TCSD Lakota Language K-12
Wounspe Opahte Tokeyehci
Second Teaching
Pages 7-12
Grades K-2
Grades 3-5
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-12
Wounspe Opahte
Tokeyehci
Second Teaching
Outcome (i)
Identify correct
conjugation forms
Grades K-2
Grades 3-5
Resources
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language
p32-34
-graphic organizer
Length of time
30 min. 5 times
Cultural Aspect
Introduction to
conjugation
Pages 32-34
Activities
Practice correct
conjugation (change
the pronoun the
subject changes)
Evaluation
Identify correct
conjugation forms
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p32-34
35 min. 4 times
Introduction to
conjugation
pages 32-34
-conjugation
worksheet page 34
Identify correct
conjugation forms
Grades 6-8
-graphic organizer
SGU dvd
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p32-34
-graphic organizer
SGU dvd
25 min. 2 times
Proper and correct
conjugation
pages 32-34
Conjugation
worksheet page 34
Identify correct
conjugation forms
Grades 9-12
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p32-34
-graphic organizer
90 min. 2 times
Proper and correct
conjugation
pages 32-34
-oral drills
-graphic organizer
page 34
Identify correct
conjugation forms
Outcome (ii)
Identify proper use
of the basic Lakota
sentence structure
and Lakota thought
pattern
Grades K-2
Resources
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p35-39
-Lakota word order
poster p.36
Length of Unit
30 min. 5 times
Cultural Aspect
Speaking English in
Lakota p 35
Activities
-Introduction to
simple sentences
35-40
-modeling Lakota
thought by having
students listen to
stories.
Evaluation
Identify proper use
of the basic Lakota
sentence structure
and Lakota
thought pattern.
Grades 3-5
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p35-39
-Lakota word order
35 min. 4 times
Speaking English in
Lakota p 35
-model Lakota
thought by reading
Lakota stories.
-Writing and oral
Identify proper use
of the basic Lakota
sentence structure
and Lakota
poster p36
drill pages 36 & 37
thought pattern.
Grades 6-8
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p35-39
-Lakota word order
poster p36
25 min. 15 times
Speaking English in
Lakota p 35
-Worksheet to
conjugation forms,
page 34.
Translation
activity 37-38
Identify proper use
of the basic Lakota
sentence structure
and Lakota
thought pattern.
Grades 9-12
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p35-39
-Lakota word order
poster p36
90 min. 2 times
Speaking English in
Lakota p 35
-Worksheets
-Read Lakota
material
Identify proper use
of the basic Lakota
sentence structure
and Lakota
thought pattern.
Outcome (iii)
Demonstrate the
correct pronunciation of Lakota
vowels.
Grades K-2
Resources
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language
26-40, 52
-alphabet poster
SGU DVD
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p26-40,
52
-alphabet poster
SGU dvd
Length of Unit
30 min. 5 times
Cultural Aspect
Appropriately using
nasal vowels.
Page 28
Activities
Practice saying the
Lakota vowels and
nasal vowels.
Focus on correct
pronunciation
Evaluation
Demonstrate the
correct
pronunciation of
Lakota vowels.
35 min. 4 times
Appropriately using
nasal vowels,
Page 26, 31-39
Vowels always
make the same
sound even if they
are clustered, p31-
Pronounce the
Lakota vowel
sounds and
pronunciation drill
on page 13
Demonstrate the
correct
pronunciation of
Lakota vowels.
Grades 3-5
39
Grades 6-8
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p26-40,
52
-alphabet poster
SGU dvd
25 minutes 5 times
Vowels always
make the same
sound even if they
are clustered, p3139
Pronounce the
Lakota vowel
sounds and
pronunciation drill
on page 13
Demonstrate the
correct
pronunciation of
Lakota vowels.
Grades 9-12
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p26-40,
52
-alphabet poster
SGU dvd
90 min. 2 times
Vowels always
make the same
sound even if they
are clustered,
pp31-39
Pronounce the
Lakota vowel
sounds and
pronunciation drill
on page 13
Demonstrate the
correct
pronunciation of
Lakota vowels.
Outcome (iv)
Identify and greet
relatives
appropriately
Grades K-2
Resources
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language
p28-30
-relationship poster
Length of time
30 min. 5 times
Cultural Aspect
-Importance of
relatives p 29
Appropriately using
correct greeting
terms for relatives.
Page 28
Activities
Practice using
appropriate Lakota
greeting terms
(Lakota protocol)
Evaluation
Identify and greet
relatives
appropriately
Grades 3-5
Reading and
35 min. 4 times
-You and I forms
Introduction drill
Identify and greet
page 30
-He and Hena
Dialogue exercise
-Importance of
relatives p 29
Appropriately using
correct greeting
terms for relatives
Pages 27, 28-29, 3233
Writing the Lakota
Language, p28-30
-relationship poster
-Garage band
SGU dvd
relatives
appropriately
Grades 6-8
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language, p28-30
-relationship poster
Garage band
SGU dvd
25 min 8 times
-Importance of
relatives p 29
Appropriately using
correct greeting
terms for relatives
Introduction drill,
p30
Introduce relatives
from the family
tree
Identify and greet
relatives
appropriately
Grades 9-12
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language,p28-30
-relationship poster
SGU dvd
90 min. 2 times
-Importance of
relatives p 29
Appropriately using
correct greeting
terms for relatives.
Introduction drill,
p30
Identify and greet
relatives
appropriately
Outcome (v)
Identify and
correctly count
Lakota numbers 110
Resources
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language,p38
Paul Goble’s Her
Length of time
30 min. x 5 times
Cultural Aspect
Appropriately use
methods to
identify numbers
1-10. Identify a
Activities
Practice oral
counting using
manipulatives and
integrating with
Evaluation
Identify and
correctly count
Lakota numbers 110
Grades K-2
Seven Brothers
manipulative
-number poster
Grades 3-5
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language
Paul Goble’s Her
Seven Brothers
-medicine wheel
power point
-number poster
35 min. 4 times
Grades 6-8
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language
Paul Goble’s Seven
Brothers
Flash Cards
-number poster
25 min x 3 times
number of objects
with the proper
Lakota term
Story 7 brothers.
other lessons
Reading story of 7
Brothers
-Number 4
important in culture
Four Winds(tate
topa)
-Read pages 1
“Division within the
Sioux Na pages 155
-“4 winds” also 104
Reading stories of 7
brothers
Number 4; p104
Division within the
Sioux Nation p155
Homework activity
page 30
-use with kinship
lesson
Color Sheet on four
directions.
Identify and
correctly count
Lakota numbers 110.
Make flash cards,
pronounce numbers
with teacher,
identify numbers,
read aloud by
holding up
matching flash card
Incorporate Lakota
numbers into
sentence structure
Identify and
correctly count
Lakota numbers 110.
Grades 9-12
Reading and
Writing the Lakota
Language
Manipulative
-number poster
90 min.
Numbers 1-10
page 30
-oral drills
-work sheets
-drill activity using
manipulative
-develop sentences
Identify and
correctly count
Lakota numbers 110.