Cultural Music Lessons (45 min.)
Lesson 1 Plan: Haa Ḵusteeyí Introduction & Tribal Values Chorus
Ritual & Priming (5 Minutes):
Introduction (5 Minutes):
Review (5 minutes):
New Learning (5-7 minutes): having primed them with Haa Ḵusteeyí Chorus at the start of the lesson, review each of the remaining Lingít words slide-by-slide using the Haa Ḵusteeyí SPOKEN Chorus. Students will repeat each word after the teacher models it with a gesture:
Gamify New Learning (5 minutes): Depending on time, play this game that gradually removes scaffolding.
Lesson Hook with Active Listening (5 minutes):
Hook for Language Learning (5 minutes):
Home and Classoom Extensions (3 minutes): Share the Language Games and Extension Activities tabs on the Haa Ḵusteeyí website. These tabs along with others listed under Remote Hub 2020 will be a place where students and families can find activities to do together at home or in the classroom (i.e. match game to learn Lingít words, scavenger hunt for connecting Lingít words to outside explorations).
Questions, Comments and Connections (3 minutes):
Closing Ritual (2 minutes): Before closing, end with the the Haa Ḵusteeyí chorus as review and positive ending with successful learning.
- Music Teachers plays the Haa Ḵusteeyí SUNG Chorus as students enter Zoom (or choose to use only audio). Ask them to listen while mimicking the gestures modeled by the cultural specialist. They should hear it at least 7 seven times before being asked to sing it. Lesson 1 Powerpoint is ready to go.
- Acknowledge students who are gesturing and helping others. After everyone has joined the class, ask how many entered Zoom using the Virtual Classroom (as this is the learning platform we would like kids to use to access stories, language games, language practice, songs and extensions).
Introduction (5 Minutes):
- Music Teacher: Thank everyone for coming and introduce ourselves. Share that these Wednesday times are for us to sing together, hear stories and play games while learning the language of this land: Lingít Aani.
- Wow! You just learned a new Lingít word Aaní - “Land” - which is one of the words or values of a song weʼre going to learn today. Value means something that you believe dearly in.
- Think about what you and your family hold dearly. What does Glacier Valley hold dearly? We review them in class and at assemblies: “Be kind, be fair, be safe. Take care of our space. With peace solve problems. Include everyone, weʼre done!
- Cultural Specialist: makes connection with elders and caretakers of knowledge/values. The land is so important to the Lingít people that itʼs a tribal value. Weʼre going to learn other tribal values through this song. What other values do the Lingít people value? (Move to individual slides providing image, gesture and text of Lingít value).
Review (5 minutes):
- Before we move to learning new Lingít words, letʼs share in a Lingít greeting song that we learned last year that teaches us how to ask, “How are You?”
- All of the students at Glacier Valley know the Wáa sá iyatee welcome song. Ask students to provide the echo while muted. In later lessons ask if anyone would like to sing back by unmuting.
- Show slide of Wáa Sá iyatee: cultural specialist leads and music teacher echoes, while students are muted and practicing along with the music teacher.
New Learning (5-7 minutes): having primed them with Haa Ḵusteeyí Chorus at the start of the lesson, review each of the remaining Lingít words slide-by-slide using the Haa Ḵusteeyí SPOKEN Chorus. Students will repeat each word after the teacher models it with a gesture:
- Haa Ḵusteeyí (Our Way of Life)
- Haa Aaní (Our Land)
- Haa Latseení (Our Strength)
- Haa Shuká (Our Land)
- Wooch Yáx̱ (Balance, Harmony)
Gamify New Learning (5 minutes): Depending on time, play this game that gradually removes scaffolding.
- Everyone sings (muted) and gestures along with the Haa Ḵusteeyí SUNG Chorus.
- Teacher speaks without gestures. Can students remember them? Are there students whom others can look for support?
- Teacher speaks the chorus out of order with no gestures to see if students can recreate the gesture without teacherʼs help.
- Everyone speaks together wth gestures to finish the game.
Lesson Hook with Active Listening (5 minutes):
- Ask students to listen for the five words we just learned in this creation story of Yéil Ḵaa G̱anook Heení (Raven and Petrelʼs Water). When they hear the word mentioned in the story, echo it back with the gesture.
- Play the recording of Yéil Ḵaa G̱anook Heení and monitor the screen to see if students identify and respond to those words.
Hook for Language Learning (5 minutes):
- Share the online Memory Games by modeling how the first game works entitled Haa Ḵuteeyí Chorus Memory Game. Let students know that there are three levels of challenge that they can do at home.
- Ask for their help as you work through the first game, which reviews all five core values.
- To help build engagement, teacher canʼt flip the next card until they see at least one student making the gesture connected to the audio or image. This builds leadership within the class and reinforces learning.
- Let them know that the next game focuses on words with a voiceless "L" which weʼll practice next. The third game is a combination of the words from both games: voiceless "L" and tribal values.
Home and Classoom Extensions (3 minutes): Share the Language Games and Extension Activities tabs on the Haa Ḵusteeyí website. These tabs along with others listed under Remote Hub 2020 will be a place where students and families can find activities to do together at home or in the classroom (i.e. match game to learn Lingít words, scavenger hunt for connecting Lingít words to outside explorations).
- Language Games: This weekʼs game is the Memory Game Match Game. Challenge them to try playing all three games by reaching the ASPIRE LEVEL.
- Extension Activities: While listening to Yéil Ḵaa G̱anook Heení (Raven and Petrelʼs Water) ask students to practice drawing raven. Then can use this How to Draw Raven video or draw from observation as starting points. Lesson 2 will introduce a Haa Ḵusteeyí Journal for students to use at home. This journal will be used throughout the year to document studentsʼ drawings, writing, summarizing, and Lingít language learning.
Questions, Comments and Connections (3 minutes):
- Ask the students if they have anything that theyʼd like to share with the group as way to connect, reflect and build relationships.
Closing Ritual (2 minutes): Before closing, end with the the Haa Ḵusteeyí chorus as review and positive ending with successful learning.