Description
This kit contains 27 resources and includes:
18 children’s books – 16 bilingual in English and Michif, complete with an audio CD (or audio download link) with the narrations in both languages, and three English only children’s books.
4 DVDs – 3 made from books, 1 Métis dance DVD
1 series of 5 comics based on Métis folklore
1 teacher guidebook; 7 themes with lesson plans for each including: In The Beginning; Who are the Métis?; Métis Values – Good Medicine; Storytelling, Entertainment, and Lessons; Lifestyles in Transition; Memorable Historic Figures; and Métis Dance
NEW TITLES INCLUDE: Road to La Prairie Ronde, The Métis Alphabet Colouring Book, Road Allowance Kitten: Broken Promises, Kohkom’s Babushka, and The Big Tease: A Story of Eliza Delorme and her Cousin Édouard Beaupré, the Willow Bunch Giant!
Bringing Métis Children’s Literature to Life Guidebook (Second Edition)
- Written by renowned Métis educator, Wilfred Burton.
- Supports teaching about the Métis and utilize strategies that foster and promote literacy development (listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, and representing).
- Brings traditional and contemporary Métis culture to life.
The resource guide is available for free, online at www.metismuseum.ca.
This kit contains all of the resources used in the Bringing Métis Children’s Literature to Life: Teacher Guidebook for GDI Publications, except four out-of-print resources: Métis Camp Circle, The Voyageurs: Forefathers of the Métis Nation, Sasquatch Exterminator, and Bulrush Helps the Pond, as well as the Medicines to Help Us Study Prints.
