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Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, and Cherokee
Learners explore the connections between tradition and language. They examine the environment, history and culture of the Tlingit, Lakota and Cherokee tribes and identify the importance of maintaining languages for oral traditions.
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Lesson Plan: Stories of Home on My Home
Learners research the Lakota tribes, culture, art, and family life. They analyze an installation piece created by a Lakota Indian, and connect what they see to the concept of home. They engage in a discussion, creative writing activity,...
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Weather and Seasons
Use pictures and manipulatives to develop vocabulary with your beginning language learners. This plan can be used with foreign language learners (although you'll have to provide the vocabulary), English language learners, or a young...
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The Rooms in a Home
Enhance your foreign language students' skills to describe a house. After reading a description of rooms in a house in their target language, they work to answer corresponding questions correctly. Additionally, they view a PowerPoint...
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What I need for School
You can use this lesson with English language learners, a young language arts class, or speakers of a foreign language. The phrases learned are I need and I don't need. The teacher collects several items around the room, and learners...
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Rehearsing the Fashion Show
Learners edit written work about a fashion show. In this fashion show lesson, students write a presentation piece and works in groups of 4,6, or 8 to edit what they have written. Learners rehearse by pair sharing and give...
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Family Album
Kids of all ages discover their family histories through pictures. First, flip through the PowerPoint provided (or consider making one of your own). It should show pictures of your family and have clear, easy to understand sentences that...
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My Childhood Portrait
Students practice descriptive writing by viewing auto-portraits of young children. For this art analysis lesson, students examine an auto-portrait of their teacher as a young child and ask him/her questions about their youth....
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Wild West Book List
Are you teaching a unit on the Wild West and need a good book suggestion that ties in? You've just found an extensive book list that includes titles for both juvenile and advanced readers. Each title is about some aspect of the Wild West...
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My Daily Routine
Foreign language learners work in pairs to translate the daily routine of celebrities or everyday people, presented in daily planner format, into English. They then illustrate and record their own daily routines in storyboard (film...
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Classified Advertisements: Target Language Practice
Foreign language learners decipher the meanings of classified ads in the target language. They investigate a large collage created by the teacher of foreign language advertisements and discuss the content with classmates. Then...
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Symbols of Power in Native American Clothing
Students create power shirts that were highly important in the culture of many Native Americans.
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My Ideal Partner
Students write about their ideal mate. In this ideal mate writing lesson, students listen and then help the teacher describe the characteristics of an ideal mate. Students write about their ideal mate and share with a...
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Day four: Writing a Sports Article
Students write a newspaper article related to a sports event. In this article writing instructional activity, students read sports-related articles, complete a graphic organizer to help them see the format of a newspaper article,...
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Creating a Talk Show
Students practice interviewing and answering questions by creating a mock talk show. For this communications lesson, students view a classic clip of an older T.V. talk show and plan an outline of material for their own talk show....
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Expressions of Frequency
Students practice discussing timely manners in a target language. For this foreign language lesson, students discuss words that represent frequency such as never or often. Students create a timeline illustrating how...
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Planning a Class Party
Students investigate event planning. In this literacy and communications lesson, students brainstorm food, activity, and guest ideas for a monthly classroom celebration of student birthdays.
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Home Tour
For this exchange student lesson, students create a story about an exchange student. Students draw a map to show the location of community buildings and practice providing directions from location to location.
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Bargaining
Students create a newspaper or magazine advertisement for clothing and personal items. Students make statements of preference regarding these items. Students engage in a role play where two people are bargaining for various items.
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Writing A Story
Students write a story about past events and translate it into English. In this story writing lesson plan, students watch video clips, look at examples of stories, and write ones themselves.
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Correspondence
Students write a pen pal letter to narrate a special event in the life of a young person in the TL culture. In this pen pal lesson plan, students read and respond to letters by their classmates.
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About Discussions
Students exchange opinions, express feelings, and listen to presentations of others about an argument. In this discussion lesson plan, students learn how to listen and respond for an argument they intend to have.
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Jeopardy Game
Students practice discovering a target language by playing a game of Jeopardy. In this foreign language lesson, students utilize their target language vocabulary to answer Jeopardy style questions they prepared the day before....
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A Look at Geography
Young scholars discover geographical places and terms in another language. In this geographical identification lesson, students utilize their geographical vocabulary to describe to other classmates where they would like to go or...