Week 1

Day 1: Identify Community Elders

Goal: Students will be able to identify an Elder in their community  

• Show the Grade 1 SILKAT video to introduce the unit. Ask if they see any Elders in the video that they know. 

• Ask students to identify  Elders in their community and the qualities that person has that makes them an Elder.  List their responses on a chart, titled, "Elders in Our Community." Keep this chart to refer to. 

• Tell students that one of the ways they can show respect for an Elder is to greet them in their native language. Teach students use their native language to say "hello, thank you and goodbye." Keep these native language words up for children to see and practice from. 

•  Ask students (parents) to bring or send in a photos of community Elders. (If they can't bring a photo, they can draw a picture of the Elder instead. ) You will use these photos for the puppet art lesson.

Materials

SILKAT grade 1 video

Chart paper 

Native language word cards (hello, thank you , goodbye) to post on the wall

Day 3: Peer Critique Feedback, 2nd draft

• Show students the video, Austin's Butterfly.  Have them listen for kind, specific, helpful feedback and to watch for how Austin used suggestions to make his drawing better. 

• Teacher modeling: Using your drawing from the day before, have students give you kind, specific, helpful feedback to improve your drawing. Incorporate their feedback as needed to improve your drawing. 

• Students work in pairs with the rubric to give each other kind, specific, helpful feedback on their drawings. 

• Students work on drawings and complete them, adding color. 

• Teacher models writing about his/her illustration; I learned ______ from (Elder's name.) 

• On a strip of writing paper, students write, I learned ________from  (Elder's name).  Glue writing onto the bottom of the book page. 

• Put the pages together into a book.  If possible, make copies for students to give as a gift to an Elder.

Materials

Austin's Butterfly video

Drawing rubric (in day 2 materials above)

pencils, colored markers, crayons, colored pencils

writing paper strip for students to write their sentences on and glue onto the bottom of their pictures. 

Good video showing 2nd graders giving peer feedback

Day 4: Elder Guest Presenter 

Goal: Students will be able to respectfully welcome an Elder to their classroom and listen to them. 

• Have students share ways of showing respectful listening before the Elder arrives or before your students go to visit an Elder. 

• The topic of the presentation could be for the Elder to share things that they learned from their Elders and the kinds of things they have taught their children and, perhaps grandchildren. 

• Provide tea or coffee for the Elder. If possible, give them a gift of subsistence food. 

• Students share the book (or give a copy of the book to the  Elder) to thank them for coming to the classroom. 

Materials:

Iñupiaq Region Process of Interviewing

Tea, coffee, or water to offer Elder