Grade 8 · Core French · Unit 9 of 9
Culture and respect
Appropriation and plagiarism
What your child practises
The ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism: crediting sources and learning from cultures respectfully.
BC Curriculum learning standard: Ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
You find a great photo online for your project. What do you do?
- Cut off the name
- Say you took it
- Check who owns it and credit them
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Check who owns it and credit them
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, story, song or image without permission or context in a way that may misrepresent the people it comes from. Plagiarism is passing off someone else's work as your own.
Question 2
Which is plagiarism?
- Quoting a sentence and naming the author
- Copying a paragraph from a website and calling it yours
- Writing a summary in your own words with a source
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Copying a paragraph from a website and calling it yours
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, story, song or image without permission or context in a way that may misrepresent the people it comes from. Plagiarism is passing off someone else's work as your own.
Question 3
You use a poem written by a classmate in your own project. What should you do?
- Say you wrote it
- Ask permission and say who wrote it
- Change the title only
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Ask permission and say who wrote it
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, story, song or image without permission or context in a way that may misrepresent the people it comes from. Plagiarism is passing off someone else's work as your own.
Question 4
Why can a costume of a culture's traditional clothing hurt people?
- It is hard to wash
- It is too expensive
- It can reduce something meaningful to a joke
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It can reduce something meaningful to a joke
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, story, song or image without permission or context in a way that may misrepresent the people it comes from. Plagiarism is passing off someone else's work as your own.
Question 5
Which of these is a source you can list?
- A rumour
- A book, a website or an interview
- A guess
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A book, a website or an interview
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, story, song or image without permission or context in a way that may misrepresent the people it comes from. Plagiarism is passing off someone else's work as your own.
Question 6
Why is it important to name the person or community who taught you a story?
- It respects them and shows where the knowledge comes from
- It makes your story longer
- It keeps the story secret
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It respects them and shows where the knowledge comes from
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, story, song or image without permission or context in a way that may misrepresent the people it comes from. Plagiarism is passing off someone else's work as your own.