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Students play a vocabulary game with words from an article about Savion Glover's contribution to the film "Happy Feet." Then, small groups of students design and create original movie advertisements using vivid vocabulary to give Glover the recognition that the writer feels he deserves. They write a comparison of one of the newly designed advertisements with the official "Happy Feet" advertisement.
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- 1st Grade
Students, in small groups, are assigned parts of stories where they form "frozen pictures" with their own bodies to represent scenes and characters in the tale. Others create sound effects to accompany the tableau. The "frozen" students answer questions about their parts in the story when tapped on the shoulders. They act out other stories including"Click,Clack,Moo:Cows That Type," and "Where the Wild Things Are." They also engage in a series of "playground mysrteries."
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- 5th - 6th Grade
Students examine the contributions of the author Gwendolyn Brooks. They create a journal, read and discuss poems by Brooks, write a poem about themselves, and create a timeline of their own lives.
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- 5th - 12th Grade
Students explore the various rhythmic combinations in jazz and blues music. They watch a video segment, apply a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible rhythmic combinations, and perform a combination of notes and rhythm on a keyboard.
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- Kindergarten - 12th Grade
Students participate in growing plants to make musical instruments. In this cross curricular music/science/social studies lesson, students learn about the gourd and how cultures around the world used it to make an instrument. Students plant and create gourd instruments.
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- 1st - 2nd Grade
Students explore the concept of slavery and the development of the blues in music, art, and literature. This is a highly creative multidisciplinary unit for younger students to gain an understanding of African-American history.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students share ideas about cultural and/or spiritual rituals by participating in a fishbowl discussion, which explores the ways rituals have changed over time. They write reflective essays about their own cultural traditions.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students examine terrorist attacks in Amman, Jordan, and consider how events like these affect the global war against terrorism. They write reflective pieces exploring their own opinions about terrorism and the state of current affairs today.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students examine the elements that comprise a good story, and then, after reading about various performances for students taking place in New York City, envision their own performances in similar styles.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students examine and defend various positions in the argument over a book ban in the Miami-Dade school system and then write a letter to the Miami-Dade school board expressing their opinion about the issues raised in the debate.
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