Cultural Music Lesson Framework:

 This framework will be used/adapted for every weekly Cultural Music Lesson held on Wednesdays.

1. Ritual & Priming: Open each Live Zoom with an audio/video clip related to the value that the students will learn for that day. Ask them to listen while mimicking the gestures so as to hear it at least 7 seven times before being asked to sing it.
2. Review: Having something familiar early on in the lesson provides comfort and security. Then move into something novel that keeps their attention.
3. New Learning:  having primed them with new material at the start of the lesson, take this material apart for deeper understanding and practice, slide-by-slide.
4. Gamify New Learning: Depending on time, play this game that gradually removes scaffolding.
   1. Everyone speaks/sings (muted) and gestures along with the vocabulary list.
   2. Teacher speaks without gestures. Can students remember them? Are there students whom others can look for support?
   3. Teacher speaks words out of order with no gestures to see if students can recreate the gesture without teacherʼs help.
   4. Everyone speaks together with gestures to finish the game.
5. Lesson Hook with Active Listening:  Oral storytelling is the way in which Lingít stories and life lessons are passed down from generation to generation.
   1. Ask students to listen for the words just learned in story. When they hear the word mentioned in the recorded story, they echo it back with the gesture. OR
   2. For 2nd reading (next class): ask them to draw an image of the story in their Haa Ḵusteeyí journals. 
6. Hook for Extended Language Learning at Home:
   1. Share the online Memory Games by modeling the first game.  Let students know that there are three levels of challenge that they can do at home.
   2. 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.
      
7. Transition to Language Practice: (Optional Movement Break) ask students to stand up, sing one of the songs theyʼve learned.
   1. Hook for Language Learning: Share the online Memory Games by modeling how the first game works
   2. Focused Language Learning: On the slide, ask students to echo back each of the vowels and then the new sound: voiceless "L"
8. Home and Classroom Extensions: 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).
9. Closing Ritual:  Provide a teachable moment about Lingít music before ending with an authentic Lingít song where students can move and dance.