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Strange, too, on the walls all around were what looked like killer whales.Īfter they finished eating, the chief said to the others, “Let us sing a welcome song and invite our guest to join in the dance of our people.Īnd so begins the adventure of a young Haida boy. They gave him a blanket to wear and a fish to eat, but the fish was not cut up or cooked. Inside the house was crowded with finely dressed people enjoying a feast. And together they entered the largest house of all. You are welcome son of a chief from above,” said one who appeared like a chief himself.

A storm has brought me to you,” said the boy.

The houses, the canoes, and even the people were very large. He soon found himself washed ashore under a strange sky he had never seen before. The previous articles are available online at Click on “Articles” and then “Literacy.”Ī chief ’s son went fishing alone, and a terrible storm arose.

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This is the latest in a series of Planning Department articles that suggest ways to organize school-wide literacy events around a single book title. The shared experience of constructing knowledge through a theme gives learners opportunities to connect with one another.” ( Building Connections: Making Themes Work by Anne Davies, Colleen Politano and Caren Cameron, 1993). “Themes give teachers ways to identify and invite connections between kids and topics, kids and kids, classes and classes, school and community, old knowledge and new knowledge, and process and content. I have a long-held bias towards blending the curriculum areas into a theme (usually linked by a piece of literature) and there is a lot of data that reflects the success of this approach to learning. For the last five years, our elementary school has engaged in two literacy sequences a year the first is used as an integrated approach to the September start up, and the second has become a natural way to intergrate curriculum and make connections across the school.

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