LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT BASED ON LITERATURE - High School

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The program is based on the Developmental Language Process, a highly effective vehicle for teaching and learning. Watch an informative video about the process here.

Book 1: Featuring Basket Bay History, as told by Robert Zuboff; Raven Boat, as told by Jennie White, and Kaakex'wri, as told by Willie Marks.
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- *Original source: Haa Shuká: Our Ancestors--Tlingit Oral Narratives by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer.
Book 2: Featuring First Russians, as told by Charlie White*; Kaats', as told by J.B. Fawcett*; Raven, the Rock, and the King Salmon, as told by James Klanott; and, The Coming of the First White Man*, as told by George Betts.
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- *Original source: Haa Shuká: Our Ancestors--Tlingit Oral Narratives by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer.
Book 3: Featuring the Jesse Dalton Story, as presented by Jesse Dalton*;Koo.éex’: The Tlingit Memorial Party**; Moldy End, by John Swanton.
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- *Original source: Haa Tuwunaagu Yis for Healing Our Spirit, Tlingit Oratory by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
- **Original source: Celebration 2000, Sealaska Heritage Foundation
Book 4: Featuring Origin of the Killer Whale, from John Swanton*; Mosquito, as told by Robert Zuboff**; Tlingit Renaissance***
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- *Original source: Tlingit Myths & Texts
- **Original source: Haa Shuká: Our Ancestors--Tlingit Oral Narratives by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer.
- ***Original source: Life Woven with Song, by Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Book 5: Raven, presented by John Swanton*; Some Slices of Salmon: Entering the Salmon Stream**; Raven and the Deer, as told by Katherine Mills; Tlingit Language and Oral Literature Research***.
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- *Original source: Raven Story, Tlingit Myths and Texts
- **Original source: Life Woven with Song by Nora Marks Dauenhauer
- ***Original source: Life Woven with Song by Nora Marks Dauenhauer