Shi-shi-etko
by Nicola Campbell & Kim LaFave
Description:
This picturebook contains a story of a young girl about to be taken away to residential school for the first time. Her family brings her around their home and nature in the days before she needs to leave and tell her all about all of what she must not forget and she gathers momentos to her keep courage.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Grade 2- 9
Keywords: young girl, residential school, courage, family, nature, residential schools, kinship, family
Year of publication: 2005
Publisher information: Groundwater 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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