1. Code Talker – Ch. 8-12

2. Chapter 8: “New Recruits”
“… I was not part of the first Navajo platoon, those twenty-nine men who developed out secret code.”
Is this foreshadowing?

3. More information about those 29 men
The first all-Navajo platoon
“It was as if they had fallen off the face of the earth …”

4. One of the men returns four months later
His name?
Johnny Manuelito
Others were sent overseas but he stayed as instructor

5. Figurative language
“… his words reverberated in my mind like drumbeats”
“He looked like an eagle staring down from a high mountain crag …”

6. “Soon you may be called up to fight by the draft.”
the draft: conscription

7. Chapter 9: “The Blessingway”
“The Blessingway is done for all that is good. That is its only purpose.”

8. Who is … Big Schoolboy Olta’i’ Tsoh Frank Mitchell Hosteen
Hosteen Mitchell
Wóláchíí

10. Inference Page 52: Hosteen Mitchell begins to tell a story
“[He] flicked the reins to encourage the hosrse as they pulled us up the hill. When we reached the top, he continued his tale.”
What Navajo values does this show?

11. How does the family find out when the Blessingway will be?
How long does it last?
Where does it happen?
What happens during Blessingway?

21. Chapter 10: “Boot Camp”

23. Remember – how did Navajo children show respect in mission school
Remember – how did Navajo children show respect in mission school? Think about eye contact
What is an important cultural value for Navajos? Think about Hosteen Mitchell

25. Important Character:
Georgia Boy

26. Chapter 11: “Code School”
Based on the title– what will happen in this chapter?

27. Chapter 12: “Learning the Code”
Based on the title– what will happen in this chapter?