Overview of Week:
This week we will continue the themes of community and justice. In the last module, you considered a historic document and video, and you created a persuasive presentation to suggest a small step to begin to address the injustice within our communities today. In this module, we will consider how historic events should be dealt with today by understanding the policies, the abuses and the legacies regarding boarding schools and Native Children in North America.
This module will address the following objectives:
This week we will continue the themes of community and justice. In the last module, you considered a historic document and video, and you created a persuasive presentation to suggest a small step to begin to address the injustice within our communities today. In this module, we will consider how historic events should be dealt with today by understanding the policies, the abuses and the legacies regarding boarding schools and Native Children in North America.
This module will address the following objectives:
- Become an active member of the St. Catherine University community of scholars
- Develop critical and reflective judgment using various perspectives from liberal arts traditions, women-centered scholarly work and Catholic Social Teaching
- Develop excellent reading, critical thinking, writing and speaking skills
- Claim your education
- Apply an understanding of social justice, as an active member of the St. Catherine community of scholars, with a particular focus on dismantling systemic racism
- Apply excellent critical thinking, critical reading and scholarly writing skills (including excellence in organization, voice, audience and sentence fluency)
- Lead and influence as an individual, and in community and career through effective listening, writing, speaking and presenting to diverse audiences
Critically Read, Watch and Annotate(Annotate with a purpose—Why is it important, today, to understand the historical abuses of boarding schools in North America?)
- Unspoken Parts 1 and 2
- U.S. churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native schools
- Canada’s residential schools were a horror
- Q and A with Denise Lajimodiere, telling the stories of U.S. boarding school survivors
- A Quick Guide on Terminology
Critical Thinking Questions:
- Among the texts/videos, what similarities and differences do you see? What values do the sources share or not share? What arguments do the sources make for justice and for restoring community? Whose views seem most convincing, and why?
- Your They Say/I Say Essay
- Week 13 Tips Video
- Your 6-8 sentence discussion post to Critical Thinking Question #1
Post:
- Your They Say/I Say Essay under Assignments
- Your 6-8 sentence discussion post responding to Critical Thinking Question #1
- Comment on the response of two members of your learning community
- Your vote (your professor will give you instructions)
