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This represents my journey from my past to my present. Moving from the prairies to the coast, the names on and around the bird are close family, and the ones in the field are the ones who had an impact or influence on me when I was younger.

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Our Responsibility - feeling overwhelmed by reading the 9 professional standards, the responsibility is ours to create the change that is needed.

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I respectfully acknowledge that the land I live, play, and work on is on the Unceded Traditional Territory of the K’ómoks First Nation, the traditional keepers of this land. I appreciate the natural beauty that envelops this land. As my family recently moved to this area, I need to take responsibility for learning about the rich history of the K’ómoks First Nation. When on the land, I internalize how I respectfully acknowledge the ancestors of this land, by stating that I come in peace meaning no harm to the people and this land.

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To be honest I don't know a lot of my family's history. To start, I know that my great grandparents on my Dad's side moved from Prussia and purchased farmland in eastern Saskatchewan, 7 miles away from a small town called Stornaway. I am not close with my parents, I would be considered the black sheep of the family. So there is a lot of family history that I would love to know about, unfortunately given the current circumstances I don't think that will happen.

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Prussia, German Preussen, Polish Prusy, in European history, any of certain areas of eastern and central Europe, respectively (1) the land of the Prussians on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea, which came under Polish and German rule in the Middle Ages, (2) the kingdom ruled from 1701 by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, including Prussia and Brandenburg, with Berlin as its capital, which seized much of northern Germany and western Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries and united Germany under its leadership in 1871, and (3) the Land (state) created after the fall of the Hohenzollerns in 1918, which included most of their former kingdom and which was abolished by the Allies in 1947 as part of the political reorganization of Germany after its defeat in World War II.

The original Prussians, mainly hunters and cattle breeders, spoke a language belonging to the Baltic group of the Indo-European language family. These early Prussians were related to the Latvians and Lithuanians and lived in tribes in the then heavily forested region between the lower Vistula and Neman rivers. Their social organization was loose-although some elements of stratified society can be traced-and they were pagans. Early attempts to convert the Prussians to Christianity-notably those made by Saint Adalbert and Saint Bruno of Querfurt at the turn of the 11th century-were unsuccessful. In the 13th century, however, the Prussians were conquered and Christianized by the German-speaking knights of the Teutonic Order, which had been awarded Prussian lands by the Polish duke Conrad of Mazovia for help against Prussian incursions. The Prussian countryside was subdued, castles were built for German nobility, and many German peasants were settled there to farm the land. By the middle of the 14th century, the majority of the inhabitants of Prussia were German-speaking, though the Old Prussian language did not die out until the 17th century. By the 17th century the indigenous population was thoroughly assimilated.

The latter part of the 14th century was characterized in eastern Europe by a strong reaction among Slavs and Balts against the Germans. Poland and Lithuania formed their first dynastic union in 1386 and, in the 15th century, defeated the Teutonic Knights in a series of wars. By the Second Treaty of Toruń (1466) the Polish crown acquired direct sovereignty over the Teutonic Order's former possessions to the west of the lower Vistula River, together with the Kulmerland (or Chełmno district) and Ermland (Warmia) to the east; and that part of Prussia east of the Vistula River (i.e., East Prussia) was left to the order only on condition that the grand, or high, master should hold it as fief of the Polish crown. The lands along the Vistula, under Polish sovereignty, became known as Royal Prussia; thus a wedge of predominantly Polish-speaking territory came to be consolidated between German-speaking East Prussia and the German Reich to the west.

Ducal Prussia and the Kingdom of Prussia, to 1786

The Teutonic Order's last grand master in Prussia, Albert of Hohenzollern, became a Lutheran and, in 1525, secularized his fief, which he transformed into a duchy for himself. Thereafter until 1701 this territory (i.e., East Prussia) was known as Ducal Prussia. When Albert's son and successor, Albert Frederick, died sonless in 1618, the duchy passed to his eldest daughter's husband, the Hohenzollern elector of Brandenburg, John Sigismund.

The union of Ducal Prussia with Brandenburg was fundamental to the rise of the Hohenzollern monarchy to the rank of a great power in Europe. John Sigismund's grandson Frederick William of Brandenburg, the Great Elector (reigned 1640-88), obtained by military intervention in the Swedish-Polish War of 1655-60 and by diplomacy at the Peace of Oliva (1660) the ending of Poland's suzerainty over Ducal Prussia. This made the Hohenzollerns sovereign over Ducal Prussia, whereas Brandenburg and their other German territories were still nominally parts of the Reich under the theoretical suzerainty of the Holy Roman emperor. Frederick William was also able to set up a centralized administration in Prussia and to wrest control of the duchy's financial resources from the nobility.

The most significant achievement of the Great Elector's son Frederick (reigned 1688-1713) was to secure the royal dignity for himself as Frederick I, king in Prussia, crowning himself at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) on January 18, 1701. Thereafter, the other Hohenzollern possessions, though theoretically remaining within the German Reich and under the ultimate overlordship of the Holy Roman emperor, soon came to be treated in practice rather as belonging to the Prussian kingdom than as distinct from it.

