How many voices, ceremonies, and acts of remembrance remake urban Indigenous belonging
Students close the Grade 12 Identity and Belonging unit by reading an original composition about a young person helping gather a community story in Oakland. They then study a clearly labeled classroom paraphrase and close reading of Tommy Orange's There There (2018; ISBN 9780525436146), considering urban Indigenous identity, ceremony, erasure, and the many voices that challenge a single story of belonging. The lesson returns to the essential question: How do we make a self and a sense of belonging in a world that keeps changing?
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