{"id":74515,"date":"2020-06-26T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=74515"},"modified":"2020-06-26T12:52:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:52:48","slug":"writing-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/whats-new\/writing-history\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Writing\u2019 history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Reading<\/h5>\n<h2>Goals<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>read a nonfiction article and determine important information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Learning Task<\/h2>\n<p>This week we learned about how some think the name of the city of Kitchener should be changed: <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/whats-new\/whats-in-a-name\/\">What\u2019s In A Name?<\/a> Locally, there continues to be controversy around how to honour imperfect historical figures.<\/p>\n<p>Please read, <a href=\"https:\/\/kitchener.ctvnews.ca\/red-paint-to-remain-on-vandalized-sir-john-a-macdonald-statue-1.4996237?cache=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Paint To Remain On Vandalized Sir John A. Macdonald Statue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider as you are reading:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does the decision to keep the red paint on the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald continues the conversation about his place in Canadian history?<\/li>\n<li>Do you feel that the addition of the red paint accurately represents a more fulsome representation of Sir John A. Macdonald?<\/li>\n<li>Do you feel the statue should remain with the red paint, or be removed entirely?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we learned about how some think the name of the city of Kitchener should be changed: <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/whats-new\/whats-in-a-name\/\">What\u2019s In A Name?<\/a> Locally, there continues to be controversy around how to honour imperfect historical figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72776,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74515\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}