Appendix
The Arizona Common Core State Standards (AZCCSS) encompasses literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects. These standards require students to learn to read, write, listen and speak the English language efficiently. The key features of the English Language Arts Standards are reading complex text and show comprehension growth, writing various texts when responding to reading and research, speaking and listening while communicating collaboratively use language conventions and vocabulary.
The Diné Culture-Based Curriculum is integrated in the unit. The Dine language, science, math, social studies, music and health/physical are the umbrella for the traditional home, traditional foods, and the constellations. The Hoghan and other Native American Indian dwellings are compared in structure and cultural significances with family and clans. The value and customs of planting, harvesting, and preparing traditional foods (corn, beans, squash, and pumpkins) are including with oral stories about how the T’azhii (Turkey) Brought Seeds to the New World and the constellation focusing on the stars with oral stories about how Ma’ii (Coyote) scattered the stars into the sky.
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