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ESL students find common ground unearthing story of Black Canadian WWI soldier cbc.ca 3 days ago Christine Maki When 15-year-old Khalid Abdi was asked to investigate the life of a Canadian soldier from 100 years ago, he wasn t super excited about the class project at first.  Growing up in Somalia, Abdi had always felt bored by history. But the English as a Second Language (ESL) student at Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa soon realized he and this soldier had something in common.   Pretty much, my life and his life [are] the same, said Abdi, who came to Canada with his family in December of 2019. Abdi soon discovered his own experience of Somalia s ongoing civil war helped him relate to Harry Timothy Jones, a member of Canada s only all-Black First World War battalion.

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