Skills / Vocab
to give a brief statement in your own words stating the main points in a passage or text
summarize
What happened to parents who resisted sending their children to boarding schools?
they got punished
Why was Shi-shi-etko punished at her residential school?
she could not understand English
good readers do this by making predictions, clarifying their thinking and to connect more deeply to a text
ask and answer questions
What were children forced to do at boarding schools?
cut their hair, wear uniforms, speak English, perform manual labor, suffer corporal punishment and offer Christians prayers
Where were the children being sent to in the beginning of the story that made their family sad?
boarding school
When should you ask and answer questions?
What were girls trained to do?
be homemakers
What were Shin-chi and Shin-shi-etko's English names?
David and Mary
4 steps
What were the boys trained in?
farming, carpentry and metalworking
Why is the canoe important to Shin-chi?
an intense process of consistent integration when members of an ethno-cultural group are forced to change their culture to make them similar to another
cultural assimilation
What did children play in that allowed them to stay somewhat connected to their Plains cultures?
tipis
What did Shin-chi and his new friend like to do?
steal food together