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Tlingit-Haida-Tsimshian As a Second Language
Lesson 10
Grade 7 - Grade 12
Extension Activities
Administer the Criterion Referenced Assessment for this unit.
• Have the students go to the different buildings in the community (e.g., in pairs) to interview people
who work in those locations. Arrange the visits in advance; the students should take notes
during their interviews. Later, have the students make oral presentations on the interviews that
they conducted.
• Have the students sit in pairs. Provide each pair with writing paper and a pen. Each pair of students
should then create a dialog using the key vocabulary from this unit. When the students in
each pair have created their dialogs, they should practice them with one another. When the students
are ready, have each pair of students stand and say their dialog in front of the other students.
Repeat until all pairs of students have participated.
• Use the Dialog Activity Page from the Student Support Materials to review the dialog.
• Provide the students with writing paper and pens. Each student should create a clozure sentence,
based on the unit’s theme. The students must not use the key vocabulary words in their
sentences. When a student’s sentence is ready, he/she should read it to the other students. Call
upon the other students to name the key vocabulary word missing from the sentence. Repeat
until all of the students have participated.
• Conduct a dictation of ten words chosen from units covered previously in the Heritage language
program. The students should write the words that you say, on sheets of writing paper. When the
dictation is over, review the students’ results.
• Introduce the dialog from this unit to the students. Practice the dialog with the students in
choral, group and individual forms.
• Use the Dialog Activity Page from the Student Support Materials to review the dialog.
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 Lesson 6
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