Strategies
The strategies I would implement in the classroom would include students' daily use of the oral language, peer to peer dialogue, analyzing Navajo and Engish terms during the lessons included in the unit.
Translation and Interpretation of the selected poems connected with autumn, winter, spring, and summer. Work with the poems "Breakfast," "Herding Sheep," "Snow," "Hauling Water," "The Sheep," "Parents," "New Life with Spring." Then tie in the history of the Navajo culture by including in October the Long Walk and in December the Navajo Code Talkers.
At the end of my unit, I would want my students to feel a sense of connectedness to their Navajo self-identity. I want my students to be able to participate in their Navajo language class by reading a few words and short sentences with a peer or to their Navajo language teacher.
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