The Secret Path: An Interpretation AssignmentObjective: Your primary goal is to understand the experience that many First Nations youths had when they were taken from their homes and sent to residential schools. Why were they taken from their homes? How were they treated in the residential schools? What were the long term impacts? Consider these questions as you work through the assignment.

Specifically, you need to choose 10 different images/pages from the graphic novel and create some text for that image/page. The text needs to tell both the story of Channie Wenjack and the typical experience of all aboriginal youths who were taken from their homes. In total, each entry should be between 4 – 6 sentences long.

Here is a level 3 example:Based on pg 2 (the railway track):

Channie Wenjack was taken from his home when he was about 12 years old. He was taken by train, miles and miles away to a far off residential school.

Residential schools were government sponsored schools where approximately 150,000 first nations children were taken in the early 20th century. They were taken against their will and most had very bad experiences.

You will have 3 work periods to complete this task. You may work with a partner, but everybody must contribute to the task. Please indicate which pages/images you are doing. If you are working in a group of 3, you need to do 12 pages/images in total. You should start by silently reading the story called, “The Lonely Death of Channie Wenjack.” Then you should do a bit more research on Residential School s in Canada. Finally, get to work. Please be gentle with the books.

Meh... (L1) Good start... (L2) Well Done! (L3) AMAZING! (L4) Not quite

sure what you were doing this whole time.

Incomplete!

Some research has been done.

Storytelling and facts don’t always match, or flow together.

Research has been done.

Clear and concise writing tells a coherent story and accurately provides factual information about the residential school system in Canada.

A lot of research done!

Clear, concise and sophisticated writing tells the story of Channie Wenjack and accurately provides detailed factual information about the residential school system in Canada.