With respect to TRB Standard 6, while researching this paper I learned how I could better democratize my classroom by using this accessible form of literature to include all of my students in a critical literacy experience. When I began the research for this paper I was teaching students with a broad range of English levels and very different life experiences. I learned that using more accessible text, does not mean lowering the complexity of the meaning making process, but rather changes and even deepens it. In addition, because graphic novels are often published by small, independent publishers, they can “embrace the difficult social and political issues
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TRB Standard 6 requires educators to examine how they will teach relevant curricula in the Canadian, Aboriginal and global context. In writing this evidence piece, I learned that there are many perspectives from which to examine the significance of Canada’s past, and that literature is a powerful lens through which to focus. In it’s elaborations on the curricular competencies, BC’s social studies 10-draft curriculum asks, “To what extent has Canada’s Multiculturalism Policy been successfully implemented?” (BC, 2017b). Through the examination of Eden Robinson’s literary work, in this paper I explain why “many within Canada’s Aboriginal communities worry that the blanket of multiculturalism cast across all of Canada’s minority groups works to trivialize and deflect from
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