National Day for Truth & Reconciliation
Holidays & Events
High Int
All ages
Grades 6–12
In this lesson, students learn about the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to commemorate the experience of Canada’s residential school survivors. Students learn related vocabulary, practice parts of speech, and discuss the implications of this dark period of Canadian history.
Focus
topic-based
4-skills
parts of speech
interpretive
Vocabulary
reconciliation
commemorate
residential school
fund
assimilate
dominant
abusive
possession
trauma
awareness