September 30th, 2020

9/30/2020

Today was ORANGE SHIRT DAY where we lean about residential schools and the survivors of them. We spread the message that EVERY CHILD MATTERS and the discrimination, racism and bulling are not okay!

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5.) POST A RESPONSE:

Watch the two videos posted below and combing information as well as your thinking!
Paragraph topic: Orange Shirt Day (THINK ABOUTS - What is it? Why was it created? What do we have it? What happened? etc)
LEARNING INTENTION:
I can write a paragraph explaining what ORANGE SHIRT DAY is and why it is important to learn about residential schools and the messages this day re-enforces.
The paragraph will have information, but will be a personal writing piece as you are adding in why you think it is importnat and what it means to you. (You can use this writing for your Alphabiograohy)

SUCCESS CRITERIA:
1.) Paragraph format (intro, body (supporting sentences), and conclusion
2.) In your body/supporting sentences, use some transition words like - For example, To illustrate, In addition to, etc.
3.) Include at least 3 supporting details from what you wrote .
4.) Check for the givens/conventions (spelling, capitals, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure).
5.) Read at least one other paragraph and give your classmate a few things to improve on based on the above criteria.
6.) Edit/revise your original paragraph based on peer feedback or a self-assessment.

39 Comments

Rhea

9/30/2020 04:40:39 pm

First

Jeffrey

9/30/2020 05:09:08 pm

second

Kai

9/30/2020 05:09:22 pm

Second

9/30/2020 05:30:38 pm

Not 2nd!

Ryan

9/30/2020 05:40:36 pm

fourth

9/30/2020 05:45:55 pm

third

9/30/2020 05:50:06 pm

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Bob

9/30/2020 05:51:18 pm

haha!

9/30/2020 05:52:18 pm

you don't know because you need to refresh the page to see the comment right? XD

9/30/2020 06:06:58 pm

9/30/2020 06:22:32 pm

haha

9/30/2020 06:51:08 pm

Every child matters. Each year on September 30th, the citizens of Canada wear orange shirts to remember the children who were forced to go to residential schools. We wear orange shirts to honor Phyllis Webstad's tale. She was with her granny at the local store. Her granny bought her a new orange shirt. Phyllis was so proud about his that she swore to herself that she would only wear it on the day school started. Unfortunately, the school was not what she expected. The nuns were cruel and they took her new orange shirt away.

We show our sorry for them by learning their culture. this way, no matter what happens to them, their culture will live on. Orange shirts are just a symbol to them that we are sorry for what our ancestors did to them. In return, we will honor their legacy and carry their culture though us.

9/30/2020 07:08:36 pm

Each September 30th, we wear orange shirts to remember people who had to go to residential schools. One of the people that had to go to residential schools named Phyllis Webstad wrote the book The Orange Shirt Story which is basically her life at the residential schools. The residential school was not what Phyllis expected. They took away her clothes and gave her new ones. They cut her hair and stripped her from her culture. We wear orange shirts to honor everyone who went to residential schools and to show that we believe every child should be treated equally and fairly.

9/30/2020 07:14:16 pm

Hi Kai,
Nice piece of writing! One thing I would suggest is to write about why it is important to learn about residential schools. Great work!

10/1/2020 07:09:56 am

Thanks Rhea!

9/30/2020 07:11:53 pm

Many Indigenous Peoples in Canada had faced hardships like being forced to participate in residential schools. Kids were taken away from their family and had been forced to forget their culture, and parents had to deal with racial offenses wherever they went. Orange Shirt Day is a day to honour the First Peoples and to acknowledge the reconciliation between the First Peoples and the explorers from foreign countries. This day of recognition was started by an Indigenous person named Phyllis Webstad. When she was six years old, her granny bought a shiny orange shirt for Phyllis for her first day of school in the residential schools. When she arrived at the school, her new orange shirt was stripped off, and she never got to wear it again. It is important to learn about residential school because we will learn to honour and recognize Indigenous Peoples more and understand what horrible experiences they had endured. We will also learn to not make these offensive mistakes in our life. In return, we wear an orange shirt on September 30 in remembrance of the residential schools.

9/30/2020 07:57:12 pm

Honestly, this is a great piece of work. I would change it to "forget [about] their culture". I don't think i is actually possible to forget a culture. Only about it. Good work though!

