Grade 9 · Core French · Unit 11 of 11
Culture and respect
Appropriation and plagiarism
What your child practises
The ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism: asking permission, giving credit and learning 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 paraphrase a paragraph from an article. What must you still do?
- Nothing, it's your idea now
- Name the article as a source
- Put quotation marks around every word
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Name the article as a source
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, theme, voice, image, knowledge, story, song or drama 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 an example of cultural appropriation?
- Using a community's sacred design on products you sell, without asking
- Learning a traditional dance from a teacher who invites you
- Reading a book written by someone from the community
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Using a community's sacred design on products you sell, without asking
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, theme, voice, image, knowledge, story, song or drama 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
Which is a respectful question to ask a community member?
- Would you be willing to share how you celebrate this tradition?
- Can I have your costume?
- Why is your tradition so strange?
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Would you be willing to share how you celebrate this tradition?
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, theme, voice, image, knowledge, story, song or drama 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
A friend lets you read their essay. Which action is plagiarism?
- Reading it for ideas, then writing your own
- Handing in parts of it as your own
- Asking how they organized it
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Handing in parts of it as your own
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, theme, voice, image, knowledge, story, song or drama 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
Why can wearing another culture's traditional clothing as a costume be hurtful?
- It is hard to wash
- It can turn something meaningful into a joke
- It is too expensive
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It can turn something meaningful into a joke
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, theme, voice, image, knowledge, story, song or drama 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
Which is an example of cultural appropriation?
- Attending a festival and learning its meaning
- Asking a friend to explain a tradition
- Performing a community's sacred song as a joke
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Performing a community's sacred song as a joke
Hint: Cultural appropriation is using a cultural motif, theme, voice, image, knowledge, story, song or drama 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.