This is a lesson I taught in my first 3 week practicum that really exemplified the First People’s Principles of Learning, as well as standard 9, because this story highlighted the Inuit culture and beliefs.
The first and most practical thing I learned in order to get this book was because I was at an independent school so I could not use the DLC. I had to use the public library to get this book and I learned that books in the children’s section in the library which have Indigenous stories as well as an Indigenous author get a special sticker! I will definitely be utilizing this system in the future to identify Indigenous centered stories from a variety of different areas like this one. **Would like to word this better
This story was a good resource as well as it provided terminology as well as pronunciation of Inuit words at the back. The book also included Maika Harper’s story and her experience as an Inuit person. I chose this story because I am very interested in creation myths and this book focused on the Inuit idea of how animals were created.
In this lesson students learned more about the Inuit culture as we read through the book together as a class, before they were expected to creatively engage with the story. Students were able to use what they learned from reading the book to create their own hybrid animal as well as write a short story about it. This was one of my favourite lessons because students really enjoyed this story and were very engaged with creating as well as writing about their hybrids.