Innovative Alphabet

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Innovative Alphabet
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Activity 2 Lesson Plan on CDCode Making

• Step 1
• The Code talker wants to transmit the word
  tank. He says over transmitter the Navajo word
  A-woh, which in English means tooth.
• Step 2
• The other code talker receives the message. He
  takes the first letter T from the English word
  tooth and writes it down.
• _T - __ - __ - __
• Step 3
• The first code talker says another Navajo word
  and takes the first letter from the English
  translation to create words and sentences.

Navajo Word Coded Word English Word
a-woh T Tooth
wo-la-chee A Ant
tsah N Needle
jad-ho-loni K Kettle
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Your Turn!

• Now that you have the code, decode the following
  Navajo transmissions.
• SHUSH/TSE NILL/D-AH/THAN ZIE/DIBEH-YAZZIE/AH-NAH
• ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
• DZEH/A-CHIN/AH-NAH/BE-TAS-TNI/TSAH-AS-ZIH
• ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
• Now create some code words of your own.

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• When the American flag was raised on top of Iwo
  Jimas mountain, the victory was announced in
  code to the American fleet
• Sheep-Uncle-Ram-Ice-Bear-Ant-Cat-Horse-Itch
• Use Navajo Code Talker dictionary handout.
• (What was transmitted?)

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Answer

• S-U-R-I-B-A-C-H-I
• The name of the mountain on Iwo Jima
• (description on pg. 96-99)