Common Phrases in the Classroom
Subjects:
• dshiwni-nawendwin
~ math (i.e., ‘quantity-ness−−inter-relatedness’)
• nwewni-naabjichgewin
~ language arts (i.e., ‘language–ways-of-utilizing’)
• yapenmon’daadii-gkenjgewin
~ science (i.e., ‘frameworked knowledge’, or ‘systematized knowledge’)
• wiiji-dnakii-nawendwinan nagkeyaa nnda-gkenjgewin
wiiji-dnakii-nawendwinan nagkeyaa nnda-gkenjgewin
~ social studies (i.e., ‘things–concerning–living_together_in_a_certain_place-relationships studying’)
• gaa-gii-bi-zhiwebzinaanwang
~ history (i.e., ‘that which came to happen to one in a certain manner’)
• gaa-gii-bi-zhiwebak ____________ nagkeyaa
gaa-gii-bi-zhiwebak ____________ nagkeyaa
~ history of ____[inanimate something]____ (i.e., ‘that which came to happen in a certain manner concerning ____________’)
• gaa-gii-bi-zhiwebziwaad ____________
gaa-gii-bi-zhiwebziwaad ____________
~ history of ____[animate them]____ (i.e., ‘that which came to happen to ____________ in a certain manner’)
• gaa-nakmigaag
~ geography (i.e., ‘that which is a certain condition of the terrain’, or ‘that which is a certain condition of the land’)
• epiichi-mmaajiinaanwang gkendming ge-zhi-mmaajiinaanwang
epiichi-mmaajiinaanwang gkendming ge-zhi-mmaajiinaanwang
~ physical education (i.e., ‘finding out how to move, while one is moving’)
• mzin’higni-daawngewgamig
~ library (i.e., ‘book-borrowing-building’)
• mzakmigkwe nagkeyaa nnda-gkenjgewin
mzakmigkwe nagkeyaa nnda-gkenjgewin
~ land-based learning (i.e., ‘seeking to find out about things concerning earth-as-cosmological-grandmother’)
