Monthly Archives: September 2022
TRUTH & RECONCILIATION (ORANGE SHIRT) DAY 2022
Listen to survivors! Believe survivors. It happened, and must never happen again. To anyone, anywhere.
HISTORY-MAKING KIDS: REAL LORD OF THE FLIES SCHOOLBOYS
Lord Of The Flies was another book I studied in school that I actually liked. (I think the only other one was The Chrysalids, a futuristic apocalyptic novel.) But these kids weren’t fictional, and unlike Golding’s band of little sociopaths, they manged things very well. https://tinyurl.com/yakqyo9q How To Survive If You Get Stranded On A […]
HISTORIC BOOK: SIGNIFICANCE OF TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
One of the few books I studied in school that I actually liked. https://bookanalysis.com/harper-lee/to-kill-a-mockingbird/historical-context/ https://time.com/3947242/life-intro-go-set-a-watchman/
HISTORY RESOURCE: ORANGE SHIRT DAY
Try here if you’re looking for some resources for Orange Shirt Day coming up at the end of this month: https://www.orangeshirtday.org/teacher-resources.html https://www.twinkl.ca/resource/orange-shirt-day-powerpoint-ca-ss-1629306476
HISTORY TIDBIT: THE FIRST PRINCE OF WALES
We now have a new Prince of Wales. This one, like many of those before him, is English, but there were Welsh Princes of Wales long before the English Monarch, Edward I, bestowed that title on his heir, the future Edward II. According to legend, the Welsh weren’t especially chuffed about being under English rule, […]
HISTORIC PASSING: QUEEN ELIZABETH II 1926 – 2022
Though I lived in England as a child, I didn’t experience a local royal visit until I was a teenager and our family had moved to British Columbia, Canada. The above picture was taken in Kelowna in 1971. R.I.P., Your Majesty. In the medieval tradition: The Queen is dead. Long live the King. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/queen-funeral-watch-king-charles-1.6576646 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/queen-elizabeth-monarchy-wherry-analysis-1.6576628 […]
Time Travelling With Kids 