Cultural Music Lessons (45 min.)
Lesson 4 Plan:
K/1 teachers would like our sessions to mirror the length of their lessons so we are moving from 30 minutes to 20minutes)
Ritual & Priming (5 Minutes):
Ritual & Priming (5 Minutes):
- Priming for short (a) and long vowel (aa) isolation later in lesson or next week:
- Music Teacher plays Haat Yee Aadéi asking students to stand up, welcome each other with a happy heart. Cultural specialist models boysʼ movements and music teacher the girlsʼ. Lesson 4 Powerpoints (K-1 and 2-5) are ready to go.
- Priming for short (a) and long vowel (aa) isolation later in lesson or next week:
- when students raise their hands to participate in the Wáa Sá iyatee dialogue, the cultural specialist asks if they are here and they respond “Yáadu x̱at”. This piece can wait until the classroom session so that classroom teachers learn to integrate this in their classroom as a way to take attendance.
- Focus on x̱ (tickling throat as a gesture for producing sound deep in throat)
- Cultural specialist speaks the song as a dialogue: first modeled with students muted and music teacher responding, then asking individual students to raise their hand if they would like to ask cultural specialist “Wáa Sá iyatee?
- This gives students another opportunity to hear “x̱at yakʼéi” spoken by cultural specialist before asking students to ask and respond to each other.
- For 2nd - 5th: Show students 2nd - 5th how to access music teacherʼs Canvas account to earn their first Digital Badge by pronouncing GVʼs Lingít name using Flipgrid. Highlight a studentʼs response.
- For K-1: Show students K-1 the Seesaw activity to earn their first Digital Badge by pronouncing GVʼs Lingít name. Highlight a studentʼs response.
- Here is the hook video embedded in both platforms.
For 2nd - 5th grades only (cont. from lesson above)
Hook for Reviewing Tribal Value: Oral Narrative: Raven Makes the Aleutians (5-7 minutes):
Introduce Language Practice Game (5 minutes): Jeopardy Game - Tribal Values and Voiceless "L" (for 45-minute classes only)
Questions, Comments and Connections (3 minutes):
Closing Ritual (2 minutes): Before closing, end with the Haat Yee Aadéi song as review and positive ending with successful learning. Music teacher puts up the lyrics so and highlights the words so that students can see and hear the Long (aa) and Short (a) sounds.
- Prompts for reading:
- Music teacher primes students for hearing a recording of Raven Makes the Aleutians in Lingít by a fluent speaker.
- While they are listening, they will practice the tribal value of Tlél sh yáa yeeydawóodliḵ (Donʼt be in a hurry) by tracing the water pattern around their border or following Mrs. Lehnhartʼs drawing from observation cycle to begin drawing raven). Mirroring just what Raven did in the story: showing patience in making the islands.
- Before hearing the story told 1x: Cultural specialist provides the background of the recording by Kaasgéiy Susie James (pg. 5). Explain what respect looks like when listening to an elder speak. We are preparing for an elder to visit us next week, so letʼs practice.
- Listen for the high and low tones. Can you hear the difference?
- Music teacher primes students for hearing a recording of Raven Makes the Aleutians in Lingít by a fluent speaker.
Introduce Language Practice Game (5 minutes): Jeopardy Game - Tribal Values and Voiceless "L" (for 45-minute classes only)
- To encourage speaking the language, students can double, triple, even quadruple their money by:
- saying "Yáadu x̱at" when called upon
- making the gesture that accompanies the vocabulary word
- pronouncing the word in Lingít
- pronouncing the word in Lingit with high tones
- Consider placing students in breakout rooms to review the list of vocabulary words for 2 minutes before playing the game
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 Haat Yee Aadéi song as review and positive ending with successful learning. Music teacher puts up the lyrics so and highlights the words so that students can see and hear the Long (aa) and Short (a) sounds.