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Tlingit-Haida-Tsimshian As a Second Language
Grade 7 - Grade 12
Extension Activities
Administer the Assessment for this unit.
• Provide each student with a small map of Alaska. The students should then use illustrating supplies
to colour the oceans, lakes and rivers that are shown on the map. When the students have
completed the coloring of the waterforms on their maps, they should label their maps using the
key words from this unit. Collect the maps and create a display in the classroom or hallway with
them.
• Introduce the dialog for this unit to the students. Begin by saying the “a” parts; the students
say the “b” parts. Later, switch these and the students say the “a” parts and you say the “b”
parts. Divide the class in half and have the two groups practice the dialog. When the students
learn the dialog, have individuals in the class practice the dialog with one another. • Use the
Dialog Activity Page, from the Student Support Materials, to review the dialog with the students.
• Provide each student with writing paper and a pen. Write the Unit’s Sentence and the vocabulary
words on the chalkboard. Purposely make some spelling mistakes in some of the sentences.
The students should write only those sentences that have errors, correcting the errors as they
write the sentences. After wards, review the students' responses.
• 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 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 Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian. 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.
• 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.
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
Lesson 10
http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/language_resources.htm
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