Week 2CRITICAL LITERACY

EDBE 8P242016-2017

Agenda

• Professional Learning Conversations • Critical Literacy: The Composition• TRC – What is it? Why does it matter?• Inquiry Questions:– KWL– KWHLAQ

• Research Study• For next week: Explore Resources

Professional Learning Conversations

• PLCs will be led by the Literacy Leader• Literacy Leader posts summary to Drop Box by

the end of today • Sign up for the remaining PLCs– Each person selects 2 sessions: 1 on a week for

“Explore Resources” and 1 on a week for “Professional Reading”

• Literacy Leaders for Week 3 meet with Ruth at end of class

The Composition by Antonio Skarmeta & Alfonso Ruano

Questions to consider for critical understanding

• Who created this resource?• For what purpose was it created?• Is the information accurate and believable?• What does the author want you to think?• Whose voices are missing, silenced, or discounted?• How does it help you think about social issues and

justice?

Critical Literacy… • All texts are constructions

• All texts contain belief and value messages

• Each person interprets messages differently

• Texts serve different interests

• Each medium develops its own “language” in order to position readers/viewers in certain ways

Aboriginal children at Fort Simpson Indian Residential School in 1922http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/02/the-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-report.html J.F. Moran/Library & Archive

Truth & Reconciliation Commission Report

Ottawa, June 2, 2015

INQUIRY KWHLAQKnowWant to knowHow to find itLearnedActionQuestions

What is Project of Heart?

• Begin your investigation by searching the website of the Trust and Reconciliation Commission– http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.p

hp?p=3

Research Study

• Letter of Consent • Questionnaire

Explore Resources

• Go to Sakai: Week 3 – Sept. 26• Explore Resources: Educational Blogs– read very carefully and follow directions– Post to Forum by 8:00 pm, Sept. 25.