Talking Without Words Teachers' Guide: Suggested for 6th Grade

This guide is designed to be used with the "Talking Without Words: Early Inter-Tribal Communication" video or DVD (which may be accessed at http://www.opi.mt.gov/Programs/IndianEd/IEFAVideo.html#gpm1_3). Talking Without Words explores the use of non-verbal and symbolic communication by focusing on the ways Native peoples of Montana communicated with each other and with non-Indians. This guide is designed to aid teachers in extending and expanding the topics introduced in the DVD by providing lessons in Montana history, geography and language arts. The 22-minute DVD is not chaptered, but intended to be viewed in one class period. This guide, however, is divided into three chaptered sections, with corresponding time codes for the DVD which provide logical breaks in the film content for the teachers' convenience.