Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 389 - Examinations, Courses, Standards and Diplomas
HIGH SCHOOL
Elective Courses of Study
Section 389.6549 - Great Basin Native American language
Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 389.6549
Current through February 27, 2024
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
NRS 385.080, 385.110
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