9/30/2020 08:01:51 pm

Thanks!

9/30/2020 08:15:12 pm

Many Indigenous Peoples in Canada had faced hardships like being forced to participate in residential schools. Kids were taken away from their family and had been forced to forget about their culture, and parents had to deal with racial offenses wherever they went. Orange Shirt Day is a day to honour the First Peoples and to acknowledge the reconciliation between the First Peoples and the explorers from foreign countries. This day of recognition was started by an Indigenous person named Phyllis Webstad. When she was six years old, her granny bought a shiny orange shirt for Phyllis for her first day of school in the residential schools. When she arrived at the school, her new orange shirt was stripped off, and she never got to wear it again. It is important to learn about residential school because we will learn to honour and recognize Indigenous Peoples more and understand what horrible experiences they had endured. We will also learn to not make these offensive mistakes in our life. In return, we wear an orange shirt on September 30 in remembrance of the residential schools.

Gabriel

9/30/2020 07:24:39 pm

Orange Shirt Day is to remember those kids who has suffered or passed away in residential school. So each year, we would celebrate Orange Shirt Day on September 30th.
The story of Phyllis Webstad is about when she has to go to residential school. One day, Phyllis' granny had bought her a brand new orange shirt she has loved. The day she went to school, she thought it would be a great thing t wear her brand new shirt to school! But nuns in the school had took her shirt away and cut her hair. Phyllis was mad that they took away their shirt, but the nuns just didn't care and ignored her.
As you see they were treated very poorly so we had to celebrate their culture of those kids who has passed away and suffered through by wearing an orange shirt day on September 30th.
#EveryChildMatters

9/30/2020 07:55:14 pm

(Reminder) Kids is plural so it use have, not has. Great paragraph though!

9/30/2020 08:02:17 pm

Ok thanks Jeffery.

Jason

9/30/2020 07:53:12 pm

#Everychildsmatter

9/30/2020 07:58:32 pm

Jason, this is not even a paragraph...

Amrita

9/30/2020 08:04:20 pm

Hi, Mr. Fisher I am too busy working on my collage, can I do the Post a Response tomorrow?

Mr. Fisher

9/30/2020 08:28:50 pm

@Amrita- Yes that is fine:)

Matthew

9/30/2020 08:31:21 pm

Orange shirt day is to honor indigenous people that went to residential school. The story was about a girl named Phyllis Webstad. She wanted to go to school. Her granny bought her a orange shirt, but when she got there, people at the school took her shirt and cut her hail till it was all short. She wasn’t happy, she wanted to see her granny.
This was what happed to her and that’s why we always wear orange on September 30.

10/1/2020 07:21:54 am

Hi Matthew. This is a good paragraph but I don't think it explains what orange shirt day is about. Maybe add more info in next time.

Cindy

9/30/2020 08:39:17 pm

Orange shirt day is there to remind us that some of the First Peoples were forced to go to residential schools as kids, they were forced to do things they really did not want to.
Phyllis Webstad was one of the children who went to the residential schools, on September 30th, her granny had bought her a orange t-shirt. She wore it on her first day, and then the nuns took it away from her. She was very upset about it. She once just spoke in her own language and the nuns had taken her into the punishment room, and they burned her hands with smoking hot coal. The First Peoples who went to these schools were treated very poorly by the nuns. So now we wear orange shirts on September 30th to show that every child matters, and that their culture shouldn’t be forgotten just because some nuns said so.

9/30/2020 08:48:21 pm

Hi Cindy, the burning the children hands was true but like, I don't think it said that she was burned by coal in Phyllis' story.

9/30/2020 08:52:56 pm

Orange shirt day is celebrated on September 30th. It is created to celebrate "all kids matter".

When the British discovered the lands, they forced the fist nations families to take all the children away from their families to learn things that the government wants them to learn. It is unfair to all children, but they have to do it.

This day is called orange shirt day because the day is based on one story. There was a girl named Phyllis who was really excited about going to school because she is a little lonely because there is no kids that she can play with. At the age of 6, she was finally allowed to go to the residential school. But when she got there, she realized that school was not what she had imagined. She reallized the second the people took away phyllis's new orange shirt. She spent 300 nights at the place and survived the school, unlike many others.

