Teacher Guide For Three Feathers

Use this guide alongside Three Feathers to explore themes of restorative justice, healing, community care, and resilience with your students. Written by Rotinonhsón:ni (Kanien’kehá:ka) educator Jerica Fraser, the Teacher Guide for Three Feathers offers: an inquiry approach to engage learners before, during, and after reading suggested activities, questions, and ideas support for discussing the importance of diverse and authentic representation in visual storytelling considerations for trauma-informed practices when approaching sensitive topics ways to practise cultural appreciation and provides context when introducing Indigenous stories respectful protocols for engaging with Indigenous histories, teachings, and stories a balanced approach to stories of Indigenous trauma with stories of Indigenous joy and healing These approachable and engaging activities are most appropriate for grades 7–12. This guide can be used in a range of subject areas including English language arts, visual art, social studies, and history.

Three young men -- Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert -- have vandalized their community. They are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing process. There, the young men learn to take responsibility for their actions and acquire the humility required to return home. But will they be forgiven for what they have done? Three Feathers explores the power and grace of restorative justice in one Northern Indigenous community and the cultural legacy that can empower future generations.

Sharon Garlough Brown's novel Feathers of Hope follows Wren Crawford and her great-aunt, Katherine Rhodes, companions in sorrow and hope. As Katherine prepares to retire as the director of the New Hope Retreat Center, she faces personal and professional challenges while Wren takes the next step in her journey with depression by offering compassionate care to the residents of the nursing home where she now works. This eight-week study guide offers an opportunity to reflect on how the experiences of the characters in the novel resonate with your own experience. Daily Scripture readings and reflection questions are accompanied by an invitation to the practice of visio divina (meditating on art) through weekly prompts related to works by Vincent van Gogh. With simple spiritual practices, this guide provides a space for individuals and groups to process Katherine's retreat teaching as well as the themes of Feathers of Hope.

A modern fable about some peacocks and swans who allow the fear of their differences to become so great that they end up destroying each other.

A Study Guide for Horacio Quiroga's "The Feather Pillow," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.