Land Relationships
The Indigenous People's ancestral land we reside on.
What is the Kwantlen, Matsqui, Semiahmoo, and Katzie First Nations?
The structure/shape of a European Worldview.
What is a pyramid or hierarchy?
The key components of the introduction of an essay.
What is a hook, (optional) summary, thesis, and signposting?
Instructions in the script that detail how characters move, speak, and interact on stage. These directions offer valuable insights into the playwright's intended staging and character dynamics.
The term for the point of greatest tension or conflict in a story.
The tense we talk in when performing a land acknowledgment (past/present/future)
What is past, present, and future.
The structure or shape of an Indigenous Worldview.
What is a circle?
The key components of a body paragraph
What is the assertion/topic sentence, evidence, explanation, and transition sentence?
The imaginary barrier of the box theater setting, supposedly removed to allow the audience to see the action.
What is the Fourth Wall?
The Indigenous name for North America
What in Turtle Island?
Why we create land acknowledgements (3 points).
What is (Pick 3):
Part of reconciliation
Acknowledging our position
Recognize the past, present, and future of indigenous peoples
Support Indigenous peoples
Not colonizing but coexisting
Not putting emotional stress on the Indigenous peoples to educate
In general, European relationship to land compared to Indigenous relationship to land.
The key components of a concluding paragraph
What is a summary of your argument, restating your thesis, and (optional) suggesting a point of further exploration?
A figure of speech where exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect. It involves making something sound much bigger, smaller, worse, or better than it actually is.
What is Hyperbole?
Ms. Dowall's number most common feedback for students.
What is add detail/specifics?
Why it is important to perform a personal land acknowledgement.
What is to create a connection to land and do the acknowledgement justice. To reflect on our own relationship with the land and its long history. (Not performative but meaningful)
European relationship to time.
What is Linear?
What is an assertion?
What is an argumentative statement that requires evidence to support?
(Also acceptable: a mini-thesis)
When the audience knows something that the characters do not, leading to tension and suspense.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The book that begins with these lines: There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair.
What is Divergent?
Indigenous language that does not divide the world into masculine and feminine. Where nouns and verbs are animate and inanimate.
What is Potawatomi?
Indigenous relationship to time.
What is circular?
The correct way to WRITE the title of a play
What is underlined?
A character whose traits contrast with another character, highlighting specific qualities or themes.
What is a Foil?
A mistake that involves using the words that sound the same but are spelled differently.
What is using homophones?
(Flour vs. Flower)
(Blue vs. Blew)
(Their vs. There)