Frederick I's son Frederick William I began his reign in 1713 shortly before the conclusion of the Treaty of Utrecht, which assigned to him not only the so-called Upper Quarter of Geldern on the Meuse River but also the principality of Neuchâtel and Valengin on the border of France and Switzerland. Through participation in the Second Northern War, he further acquired much of western Pomerania (1720).

Frederick William I endowed the Prussian state with its military and bureaucratic character. He raised the army to 80,000 men (equivalent to 4 percent of the population) and geared the whole organization of the state to the military machine. One half of his army consisted of hired foreigners. The other half was recruited from the king's own subjects on the basis of the "canton system," which made all young men of the lower classes-mostly peasants-liable for military service. While the upper bourgeoisie was exempted from military service, the nobles were under a moral obligation, which the king repeatedly emphasized, to serve in the officers' corps.

The close coordination of military, financial, and economic affairs was complemented by Frederick William I's reorganization of the administrative system, and he came to control the whole life of the state. His autocratic temperament and his fanatical addiction to work found expression in complete absolutism. To his son and successor, Frederick II (the Great), he left the best-trained army in Europe, a financial reserve of 8,000,000 thalers, productive domains, provinces developed through large-scale colonization (particularly East Prussia), and a hardworking, thrifty, conscientious bureaucracy.

Frederick II (reigned 1740-86) put the newly realized strength of the Prussian state at the service of an ambitious but risky foreign policy. Hailed by Voltaire as "the philosopher king" personifying the Enlightenment and its ideal of peace, Frederick astonished Europe within seven months of his accession to the throne by invading Silesia in December 1740. This bold stroke precipitated the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Austro-Prussian Silesian Wars continued, with uneasy intermissions, until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763. Silesia, a rich province with many flourishing towns and an advanced economy, was an important acquisition for Prussia. Frederick's wars not only established his personal reputation as a military genius but also won recognition for Prussia as one of the Great Powers.

Besides Silesia, Frederick also acquired East Frisia on the North Sea coast, and later, at the First Partition of Poland in 1772, he obtained West Prussia, that is, Polish Royal Prussia, thus forming a territorial link between East (Ducal) Prussia and the rest of his domains to the west.

Frederick made no substantial changes in the administrative system as organized by his father, but he did effect improvements in the judicial and educational systems and in the promotion of the arts and sciences. The freedom of conscience that Frederick instituted was the product not merely of his own skeptical indifference to religious questions but also of a deliberate intention to bring the various churches together for the benefit of the state and to allow more scope to the large Roman Catholic minority of his subjects in relation both to the Protestant majority and to the Evangelical establishment.

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Prussia | History, Maps, Flag, & Definition

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Prussia, in European history, any of three historical areas of eastern and central Europe. It is most often associated with the kingdom ruled by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, which claimed much of northern Germany and western Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries and united Germany under its leadership in 1871.

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I also don't know about my mother's side, as I lost my grandpa when I was 5 or so. The only memory of my grandfather is that whenever we visited he always shook my hand. I was told later in life that I skated like him as I played hockey in the same small town that he lived and played hockey in. I lost my grandmother when I was in university and didn't yet have that interest in my roots, so I feel stories or information is lost to me. It was talking to my great uncle that mentioned that his family came from Whitby , England, and one day I would like to go and visit.

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Whitby, town (parish), borough of Scarborough, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northeastern England. It is situated at the mouth of the River Esk on the North Sea.

The old port town is clustered on the east side of the harbour where it breaches the forbidding cliff line. Opposite, on the West Cliff, Victorian seaside resort development took place. On the East Cliff, above the town, is an abbey founded as early as 656. The plowboy Caedmon, acclaimed as the first poet in the English language, died there in 680. Whitby prospered during the Middle Ages as a fishing port and was incorporated by the end of the 12th century. Herring has been its economic mainstay, and for a time it was an important whaling port. It has produced many fine sailors; the most famous among them was Captain James Cook, whose wooden ships built at Whitby took him on voyages around the world (1769-75). Whitby is also the setting for a significant portion of the classic horror novel (1897), written by Bram Stoker after a vacation visit to the town.

A range of local minerals have, in succession, also been of economic importance. In the 17th century the alum shales that outcrop on the cliffs nearby were burned with seaborne coal from Newcastle upon Tyne. Whitby ironstone was shipped to Tyneside before the discovery (in 1850) of the Cleveland ore field. Since the 1950s methane gas and deep-seated deposits of potash have been opened up in Eskdale, behind Whitby. The town serves an extensive, if thinly populated, farming area in Eskdale, set amid the North Yorkshire Moors. Its harbour and moorland surroundings attract many tourists. Pop. (2001) 13,594; (2011) 13,213.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Amy Tikkanen.

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Whitby, town (parish), borough of Scarborough, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northeastern England. It is situated at the mouth of the River Esk on the North Sea. The old port town is clustered on the east side of the harbour where it breaches the forbidding

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While working on an assignment I came across this website that has a lot of great information and one that I have bookmarked and will be returning to.

