur trade relationships

Year of publication: 2005

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!

The Fur Trade Grade 7 Lesson