While we’re all in isolation, we’re going to try to post one video a day from Sol’s existing teaching library, and the teaching libraries of some of his friends. Like Sasquatch himself, Solomon Ratt has experience with self isolation. Who better to help out with online Cree lessons for remote learning?
Today’s video presents a game Solomon Ratt calls W5 that uses question words to prompt students to practice new vocabulary. What are the question words in Cree?
- awîna : who?
- kikway : what?
- tânispîhk : when?
- tânitê : where?
- tânêhki : why?
- tânisi : how?
Something to think about: Five of our English question words begin with Wh. Linguists say they are derived from the same word in the ancestral language (Proto-Indo-European). And sometimes we overlook “how” because it doesn’t start with Wh. When you look at Cree question words as a set, do you notice similarities?
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(About Sol’s shirt: https://creeliteracy.org/2020/03/17/awas-go-away-most-dialects/)
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Thank you so much for providing these lessons. I just found then when I was looking up the Waniska song. I will be reviewing these lessons everyday now. All the best to the creators of this site and to those who contribute to it.