Reading

Easter Island is a pacific island off the coast of Chile known for its human figure stone monoliths called moais. These iconic human-like figures are over a thousand years old.

Goals:

  • think critically about non-fiction text and respond to related questions
  • make personal connections to information

The Learning Task:

Read the following article Easter Island Inhabitants Turn to Tradition to Tackle Virus Troubles and think about how the practice of ‘Tapu’ might help our society right now? What are other forms of self-care that you are aware of in other cultures? How are you caring for yourself and your family during this time of COVID19?

Create a 3-2-1 list and share with someone in person or via technology:

3 things that you learned from your reading
2 things that you found interesting from your reading and would like to pursue learning about
1 question that came up while you were reading

Please read the following journal entry shared by a WRDSB intermediate student:

“You know sometimes I wonder if this pandemic will end up in the history books, like the Spanish Flu? Pandemic, or even any other epidemic? Will people just forget about it? Once it’s all over, will we just walk away, pretending nothing happened?”

Daily! Don’t forget to engage with your Writer’s Notebook: Creating a Place for Reflection

Note: please see the information in this lesson for guidance.

If you would like to share your thinking, thoughts and wonderings with other students in the Waterloo Region District School Board as above, please share your journal entry using this form. Your entry may be chosen to share within our system. This is NOT a requirement and it is your personal choice to share.

If you are interested: listen to author Jacqueline Woodson read her award-winning novel, “Brown Girl Dreaming”. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to listen to an author read their work!