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The Books on the Shelf

Reclaiming Our Territory Word by Word: Grassroots Language Teaching by Waabihizhiikwe

This is a guide for fluent speakers of any language to teacher people in the

oral tradition. It offers a series of sixty-three lessons plans for teaching

spoken languages orally. Each lesson presents a series of vocabulary items or

conversations that the fluent speaker translates/interprets for their students

who then play with the newly learned material.

For example, from the second lesson:

Question: Hello. What's your name?

Answer: My name is ______. How about you?

This then gets built in to an activity "Speed Dating". The students form a

line, and the first person in the line goes down the whole line having this

conversation with each person. The second person in line then does the same. In

the end, everyone has had the conversation with everyone else.

This book is really interesting in that it can be used with any language. The

writing is sensitive, caring, and warns the teacher about a number of

non-obvious things (such as gender identity) that might crop up while using the

lessons.

This book reminds me of the "Where Are Your Keys?" language learning methods.

Years ago, I lead a game of Where Are Your Keys in Esperanto and it was very

illuminating. The material in Reclaiming Our Territory might be useful if I

want go deeper with teaching Esperanto, though that isn't a project that I see

myself taking on any time soon.

One more thing that I really liked from Reclaiming Our Territory was the

initial lesson that laid out a lot of vocabulary for how the classes will run.

Hello.

Again.

Ask me.

It's difficult.

Give me.

Just me.

Maybe not.

Just you say it, no one else.

Let's sit in a circle.

Stand up.

Tell me.

I don't understand.

You

I need to leave the room.

Do you understand?

etc. etc.

Even if we all speak the same language, I think it might it might be helpful to

layout a certain basic vocabulary like this on day one.

Where are Your Keys

Mazinaate's page for Reclaiming our Territory Word by Word

ISBN: 9781777060909

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