That is why it is called orange shirt day. So we celebrate this day today for the first nations that still survided to this day, and to remember all that have died.

9/30/2020 10:27:51 pm

I think this paragraph is well spaced and well written. One thing I would note is that "to celebrate "all kids matter" is a little hard to say. I think "to celebrate the phrase "all kids matter" would be a little better.

Annisa

9/30/2020 09:03:33 pm

The story of Phyllis Webstad is one that should be more widely known, by different people in different places. On September 30th, we wear orange shirts to show support to the First Peoples and Phyllis, who had her orange shirt taken from her on her first day at the residential schools. The shirt, bought by her granny, was brand-new and was never to been seen by her again. During the time of residential schools, many children died and many others were injured and hurt, both mentally, spiritually, and physically. Orange Shirt Day is an important day to recognize our mistakes of the past and move towards reconciliation, and to honour the First Peoples. It is also important that we remember our history and to make sure that we never make the same mistakes in the future again.

Danise

9/30/2020 09:26:45 pm

@Mr.Fisher. I am busy today and probably tomorrow too. Can I do my PAR tomorrow at school and probably do the Thursday PAR on Friday. Thx.

Colleen

9/30/2020 10:23:15 pm

On November 30th people wear oranges shirts to pay respects to the people who had to go to residential schools. We need to remember orange shirt day because we need to remember the people who died while at the school and the people who had to stay at the residential schools for a very long time. The orange shirt day story is about a girl who was sad because she didn’t have anyone to play with. But when she turned 6 years old she was allowed to go to a residential school. She was exited and her granny even bought her a grand new orange shirt. But when she got to the school they were actually very bad and mistreated her along with many other kids.

9/30/2020 10:24:10 pm

Orange Shirt Day was created to remember those who were forced to go to residential schools. In a residential school, students would be separated from their parents, malnourished and treated harshly. Many of the students that went there would be traumatized for a long time. Orange shirt day was named because of a specific person named Phyllis Webstad. Before her first day of school, her grandmother bought her a new orange shirt. On the first day of school, she wore her shirt proudly and felt good going into the residential school, only to have it be taken away and never seen again. She was devasted by this, after the orange shirt was taken away she didn’t want to stay at the residential school anymore, but she was forced to endure it for another three hundred and thirty days. I think it is important for us to remember the suffering First Nations people endured in residential schools so that we can better reconcile with them and forge a better relationship later on.

10/1/2020 04:37:42 pm

Orange Shirt Day is a day to remember the people who are pull in residential schools and Phyllis Webstand is the person who got the orange shirt taken and never see it again. People in residential schools got injured or even deaths because of the people inside abusing the kids. On September 30th, today, is the day we support and remember the survivor in residential school. Orange Shirt Day is a day to recognize or mistake and hope no one will repeat it ever in the future.

10/1/2020 04:41:52 pm

Yesterday was Orange Shirt day and it was celebrated by everyone wearing a orange shirt yesterday.
Until 1996, residential schools were open for all First Nations students to be forced to go to school. These residential schools were horrible, the students were forced to do everything their nuns told them. They were given horrible food to eat and if they didn’t want to eat it they would starve. They were also told to cut their beautiful long hair into very short hair. This day is about a girl named Phyllis Webstad . Before going to school Phyllis’s grandmother bought her an orange shirt to wear to school. When she got to school the nuns took her orange shirt away and gave her a black dress that everyone wore like her. In 1996, the last residential school in Saskatchewan closed and the residential school students were free to be themselves.
Although a lot of children have died in that terrible school, we remember this day by wearing an orange shirt.

Waylon

10/17/2020 12:55:35 pm

Every year on September 30th, we wear orange shirts to remember the children who suffered or died from the residential schools. Many indigenous children were forced to attend the schools, including a girl named Phyllis Webstad. Her grandma had bought her an orange shirt for her, and when she proudly wore it to the residential school, the mean nuns took it away from her and forced her to wear a black dress like everyone else did. They were given horrible food and it was the only things they were given. Their hair was also cut short. The conditions were horrid.
After a few years the federal government admitted that the indigenous people were wronged, and they ordered all residential schools to be closed. In 1996, the last residential school in Saskatchewan closed, and the indigenous children were freed.
Although many people suffered from the residential schools, we remember this day by wearing an orange shirt.

September 30th, 2020

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