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Ode to Beethoven

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Lisa Gatewood

After learning about the life of composer Ludwig van Beethoven and listening to a variety of musical selections, the students will create an Ode to Beethoven to express their appreciation and knowledge for his life and musical talent. In addition, the students learned about the artist Andy Warhol, and will use this knowledge to create an art piece of Beethoven in the style of Warhol.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
English Language Learner, Language Arts, Performing Arts-Other, Technology, Visual Arts
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Art, Beethoven, Composer, Poetry
 
 
 

Tempo in Your Feet

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Jessica Grant

Students will be able to name and describe the following tempo markings: adagio, andante, moderato, allegro, and presto. They will be able to move kinesthetically at each named tempo, and be able to identify the tempo of a piece of music they hear by moving to the rhythm.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music
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Dynamics, Poetry, Rhythm, Sfskids.com, Tempo, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Poetry with Expression

Posted Feb 15, 2011 by Sarah Fix

Students will have a better understanding of how musical terms, dynamics and tempo, can apply to other disciplines. Students will use musical vocabulary to help determine how to read poems with greater voice and expression.

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GRADE LEVEL
All Levels
SUBJECT
Language Arts
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Dynamics, Poetry, Reading, Tempo, Vocabulary, Voice
 
 
 

Poetry Inspired by Music

Posted Apr 19, 2011 by John Schneider

Students will learn the structure of "March of the Trolls" by Grieg and compare it to the structure of a poem. Students will write a poem that has stanzas inspired by the themes in the music. Student will learn key vocabulary that is similar to or related between classical music and poetry.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts, English Language Learner
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Poetry, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Aaron Copland in the Heartland

Posted May 03, 2011 by Laura Knapp

Students will listen to Copland's Appalachian Spring while listening to a reading of Heartland by Diane Siebert. They will listen for sensory details in both the music and the literature. Students will then write their own poems and create a watercolor.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
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America, Art, Copland, Poetry
 
 
 

The Rhythm of Poetry: Part Two

Posted May 03, 2011 by John Schneider

Poetry is like a song. When you read poetry, you hear and feel different phrases and beats, created by the placement of punctuation and choice of words. As students listen to Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, third movement Alla Turca: Allegretto in A minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, they will hear how music also has phrases of different lengths and music notation that creates beats the listener will hear and feel. Students will learn how to critique poetry for its rhythm and beats, created by both word choice and punctuation.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts
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Dynamics, Poetry, Rhythm, Tempo, Voice
 
 
 

The Rhythm of Poetry: Part One

Posted May 03, 2011 by Erica Schmidt

Poetry is like a song. When you read poetry, you hear and feel different phrases and beats, created by the placement of punctuation and choice of words. As students listen to Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, third movement Alla Turca: Allegretto in A minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, they will hear how music also has phrases of different lengths and music notation that creates beats the listener will hear and feel. Students will learn how to write poetry that has rhythm and beats, created by both word choice and punctuation.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts
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Dynamics, Poetry, Rhythm, Tempo, Voice
 
 
 

Tempo and Dynamics Using Poetry and Music

Posted May 05, 2011 by Barbara Williams

Students will relate musical and poetic vocabulary. They will identify specific tempos and dynamics of musical excerpts from the San Francisco Symphony's Kids Website which correspond best to word pattern and meter of a chosen poem. Students will show understanding through reading/reciting their poem to appropriate background music.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Other
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Dynamics, Poetry, Tempo
 
 
 

Un Poema Musical

Posted Jul 06, 2011 by Monica Suyo

Students will create a poem in Spanish using different adjectives and emotion descriptors inspired by a classical music listening experience.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8 9-12
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Foreign Language
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TAGS
Beethoven, Poetry, Tchaikovsky
 
 
 

Take a Walk with Beethoven

Posted Aug 01, 2011 by Janet Henderson

After studying the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, students will listen to, become familiar with, and identify distinguishing characteristics of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, the "Pastoral". Selected landscape art will be explored and correlated with specific movements of the symphony. The sonnet, On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven by Edna St. Vincent Millay, will be interpreted. Student poetry elicted by an imagninary walk in the meadow with Beethoven will be illusutrated with their art.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Visual Arts
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Art, Beethoven, Poetry
 
 
 

Stravinsky: Our Words, Our Vision

Posted Aug 16, 2011 by Audra Peters

Students will engage with the music of Igor Stravinsky and write a cinquain poem to express their interpretation. Students will use different art mediums to draw their vision of his music.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Technology, Visual Arts, Special education
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Art, Poetry, Stravinsky
 
 
 
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