Resource: The Hunting Dogs of Papua New Guinea
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QuickTime Video
Length: 3m 58s
Size: 11.0 MB
This video from Nature describes the history and uses of the dogs of Papua New Guinea. Men from the Akepangi tribe set out to hunt at dawn. They believe the dogs they take with them have supernatural abilities to track down prey. The dogs are called the singing dogs because they howl but do not bark. In the hunt, the dogs find an opossum in the canopy (upper layer of vegetation). The dogs are more valuable to the hunters than their bows and arrows. The tribe believes the dogs tell them where the evil spirits lie in the jungle.
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Loading reviews...Teachers' Domain, The Hunting Dogs of Papua New Guinea, published October 8, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.ws.style.huntingdog/
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Print Frame and FocusThe following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for elementary or middle school students using this video in an English language arts lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.
What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?
Frame (ELA) When you read a well-constructed paragraph, what does it include? How is it put together? How does the writer construct it so it makes sense to the reader? As a writer, what do we know about writing a paragraph? What do you think about when you construct the structure and content of a paragraph?
Focus (ELA) Today we are going to see a video about a tribe of people who use dogs to hunt in the jungle. View the video as if you were a reporter looking for a story to write for a newspaper or magazine. Think about how you would create an interesting, focused and well-constructed paragraph about the information in the video.
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Paragraph Development
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Source: Nature: "Dogs That Changed the World"
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