Week One
- Introductory housekeeping
- Introduce ourselves in Garifuna
- Overview of Garifuna culture and language
- View The Garifuna Journey (46:30)
- VSO- structure of the simple sentence
- Prounouns
- Begin word list (nouns)
- Instructions for Journals
- Assign reading #1 (Cayetano)
Week Two
- Review The Garifuna Journey
- Add to word list (verbs)
- Agglutinating words/sentences
- Examine the VSO structure
- Action words, name words
- Pronunciation drills
- Add pronouns to verbs to create simple sentences
- Letters of the alphabet
Week Three
- Recite letter of the alphabet
- Role play meeting and greeting
- Use word list to construct sentences
- Add new words to word list (prepositions)
- Discuss reading Assignment #1
View DVD Play John Kunu Play
Week Four
- Discuss Devonish and Castillo
- Construct sentences based on aspects of Dev & Cas
- Review greetings and letters of the alphabet
- Sing the alphabet song
- Count from 1-10