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Margaret Pokiak-FentonA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these questions or activities to help gauge students’ familiarity with and spark their interest in the context of the work, giving them an entry point into the text itself.
Short Answer
1. What were the residential schools in the US and Canada? What purpose did they serve? What effect did they have on Indigenous Nations and their people? Consider multiple levels of “people”: community, family, and individual.
Teaching Suggestion: Use student discussion and exploration of this text to introduce all three of the text’s themes—especially The Intimate and Impersonal Dimensions of Colonialism. Understanding the global versus local and impersonal versus personal impacts of colonialism is essential for students to understand this text and the world around them.