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Unit 1
Kindergarten - Grade 3
During this unit, the students will:
1. demonstrate an understanding of the
unit’s theme;
2. recognize the key vocabulary words
when they hear them - with and without
the unit’s sentence;
3. say the key vocabulary words and the
unit’s sentence.
My Body Parts - Tsimshian
Grade 4 - Grade 12
During this unit, the students will:
1. demonstrate an understanding of the
unit’s theme;
2. recognize the key vocabulary words
when they hear them - with and without
the unit’s sentence;
3. say the key vocabulary words and the
unit’s sentence;
4. recognize the printed forms of the key
vocabulary words;
5. decode & encode the key vocabulary
words by word halves, syllables and/or
letters;
6. write the key vocabulary words.
Kindergarten
noayu (my mother)
nagwaadu (my father)
shu’pashm hlmkdeeyu
(my young brother/sister)
Unit’s Dialog
a. Naadu gwee (Who is that)
Key Vocabulary
Grades 1 - 3
noayu (my mother)
nagwaadu (my father)
shu’pashm hlmkdeeyu
(my young brother/sister)
hlgaawgu (my sister)
n’dse’etsm
(our grandmother)
Grades 4 - 6
noayu (my mother)
nagwaadu (my father)
shu’pashm hlmkdeeyu
(my young brother/sister)
hlgaawgu (my sister)
n’dse’etsm
(our grandmother)
da’ashm (our aunt)
nabeebm (our uncle)
hlgaawgt (her/his sister)
Grades 7 - 12
noayu (my mother)
nagwaadu (my father)
shu’pashm hlmkdeeyu
(my young brother/sister)
hlgaawgu (my sister)
n’dse’etsm
(our grandmother)
da’ashm (our aunt)
nabeebm (our uncle)
hlgaawgt (her/his sister)
hlmkdeeyu
(my brother/sister)
(our grandmother)
wakyat
(his/her brother)
nabeebt (his/her uncle)
‘yoota (boy/man)
hana’ack (girl/woman)
b. _______gwee. (That is my ______.)
a. Ada gwa’a (And this one)
b. Ada_______gwa’a. (And this one is
Unit’s Sentence
________ gwa’a. (This is my ______.)