Rhythm and Song

Abstract

With this curriculum unit, the students will see others alike in stories and hear their traditional language firsthand, allowing them to feel comfortable expressing themselves in other outlets such as dramatic play or drawing of themselves in the art center. In this way, the students will also increase their self-awareness of recognizing they are teachers. Self-awareness is as crucial as self-identity. Self-awareness teaches young people to recognize their strengths and weaknesses and judge their character (Improving Your Child’s Self-Awareness Skills, n.d.). Using the language would increase the students’ vocabulary, sentence structures, and cognitive skills to recall information. I hope the students will learn at least one song entirely in Navajo so they can feel confident in learning other words and phrases. They can also teach their family, which would give the students the confidence to express themselves in a new healthy way.