ENL1W Unit 3: Storywork

What can stories by First Nations, Métis and Inuit creators teach us about relationships, land, identity and truth? Students learn respectful listening, view free short films, read public domain poetry by E. Pauline Johnson and explore contemporary texts chosen from board-approved resources.

Assessment of learning: a comparison of two texts by First Nations, Métis or Inuit creators from different times or contexts, with a reflective response and rubric. Includes guidance on working respectfully with Indigenous texts.

Lessons

1. Why Stories Matter
2. The Listening Way
3. Stories Without Words
4. Who Holds the Camera?
5. The Corn Husker
6. The Song My Paddle Sings
7. Land and Relationship Maps
8. Contemporary Voices (2 classes)
9. Language Lives
10. Truth and Resilience
11. Comparison Workshop (2 classes)
12. Sharing Circle

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview, a list of suggested contemporary texts, and the summative task and rubric

Built for the 2023 Ontario Grade 9 English curriculum (ENL1W, de-streamed), and easy to adapt for any Grade 9 English class.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.