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- Grade Range
- 7th - 9th
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Students carefully listen to and analyze music based on instrumentation, rhythms, pitch, intensity, timbre and texture. After listening multiple times, students write down their impressions of the music based on questions imbedded in this plan. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - Higher Ed
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Students listen to an original recording of Louis Armstrong and discuss instrumentation. They identify an AABA song form as they listen. They list similarities between the following: traditional meets modern and small group vs. big band. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the development of iams' music and also the place that iams holds in American musical history. They study a traditional jazz combo and the phenomenon of an African-American female artist living in the 20th century. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students answer a list of questions giving a price list using their addition, multiplication, division and subtraction skills. They use a worksheet based on the Jazz Fest. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine how the change in music reflected the cultural revolution of the 1920s. They compare/contrast music from the turn of the century and the Jazz Age, and in small groups write and produce a short radio show that demonstrates 1920s culture. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students identify integral parts of jazz music by listening to Quincy Jones' We Be Doin' It. They note the bass and drum sounds, scat solos, and also sing parts of the ostinato and chorus. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the musical styles of call and response and the blues while delving into the difficult lives of many jazz musicians. Travelling in the South was challenging for black musicians during this time and the difficulties are explored in this l Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 11th
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Students work cooperatively to create a jazz composition using the computer program GarageBand and incorporating the musical stylings of musician Louis Armstrong. Internet access is required for this lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students encounter the life and art of Piet Mondrian, his style influenced by jazz music and his technique using spatial concepts. They create a painting in Mondrian's non-objective style. The foundation that art, music, design and math have connections we may not have thought about is studied. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students practice techniques for putting expression in their reading in order to increase their fluency and joy in reading. They listen as the teacher reads a story in monotone, and then with some jazz. Next students duplicate the actions of the teacher. They read a passage with expression for an assessment. Full Review »
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