You Hold Me Up
by Monique Gray Smith & Danielle Daniel
Description:
Publisher's description (Orca Book Publishers, 2017): Starts a dialogue amoung young people, their care providers, and educators about reconciliation and the importance of supportive connections children make with their friends, classmates, and families." The author, Monique Gray Smith, is a woman of Cree, Lakota, and Scottish descent.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Pre-K - Grade 3
Keywords: reconciliation, connections, family, friends, well-being, support, Plains Cree language, kinship
Year of publication: 2017
Publisher information: Orca Book Publishers
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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