Subscribe

Grade 7 · Social Studies · Unit 6 of 9

Cultural Empowerment

Identity, language and traditions

What your child practises

Practises what empowerment and disempowerment mean in a cultural context in Canada between 1830 and 1920, using inquiry and geography skills.

Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: Cultural empowerment · empowerment and disempowerment in the cultural context in Canada, 1830-1920

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which statement about Indigenous peoples is accurate?

    • Nations never change
    • Many different Nations have their own languages and cultures
    • Indigenous cultures ended long ago
    • All Nations share one culture

  2. Question 2

    Which of these helped a group express its culture?

    • forbidding festivals
    • gathering to share songs and stories
    • banning meetings
    • closing community halls

  3. Question 3

    What does cultural empowerment mean?

    • building a railway
    • being free to keep and share your identity, language and traditions
    • winning an election
    • owning a business

  4. Question 4

    Disempowerment in culture means…

    • learning many languages freely
    • sharing food at a feast
    • visiting a museum
    • being stopped from practising your language and traditions

  5. Question 5

    What was the goal of the residential school system for Indigenous children?

    • to give them free vacations
    • to teach them the latest technology
    • to pay them wages
    • to separate them from their families and cultures

  6. Question 6

    What was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up to do?

    • to choose a prime minister
    • to start a new school
    • listen to survivors and share the truth about residential schools
    • to build railways

More Grade 7