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- 9th - 11th
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Students evaluate selected songs as effective tools for social protest and as an historical documents and describe the role music played in the civil rights movement of the 1960s; Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students experience artistic perception of rhythm in music and see how to move their bodies and tap their sticks to the rhythm of a particular song. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students examine video clips and Web sites related to relevant productions, study song lyrics, and compare and contrast actual history with Broadway history. They create lyrics for a new song based on a contemporary or historical figure or issue. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students analyze how social change has affected artistic expression and popular culture. the explain the influence of media on contemporary American culture. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students examine Sam Cooke's transition from gospel to pop music as they study his style. They dance the Cha Cha and the Twist. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate how art and music define and unify a social movement. They decide how art and music can act as symbols of protest. They view both contemporary and historical examples of art as a tool for protest and design an art project and an opera about a current social issue. Full Review »
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- 1st - 5th
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Students discover the significance of similarities and contrasts of three separate cultures of the United States through music. They take out maps and trace the expedition of the Spanish along the coasts of Mexico and North and South America and the Caribbean Islands. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students are introduced to the past and present cultures of the Anishinabe/Ojibwe people, the tribe's original and contemporary locations, and the meanings and history of their different names. The class then researches together the topic of historical migration of the Anishinabe/Ojibwe, and the lesson culminates with group research projects focusing on different aspects of the culture and traditions of this tribe. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students explore Balinese rindik Gamelan music. Students explore the cyclic patterns of rindik music. They compare and contrast this music to other forms of music. Students identify the music based on its Pentatonic scale and use that scale to create and play a simple tune. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create original music compositions and incorporate original text. They research the conventions of writing poetry and identify form in music from online resources. When they create the songs, they use contemporary software and multitrack recording techniques. Finally, students publish their work in two popular formats. They burn their song as an AIF file on a CD, and create an MP3. Full Review »
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