To prepare your students for the Class Notes concert, you can view the following Class Notes videos:

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1 Hello Teachers This guide was created to help you make the most of your Class Notes Artists visit. The goal of the concert experience is to inspire, motivate, and entertain students through live performance. This curriculum is comprised of a PowerPoint presentation and this Teacher s Guide. The curriculum supports the concert experience by extracting several concepts or ideas directly related to the concert and its contents. Activities and information about these concepts align with Minnesota music standards and help make music come alive for students. These concepts provide focus and establish learning goals that connect to the concert experience. Each concept is explored in three ways: Learn, Listen, and Do. Visuals, audio, and information for the Listen and Learn components are presented in the PowerPoint. There are Lesson/Activity plans that correspond with the Do section in this Teacher s Guide. The core ideas/concepts for Class Notes Artists: Lyz Jaakola are:. 1. Students will listen to and identify various styles/genres performed by Lyz Jaakola. 2. Students will learn basic facts about Ojibwe-Anishinaabe people. 3. Students will learn characteristics of traditional Ojibwe-Anishinaabe music. To prepare your students for the Class Notes concert, you can view the following Class Notes videos: What to do a Concert: Teaching Appreciation and Understanding for Native American Music and Culture with Lyz Jaakola: Teaching American Indian Music, Arts, Culture, and Traditions: IAWGuVLi9lMS Here are several additional references on the performer and Native American music education:

2 OJIBWE-ANISHINAABE HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY LESSON/ACTIVITY PLAN OBJECTIVES: 1. Students will learn basic facts about the history and geography of the Ojibwe-Anishinaabe people. ACTIVITIES: 1. Explain that the Ojibwe-Anishinaabe people (also known in English as Chippewa ) primarily settled around Lake Superior. Use this map from Wikimedia Commons to give a visual sense of where these areas are (depicted by the pink and red). Other Anishinaabe peoples (depicted in violet, green, purple, blue, and orange) settled in adjacent areas of the entire Great Lakes region. 2. Using the map on the following page, introduce the name and location of each of the seven Ojibwe-Anishinaabe reservations in Minnesota: a. Red Lake b. White Earth c. Grand Portage d. Fond du Lac e. Leech Lake f. Bois Forte g. Mille Lacs

3 3. Assign each student or a small group one of the seven Ojibwe- Anishinaabe tribes in Minnesota. Using web resources, ask them to find as many of the answers as possible to the following questions. Add your own questions or modify them to suit the needs of your classroom. How many people are enrolled and/or live on the reservation? What is the area (in square acres) of the reservation? Describe or attach to a given tribe a picture of its tribal flag. List seven interesting or unique facts about a given tribe.

4 STANDARDS: This activity correlates most closely with the following music education standard. Consult with social studies teachers to find overlap with standards in other areas. 1. Grades K Artistic Foundations. 3. Demonstrate understanding of the personal, social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the arts areas. Music Identify the characteristics of music from a variety of cultures including contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities. 2. Grades Artistic Foundations. 3. Demonstrate understanding of the personal, social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the arts areas. Music Describe the cultural and historical traditions of music including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

5 IDENTIFY STYLE LESSON/ACTIVITY PLAN OBJECTIVES: 1. Students will identify various styles of music through listening. 2. Students will describe characteristics of the following kinds of music: ACTIVITIES: a. Opera b. Choral music c. Jazz/scat singing d. Blues e. Traditional Native American music of the Ojibwe-Anishinaabe people 1. Explain that musician Lyz Jaakola performs music in a wide variety of styles. Each style has some features that are shared with other styles and some qualities that are unique. 2. Introduce each style that Lyz Jaakola performs with this chart, accompanied by audio and visual examples. OPERA CHORAL MUSIC JAZZ/SCAT BLUES OJIBWE- ANISHINAABE MUSIC Includes a mix of solo and ensemble singing Ornate, elaborate melodies Often accompanied by full chamber orchestra Dramatic storytelling plot Often includes four voice parts Western choral music often uses tonal harmony May have piano accompaniment Often led by a conductor Features improvisation Uses made up nonsense words Often accompanied by jazz instrumentation Highly rhythmic delivery Repeated phrases and lyrics Melodies use the Blues scale Often accompanied by rock instrumentation Strong rhythmic presence Repeated phrases Use of vocables Often accompanied by drumming Melody notes fall outside Major/minor tonality

6 3. Using the examples cited below- or ones of your own choosing, ask students to use the chart to identify the style they see and hear. OPERA From The Marriage of Figaro: From Nixon in China: From Madame Butterfly: CHORAL The St. Olaf Choir singing Shenandoah: The Chicago Children s Choir sings the Sanctus from Fauré s Requiem: The Soweto Gospel Choir sings Amazing Grace: JAZZ/SCAT Here s Ella Fitzgerald scat singing: And here s a resource for a whole bunch of scat singing videos: BLUES Here s Lyz Jaakola singing her version of the blues: And here she is again: TRADITIONAL OJIBWE-ANISHINAABE SINGING Finally, here s Lyz Jaakola singing Native music along with some drumming: Here s an Ojibwe Bear Song: And the Strong Woman Song: STANDARDS: This activity correlates most closely with the following music education standards. 1. Grades K Artistic Foundations. 3. Demonstrate understanding of the personal, social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the arts areas. Music Identify the characteristics of music from a variety of cultures including contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities. 2. Grades Artistic Foundations. 3. Demonstrate understanding of the personal, social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the arts areas. Music Describe the cultural and historical traditions of music including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

7 Ojibwe language and traditional song site We hope you find that these tools enrich the concert experience for your students.

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