Group Exercise. With each of the Indian words in the list make one interesting sentence. This the teacher will write on the board. Then the entire class will make it as much better as possible. The teacher will write the improved sentence on the board under the other one. Thus, with the first word in the list, you might give this sentence:
The hunter saw a tepee.
The class tries to make the sentence more interesting. At last the following sentence is seen on the board:
The brave Indian hunter saw a large new tepee in the woods.
16. More Telling about Indians
One way of starting fire was for several of the boys to sit in a circle and, one after another, to rub two pieces of dry, spongy wood together until the wood caught fire.—Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), "Indian Child Life"
FLINT KNIVES
Oral Exercise. 1. Do you know in what kind of houses the Indians lived? Explain to the class how large you think an Indian house was, how it was made, and what kind of door it had. If you can, draw on the board a picture of the tepee about which you are talking.