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Tlingit-Haida-Tsimshian As a Second Language
Lesson 10
Grade 7 - Grade 12
Extension Activities
Administer the Assessment for this unit.
• Provide each student with art paper, pipe cleaners, strips of babiche and glue. The students
should then use their pipe cleaners to create snowshoes, or other recreation items, on their art
paper; they should do this by bending and gluing the pipe cleaners into the shape of snowshoes.
They should then finish the snowshoes with the strips of babiche. Have the students label their
finished artwork; display the snowshoes in the classroom or hallway.
• Invite a resource person to demonstrate traditional Native games. Arrange the presentation well
in advance so that the necessary concrete materials can be collected to enhance the presentation.
• Provide the students with small squares of tagboard (e.g., half inch squares). The students
should write the letters of the Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian alphabet on their squares (one letter per
square). When finished, the students can break into pairs and use their letter squares to play
Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian “Scrabble.”
• Prepare a set of sight word cards for the students so that each student has one card. Call a student’s
name; that student should try to say a complete Tlingit/haida/tsimshian sentence using
sentences and vocabulary words and dialogs from previous units. Continue until each student
has had an opportunity to create a sentence of his/her own. Understandably, the sentences may
be very basic for those students who do not understand or speak the Heritage Language. Accept
any sentences that make sense; if a student makes a grammatical mistake, merely repeat the
sentence, making the change(s) so that the sentence is grammatically correct.
• Introduce the dialog from this unit to the students. Practice the dialog with the students in
choral, group and individual forms.
Place all of the sight words from this unit in a box or envelope, labeled “Grades 7 - 12;”
these words can be used periodically throughout the school year for review purposes.
You may wish to keep the matching vocabulary illustrations in a separate box or envelope.
One review activity would be to dump all of the sight words on a table. Group the students
around the table. Each student should take one of the vocabulary illustrations and
then try to find its sight word on the table.
Other SHI Resources
Beginning Tlingit Lesssons 7, 9
http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/language_and_culture_curriculum.htm
Canoes
ttp://www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/language_resources.htm
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