Letter to the Wenjacks

Learning Target(s):

  • Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
  • Analyze how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages
  • Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking
  • Select and apply appropriate oral communication formats for intended purposes
  • Experiment with genres, forms, or styles of texts
  • Use the conventions of First Peoples and other Canadian spelling, syntax, and diction proficiently and as appropriate to the context

1. Watch the video below of Gord Downie​ and Justin Trudeau​ discussing Canada's future at a ME to WE​ concert in Ottawa with residential school survivors Pearl Wenjack and Daisy   Munroe. 

 

2. Write a short letter or create a video (with a script) to send to Chanie Wenjack’s sisters, Pearl and Daisy. Be sure to share the impact your new understanding of Indigenous Peoples in Canada has had on you. Explain how learning about Chanie's story, residential schools, and Secret Path has affected you.

Friendly letter samples

  1. Write a short opening paragraph to introduce yourself and explain why you are writing this letter
  2. Share what you learned about Chanie, residential schools, and Secret Path over the course of watching these videos.
  3. Share your personal reaction to Chanie’s story and those of many Indigenous children who attended residential schools.
  4. Finish with a short closing paragraph to thank the Wenjacks for taking the time to read the letter.

Letters can be sent to:        Pearl and Daisy Wenjack

                                     c/o Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund

                                     PO Box 749  Ohsweken, ON  N0A 1M0

                                                                                   

Source: https://www.downiewenjack.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/14156-DW-Fund-Educator-Guide-C2-WEB-FA2.pdf June 2020

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