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