Orange Shirt Day
Essential Questions
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Activity
Pre-Reading
Pre-Reading
- Consider the following before you read the Orange Shirt Day article:
- What is the difference between active and passive listening?
- What is the difference between speaking at, or sharing with, someone?
- What does listening look like?
- What does active listening NOT look like?
- What do you already know about Residential Schools in Canada. Share your thoughts on this padlet.
- We will be reading about Residential Schools and hearing some Survivors’ painful stories, and your job as listeners is not to offer solutions or to talk about an experience that they had that was similar.
- Instead, it is simply to accept the other’s story with a nod, a smile, or a gesture to indicate that they are receiving the story or testimony.
- Offering a simple “thank you” after someone has shared their story is one way to show the speaker you have listened and received their story without giving your opinion.
- Reflect on why it would be important to receive someone’s difficult story in an open way. (So that they feel heard, supported, not judged; to encourage further communication; to help people with their healing journeys.)
- Please read the following short article.
- Answer the following on a piece of paper (then take a picture and upload your image to Teams) or created a document to hand in:
- How might Phyllis' story make other Residential School Survivors more comfortable to share their stories?
- What does an orange shirt symbolize the loss of?
- 'Every child matters' is the slogan for Orange Shirt Day. For what reasons is it an appropriate slogan?
Conclusion
Post-Reading
Post-Reading
- Complete the Changes to My Thinking organizer to reflect on how your understanding of how your understanding of Orange Shirt Day, reconciliation and/or Residential Schools has changed from reading the article.