At the end of the course, you will have an opportunity to demonstrate your learning by creating a submission for the “Imagine Canada” contest. In addition, you will write an essay to support your submission.
The culminating project is worth 20% of your course mark.
Read and follow the directions carefully. Completing course tasks and keeping up to date with your notebook will help you be successful.
You have learned about the need for Canada to work towards reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in order to improve relationships and create a better future for everyone. What this future could hold has been explored by the TRC, communities, youth, and organizations across the country. Now it is your turn to design a submission about the future Canada you imagine. For this Assessment, you will create a submission that demonstrates your knowledge of what you have learned throughout the course as well as your understanding of essay structure.
Using the themes of this course (identity, relationships, sovereignty, and reconciliation) as a guide, what does your vision for Canada look like if your local community embraced and worked towards reconciliation with Indigenous peoples?
There are five tasks in this assessment:
Using ideas from the course, as well as any other ideas you can come up with, generate a list of possible ways you can communicate your responses to these questions to an audience.
Once you have finished brainstorming and narrowing down your focus, it’s time to create your submission. When researching, be sure to use sources from this course, as well as any additional reputable outside sources that provide supporting evidence that can be used to support your submission and your paragraphs.
Be sure that all citations are made using proper MLA formatting. All of the sources cited in your essay and/or submission should be included in a separate document headed “Works Cited.”
Introduction
Paragraph 1: How does your submission reflect the changes you hope to see in your local community?
Paragraph 2: How does your submission show the local Indigenous community’s voices being heard and needs being met?
Paragraph 3: What actions does your submission aim to take in fighting for equity and the betterment of the lives of Indigenous peoples?
Paragraph 4: What learnings from this course are reflected in your community actions for your submission?
Conclusion
Review and revise your essay and Works Cited list.
Once you have reviewed and revised your essay and your Works Cited page, create final copies of both and hand in your submission, essay and works cited page for assessment.
Review the rubric to better understand how your work will be assessed.