Multiple Perspectives
Students practise looking at historical events from multiple perspectives, learning that the same event can be understood very differently depending on whose story is being told.
Key Questions
- 1How does the story of contact look different from a First Nations perspective?
- 2Why is it important to hear more than one side of a story?
- 3Whose voices have been left out of the history books?
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