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Music and Me: Using My Song About Me to Better Understand Myself, Others and Music

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Sonya Fergeson

Students use music they already know and love to learn about the language and expression of music. Students will select an autobiographical piece of music that represents who they are, what is important to them, what they value, and how they would like to be perceived by others.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts

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TAGS
Biography, Song

Adventures in Treble Clef

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Carmen Cobler

Through reading the story Freddy the Frog and the Thump in the Night by Sharon Burch, students will discover how to read music notes in the treble clef and then will learn to perform simple songs on xylophones.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Math

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TAGS
Dynamics, Rhythm, Song, Tempo

American Civil War Songs

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Pat Miller

Music was one way the soldiers of the American Civil War could both pass the time and remember home and family. They whistled or sang familiar songs while performing menial duties, and some played instruments such as harmonicas and fiddles during their free time. Students will compare and contrast a Union song and a Confederate song, and see firsthand what these soldiers were experiencing.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8 9-12

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science

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TAGS
History, Instruments, Song, Story, War

The American Five - Pentatonic scales in early American melodies

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Mike Ogdon

Students will learn to recognize a five-tone scale. Students will sing or perform known American folksongs together in class. Advanced students will be able to identify all five pitches and even discern the actual pentatonic scale being used.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science

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TAGS
Copland, History, Melody, Pitch, Song

By the Great Horn Spoon!

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Carolyn Roberts

Students will complete two language arts activities for this lesson. In the first activity, students use folk songs from the era of the California Gold Rush, which are introduced in the early chapters of By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleishman, to identify folk song motifs in the classical music of Antonín Dvořák. This will be explored by the students' creation of a labeled line drawing of one of Dvořák 's compositions.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music

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TAGS
America, Composer, Folk songs, History, Literature, Reading, Song

Ballad for Americans

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Claudia Rhymes

After learning about the Great Depression and the New Deal as part of a Social Science unit, students will explore the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal One Program that operated from 1935-1943. The Federal Art Project (FAP) was one arm of the WPA and included the Theater Project called "Sing for Your Supper". The song Ballad for Americans (formerly Ballad for Uncle Sam) was written for this project. Students will watch and listen to Paul Robeson sing Ballad for Americans from an online video.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Social Science, Technology, Visual Arts

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TAGS
History, Reading, Song

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