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 Exploration of Literary Connections: Canadian Aboriginal Literature  |||| **Broad goals to which this lesson contributes:** Introduction to the play written by a Native Canadian writer || To understand the play's importance in the Canadian literature. To understand the characteristics of a play: elements of literary form || Press reviews of the staging of the play ( by Susan Vanetta Mason and by Robyn Israel) ||
 * **Lesson Plan** ||
 * **Day: 2** |||| **Class/Subject:** English ENG3U || **Topic:** Introduction to The Rez Sisters by Thomson Highway Part2 ||
 * **Topic and focus of this lesson:**
 * **Specific outcomes for this lesson:** To familiarize students with the author of the play.
 * **Materials:** The Rez Sisters by Thomson Highway
 * **Agenda:**
 * 1) Thomson Highway's biography (pgs VI-IX)
 * 2) Play's reviews from the press.
 * 3) The play in the context of Canadian literature.
 * 4) Aboriginal People in the Canadian multicultural context.
 * 5) Multiculturalism among the Aboriginal People: First Nations, Metis, Innuit (diversity of languages and cultures)
 * 6) Reading of the play: Production Notes, Cast of Characters, Act 1 (up to pg 9) ||