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This lesson will enable students to use the blues to explore urbanization, technology, and their effects on everyday life in the 20th century. Musicians were among the large number of people who, between 1914 and 1945, participated in the Great Migration, Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify different genres of music popular in the 1980s. They study musicians of the 1980s examples of the songs that they made popular. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to categorize the music. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss how musicians' messages can influence society. They think of examples of artistic expression in music, the visual arts, dance, and theater that can lead to a society's self-examination. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore and investigate the foundation and history of jazz music. They listen to various pieces of music while creating drawings, develop a timeline of jazz history, and read and discuss biographies of famous jazz musicians. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students explore history of technological advances in making, recording, and listening to music that have intrigued and inspired musicians and scientists for decades. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students browse current issues of Targetnewspaper and their local newspaper and look for articles/advertisements featuring jazz, blues, funk, hip-hop, gospel or ragtime musicians. They discuss the African American roots in these types of music. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students develop an appreciation for modern black music from a historical, political and lyrical perspective. They examine the political and the historical surge of the civil rights movement of the 1960's and how this surge directly or indirectly affected black musicians, who in turn affected the black population of America during this period. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students compose a written music review of one of today's popular bluegrass musicians after they read online essays and journals about the modern bluegrass music scene look over and discuss recent music reviews Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students examine the life of Mozart as a young boy. After singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", they practice reading interview questions they would want to ask Mozart if he were still alive. They practice using new vocabulary and singing variations of "Twinkle, Twinkle". Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students explore famous African-Americans such as civil rights leaders, authors, musicians, athletes, and government officials. As they discuss each leader, students examine the contribution the famous person made to their community and the country. Using the internet, or other source, students research a particular famous person. Full Review »
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