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The objective, then, for this lesson with "Tuaha" could be something like: "Students will be able to (SWBAT) gather and synthesize information related to the how climate change impacts one MN American Indian Tribe through the oral presentation of a guest speaker representing the local tribal indigenous community".
For Tuaha and his classmates, I would present the objective as an "I Can" statement using student-friendly language as follows: "I can synthesize the phenomena related to climate change presented by our guest speaker from our (local) tribal community." (See 2.3 Central Focus and Alignment linked here and in this handbook for details on how to create your own "I Can" statements for use with students). I would use this opportunity to familiarize my 11th graders with the term "phenomena", one of the academic language forms they should be able to use when talking about their gathered data.
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