Canadian Voices and Language Reconciliation

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Course Outline

  1. Canadian Unity and Plurality
  2. Highland Games and Canadian Society
  3. Residential Schools and Reconciliation
  4. Paragraph Writing and Comparison Grammar
  5. FirstVoices and Language Revitalization
  6. Language Gap and Community Learning
  7. Language Revitalization Vocabulary
  8. Indigenous Languages Act

1. Canadian Unity and Plurality

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Great Gatsby Curve: Christopher Rauh, Voting, education, and the Great Gatsby Curve, 2016 - A positive relationship between cross-sectional income inequality and the persistence of income across generations, linking inequality with intergenerational income mobility.
  • Intergenerational income mobility: The potential for citizens to achieve upward mobility whatever their parents’ social status.

Essential Points

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Practice quiz preview

1. A young adult's parents had low incomes, but the young adult achieves upward income mobility; which statements describe this concept?

2. A viewer identifies a Murdoch Mysteries episode set at Toronto's Highland Games; which details fit the episode and series?

3. A Survivor chose not to teach their children an Indigenous language to shield them from discrimination. Which statements describe this issue and the course's framing of residential schools?

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According to Justin Trudeau’s 2016 speech, what formed Canada?

Its differences.

Which episode of Murdoch Mysteries is set during Toronto's Highland Games?

Season 17, episode 11.

What historical process brought Scottish traditions into Canadian society?

Colonization.

How did residential schools separate Indigenous children from their families?

They forcibly sent the children away from their families.

What language-related punishment did residential schools impose on Indigenous children?

They forbade the children from speaking their native languages.

How did some Survivors protect their children from discrimination related to Indigenous languages?

They chose not to teach their children Indigenous languages.

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