NAC389.6549. Great Basin Native American language.

A course of study in a Great Basin Native American language must include instruction designed to teach the pupil to do the following:

     1. After 1 year of instruction:

     (a) Understand routine questions, statements, commands and conversation.

     (b) Recognize the differences in intonation between questions, statements and commands.

     (c) Produce words and phrases used frequently in daily life.

     (d) Identify in oral speech highly contextualized cognates.

     (e) Understand and compose simple oral material.

     (f) Be familiar with the location and geography of the Native Americans whose language is being studied.

     (g) Be familiar with how the Native Americans whose language is being studied are related to other Native Americans in the Great Basin region.

     (h) Be familiar with important cultural features, prominent persons, current events and activities of the Native Americans whose language is being studied.

     (i) Be familiar with some of the major contributions to the culture of this State and the United States made by the Native Americans whose language is being studied.

     2. After 2 years of instruction:

     (a) Understand simple conversation.

     (b) Understand the language of simple social conventions.

     (c) Distinguish the unique sounds of the language in familiar context.

     (d) Participate in familiar situations, including, without limitation, asking and answering questions, giving and following simple directions, engaging in conversation at a dinner table, and introducing oneself.

     (e) Understand a written passage sufficiently to use alternative language to communicate the content of the passage.

     (f) Retell familiar material.

     (g) Understand main ideas and facts from a simple oral text, including, without limitation, a story.

     (h) Follow oral directions.

     (i) Infer meaning from the context of the material studied and cognates.

     (j) Compose, with guidance from the instructor, short oral compositions, statements and dialogue.

     (k) Explore major aspects of the geography, daily life, celebrations, social customs, body language and proximity, perception of time and major historical events of the region where the language is spoken.

     (l) Continue to demonstrate an awareness of current events, communities and prominent persons of the region where the language is spoken.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Education by R066-97, eff. 12-10-97)