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Hour# 1- Introduction: Artist and Students introduce themselves sitting in a horse shoe facing <br /> Artist. <br /> - students look for Sierra Leon/West Africa on the globe <br /> Hour#2 <br /> Hand-on drumming: <br /> Hands-on drumming technique in a drum circle with a variety of traditional West African <br /> instruments <br /> Objective: to explore the language of the Djembe drum and poly-rhythm through team work, <br /> listening, and having fun. <br /> Names instruments you know around the world? <br /> What's music? <br /> What's a rhythym? <br /> Why do musicians tap their feet on the ground when they play music? <br /> Music is about many things. Name one of them? <br /> What's poly, and mono rhythym? <br /> Say this after me: if you can say it, you can play it. <br /> Bass-Bass, tone-tone, slap-slap <br /> But if you can say it, you can play it with your hands. <br /> Goon-goon-go-do-Kpa-ta: That's the language of the Djembe drum. <br /> GOON-GOON, GO-DO, GO-DO GO-DO, GOON-GOON. (the language of the Djembe drum <br /> traditional drum theory...) <br /> - take turns to tell things they know about Africa <br /> - Artist introduce the week and what students will expect each day <br /> - Students ask questions about Artist's childhood days in S/L <br /> - Lay-lay-vaa (a song and circle dance)follow the leader in the middle, dances to the <br /> drum beat, and the others in the circle copy he/her movement. <br /> Objective: to learn about world history as well as getting-to-know-one-another. <br /> We talk about similarities in cultures, not difference. <br /> Hour#3 <br /> Interactive games: <br /> What kind of games children play in America? <br /> Do you know any game children play in other parts of the world? <br /> Why do children play games? <br />