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| First Nations encompass any group of native peoples. This section includes activities on Australian Aborigines and Native Americans, though by noting the injustices our home cultures visited upon them, it may be easier to note similarities in the treatment of the Ainu. | |
| Native Americans (Passive Voice) - An activity to teach passive voice and historic Native American culture.
Passive voice - Students generally learn passive voice in the 2nd grade of junior high. Example: Compare passive voice in "Tepees were made by the Sioux," versus the active voice in "The Sioux made tepees." Classroom activity #1 - Students form groups and each group receives one of five passages on a Native American tribe. They work together to answer questions regarding their tribe and then report he results to the rest of the class. Variation: If students are of high enough level, you might consider forming groups of five students, each person receiving a different passage and reporting to their own group. Classroom activity #2 - Give the students copies of the handouts with choice words blanked out. To fill in the blanks, they must approach the teachers and ask appropriate questions in English. Suggestion - Show a scene from Dances with Wolves and explain the historic background of Amerindian cultures. |
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Handouts on the Hopi, the Iroquois League, the Seminole, the Pomo, and the Sioux. |
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Worksheets for passive voice |
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Native Americans (Simple Vocabulary) - A worksheet in which students match Amerindian symbols to the Japanese and English meanings. Note the similarity between ancient kanji and Native American glyphs. |
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Australian Aborigines - A language-comprehension exercise about the Australian Aborigines. Students read or listen to the text and answer questions on the worksheet. |
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Aborigine Art - Worksheets for interperting Aborigine symbology and meaning. | |