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tuwa akʷs χoχoɬ ʔa xʷ yiχmɛtɛt (ʔa) kʷʊms hɛhaw tʊms gɩǰɛ - "Care takers of the 'land of plenty' since time immemorial" For thousands of years indigenous people occupied the shoreline of

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I am grateful to the people who are today called K’omox, consisting of several formerly separated tribes that include the Pentlatch, Ieeksan (eye-ick-sun), Sasitla (sa-seet-la), Xa’xe (ha-hey) and Sathloot (sath-loot) people.  This gratitude is for the stewarding of this land to which I am a visitor since time immemorial.  It is a privilege to live, play, work and learn in this traditional territory.

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Hockey, our national sport, and the dream of many kids to score the game-winning goal in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. As more news comes out, it is hard to ignore that our beloved national sport is flawed and has a lot of work to do to repair the damage of sweeping alleged sexual assaults under the carpet. It will take time but there will be more stories like this coming out. This isn't anything new to a lot of people, people inside the hockey world. I played hockey and was a decent player, but as a teenager, I heard about the stories that went along with rookie iniations, and the way coaches treated players. I have a couple of kids who did play hockey and I even coached for a bit, but I am glad that they didn't take to it, as it would be hard for me to support an organization like this right now.

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An alleged group sexual assault involving hockey players may be going to court. Here’s what might happen next | CBC News

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News that five players from Canada’s 2018 World Junior team are expected to face sexual assault charges is raising questions about next steps in the high-profile case.

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Here are the results from the Class Profile survey.

I think I will do this activity at the beginning of the year, and maybe at the end of each term. I am glad that most students were respectful in their answers. The blank spots are students who chose not to answer that question. There is valuable information with this survey, and some of the results were very enlightening.

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I grew up in a small town and attended the Lutheran Church, was baptized, attended Sunday School, and that confirmation process. I attended a Catholic High School and was exposed to a more serious version of Christianity than I was used to. Throughout high school, I felt like an outsider looking in, I didn't focus too much on the differences between being Lutheran and the Catholic faith, but I felt different and couldn't talk to anyone about it. As I grew older I stopped going to Church, questioned my beliefs more often, and struggled with was I believed in. While attending University, I found out that a priest at the Catholic church that was tied to the school I attended was brought up on chargers. This had a major impact on my faith. Years later, I had the opportunity to visit Vatican City. This was a great experience, but it also hurt my faith. It was so over the top and the money that went into that place, I have a hard time thinking that it couldn't have been used in a more meaningful manner. It is worth billions of dollars and yet every service and mass, the church expects its money from attendees. This doesn't make sense to me.

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Reflection from the lesson - My Supports 

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Well, I completed the my supports lesson as I felt that it fit in well with my Careers class. Well there was a few surprises in the Class Profile, and I guessed there was a few surprises with completing this activity too. The My Supports activity showed that there are a few students who didn't have 5 supports, and those students would be the ones who are not just struggling in school, but with this phase in their life right now.

Connection with FPPL:

Learning involves generational roles and responsibilities.

Learning requires exploration of one‘s identity.

Connection with NCN/ Indigenous ways of knowing:

Learning involves generational roles and responsibilities

People help each other each day and every day. In NCN way of life there is a word meaning to help one another. This is a teaching taken very seriously.

Connection to the Pathways Focus Areas:

Community Approach

Culture and Language

Safe and Healthy Schools

Personal and Social Responsibility

Communication

How did it go? What did I learn?

The lesson went well, most of my students could fill the 8 areas with people who support them. There were a couple of students who struggled to fill in 3 people. I need to constantly remind myself that students struggle and should be there to support them as well as be their teacher.

What would I do differently?

I teach in an art room, so all I have are tables, which doesn't bode well for individual work with grade eights. I feel doing this individually like the lesson suggests would have been a better outcome, it was just students ended up comparing their lists, which then turned into complaining about some of there supports. Not all students did this, but some did. Everything else worked well except for that one piece.

I would also spend more time on the key concept and the big idea. I don't know the a lot about the Nuu-chah-nulth, so I felt like we should of spent more time on that aspect.

What will I do next?

I will browse the Pathway Lesson plans and pick another one to try.

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What did you learn?

The importance of trying, being respectful, and building relationships takes time, it is a deliberate process.

How will you keep the embers alight?

Either a person is growing or standing still, I prefer to grow with classes , books, or good professional development.

I have learned that making mistakes is how we learn. (I already knew this, I need to remind myself of it more often).

Now that I know that if I don't try new things I won't get better at it.

This is what I learned that I want everyone to know that building relationships takes time and I am thankful for working with this talented group of educators.

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Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony

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This story is not an invitation to replicate my father's actions or undertakings, nor is it an invitation to host a potlatch. Rather, it is an invitation to learn about the knowledge he received from his family and community. It is an invitation to reflect on how some of his approaches to learning and teaching might be applied in the classroom.

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Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies : An Act for Reconciliation and Anti-Racist Education

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Jo Chrona, Ts'msyen, and a member of Kitsumkalum First Nation, and European heritage, asks how can Indigenous knowledge systems inform teaching practices and enhance education? How do we create an education system that embodies an anti-racist approach and equity for all learners? This book is appropriate for all teache