Resilient Figures

Hi all,

We are going to start looking at specific resilient people and how they show the attributes we studied.

• How does Rick Hansen show resilience in this video? Is it easy to see the same sort of resilience in our own lives? 
• Starting resilience: 
• Read "The Only Wheelchair in Town" 
• As you read, write down any words you don't know on a post-it note.
• Review any unknown words.
• Re-read the story, this time underline all the words or phrases that suggest adversity or challenges (ex. "wimped out"), and all the words that suggest resilience (ex. "I owed her an apology"). 
• With your list of attributes in front of you, create a T-chart where you copy from the story adversity words on one side and resilience words on the other. Try reading between the lines to look for how attributes are expressed.
• Share your t-chart with your group. What others ones did they find? Hand this in.

Historical figure

Your next assignment will be to look at explorers stories of resilience to answer the sub-question “How did
explorers have resilience?” 
1. You should go on the website http://beyondthemap.ca/english/explorers.html
2. Please read over a couple of the explorers and think about what ones you want to do. You will pick the same one as your partner. 
Groupings: 
-Gabe C
-Sylvie, Tyson
-Kira, Nikki
-Marissa, Jade
-Megan, Gabe J
-Zach, Hudson
-Conor, Parker
-Kiera, Amber
-Landon, Ming

3. With your partner, research a resilient explorer. You need to identify at least three resilient attributes he or she embodied. Later we will interview community members who show resilience and connect them to our own stories and stories from the past. These historical figures will be the pool we can choose from to connect with community members and personal stories. After you submit your research, you will create a  page on a class Google site with this all compiled. Right now, you should write in your Explorers doc in you humanities assignment folder.