XAAYDA KIL / XAAD KIL GRADES 5 TO 12 Integrated Resource Package 2017 School District No.50 Haida Gwaii Copyright © 2016 School District No. 50 Haida Gwaii and the School District No. 50 Haida Education Council, on behalf of the Xaayda Kil and Xaad Kil language champions past and present: those who keep the language alive for Haida children, present and future. COPYRIGHT NOTICE No part of the content of this document may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including electronic storage, reproduction, execution or transmission without the prior written permission of the Xaayda Kil and Xaad Kil Language Authorities and the School District No. 50 Haida Gwaii Board of Education. LIMITED EXEMPTION TO NON-REPRODUCTION This copyright allows unlimited use of this IRP by the School District No. 50 Board of Education, which sponsored its development. Permission to copy and use this publication in part, or in its entirety, for non-profit educational purposes is granted to all British Columbia public schools and First Nation schools, for the purpose of teaching Xaad Kil and Xaayda Kil. COVER ARTWORK The design is of Mouse Woman, a recurring supernatural being in almost every Haida story; she is the “all seeing eye”. Her role is to guide one through the story with the knowledge of either what is to happen or how to prepare for what will happen, or even to give directions. She is the oracle in a sense, with all her knowledge, just as this document shall be full of language and history. I see this box design with Mouse Woman as a box filled with knowledge, which in turn represents this IRP. -- WNCY (Billy Yovanovich) TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE: USING THIS INTEGRATED RESOURCE PACKAGE Preface ................................................................................................................. vii INTRODUCTION Principles of Learning ............................................................................................ 5 First Peoples Principles of Learning ...................................................................... 5 Haida Principles of Learning Yahguudang ............................................................. 6 Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil: Language of the People ....................................................... 6 Rationale ................................................................................................................ 7 Instructional Content ............................................................................................. 8 Approach to Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil Teaching .......................................................... 9 A Note on Dialect .................................................................................................. 9 Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil Connection to Land/Sea/Air ............................................... 10 Haida Oceans and Way of Life Map .................................................................... 11 Haida Marine Seasonal Round ............................................................................. 12 The Communicative - Experiential Approach ...................................................... 13 Prescribed Learning Outcomes ............................................................................ 13 Language Learning Strategies .............................................................................. 14 Curriculum Organizers ........................................................................................ 17 Integration with Other Curricula .......................................................................... 19 Suggested Instructional Strategies ....................................................................... 19 Suggested Assessment Strategies ......................................................................... 19 Assessment in Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil .................................................................... 20 About Assessment in General ............................................................................... 20 Integration of Cross-Curricular Interests .............................................................. 21 Exemptions from the Language Policy ................................................................ 21 Students with Special Needs and Second Language Study ................................... 22 Learning Resources ............................................................................................. 24 Working with the Haida Community ................................................................... 26 Involving Parents and Guardians .......................................................................... 28 Establishing a Positive Classroom Climate .......................................................... 28 Addressing Sensitive Topics ................................................................................ 29 Copyright and Responsibility ............................................................................... 30 Endnotes .............................................................................................................. 31 Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil 5 to 12 iii TABLE OF CONTENTS XAAYDA KIL / XAAD KIL GRADES 5 TO 12 CURRICULUM Grade 5 ................................................................................................................ 34 Grade 6 ................................................................................................................ 42 Grade 7 ................................................................................................................ 50 Grade 8 ................................................................................................................ 58 Grade 9 ................................................................................................................ 66 Grade 10 .............................................................................................................. 74 Grade 11 .............................................................................................................. 82 Grade 12 .............................................................................................................. 90 Introductory Xaayda Kil / Xaad Kil 11 ................................................................. 99 XAAYDA KIL / XAAD KIL GRADES 5 TO 12 APPENDICES Appendix A: Prescribed Learning Outcomes ...................................................... A-2 Appendix B: Learning Resources ....................................................................... B-3 Appendix C: Assessment and Evaluation ............................................................ C-3 Appendix D: Honouring ..................................................................................... D-3 Appendix E: School District No. 50 Haida Gwaii Protocol Guidelines ............... E-3 Appendix F: Orthography ...................................................................................F-3 iv Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil 5 to 12 PREFACE PREFACE: USING THIS RESOURCE PACKAGE Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil Integrated Prescribed Learning Outcomes Resource Package Grades 5 to 12 Prescribed learning outcomes are content This Integrated Resource Package (IRP) standards for the provincial education provides basic information that teachers system. Learning outcomes set out the will require in order to implement the knowledge, enduring ideas, issues, Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil Grades 5 to 12 concepts, skills, and attitudes for each curricula. Brief descriptions about each subject. They are the statements of what section of the IRP follow. students are expected to know and be able to do in each grade. Learning The Introduction outcomes are clearly stated and expressed in observable or measurable The Introduction provides general terms. All learning outcomes complete information about the Haida language the stem: “It is expected that students Grade 5 to 12 curricula, including will….” Outcome statements have been special features and requirements. It written to enable teachers to use their also provides a rationale for teaching experience and professional judgment Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil in School District when planning and evaluating. The #50 Haida Gwaii. outcomes are benchmarks that will permit the use of criterion-referenced THE XAAYDA KIL/XAAD KIL GRADES 5 performance standards. It is expected TO 12 CURRICULUM that actual student performance will vary. Evaluation, reporting, and student The Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil Grades 5 to 12 placement with respect to these Curriculum is structured in terms of outcomes depend on the professional curriculum organizers. The main body judgment of teachers, guided by of this IRP consists of four columns of provincial policy. information for each organizer. These columns include: Suggested Instructional Strategies prescribed learning outcome Instruction involves the use of statements techniques, activities, and methods that suggested instructional strategies can be employed to meet diverse student for achieving the outcomes needs and to deliver the prescribed suggested assessment strategies curriculum. Teachers are free to adapt for determining how well the suggested instructional strategies or students are achieving the substitute others that will enable their outcomes students to achieve the prescribed locally approved learning learning outcomes. These strategies are resources suggestions only. Suggested Assessment Strategies The assessment strategies suggest a variety of ways to gather information about student performance. Some Xaayda Kil/Xaad Kil Grades 5 to