東京理科大学 Listening & Speaking 1a: Totem poles・トーテムポール

Hello!

How are you? Look at the picture above. It's of a totem pole. What's a totem pole? 

Totem poles are unique to the Pacific coast native Americans and Canadian First Nations people in the U.S., in northern California, Oregon, Washington state, and southeast Alaska, and in Canada, in British Columbia. The totem poles tell stories, in picture carvings, about nature, events that happened, life, and other things important in the culture of the Pacific Coast people. 

Here are some more pictures and details of totem poles:

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In the circle in pink on the map, here are the parts of the U.S. and Canada where the Pacific Coast indigenous people (先民族) are from: 

Discussion circles 
Here are the discussion circles questions and vocabulary about totem poles. 

Please remember that if there are only three (3) members in your group, the leader should also be the vocabulary master. The details master or summarizer should then ask the leader about vocabulary. 

Leader questions

For the summarizer

Are you ready to summarize the reading/CD talk? (Can you give us your summary of the reading/CD talk?) 

For the details master

1. What are totem poles?

2. Who made them, and where? 

3. What do totem poles show? 

4. What kind of characteristics are associated with bears? 

(Leaders - think of two (2) more questions of your own from the lecture or reading to ask the details master!)

For the vocabulary master

Who are First Nations people? 

What is a cedar? 

What does sneaky mean? 

What does determination mean? 

(Leaders - think of two (2) more words of your own from the lecture or reading to ask the vocabulary master!)

I hope this helps you with your understanding about this topic. 

Here are the board notes for our class today on 6/17:

See you next time!

Images: Top - by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:H - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Totem_Park_pole_1.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2405610/2. By Jerzy Strzelecki - http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3112590/3. By Mark Byzewski - 005 (2)a, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54628069/4. By User: Husky22 at wikivoyage shared, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23224106/Map - screenshot taken of photograph courtesy of the Harper College website.
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