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Rock and Roll Teacher Resources
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Students investigate a variety of sites to gather relevant information for a presentation about African American musical forms in this general Music lesson for middle school and high school. Resource links are provided to aid instruction.
Students explore music that exemplified the Civil Rights Movement. In this music and history lesson, students research 1960's protest songs, Motown recorded music, and rap of the 1990's to consider the power of music and its reflection on the social conscience.
Eighth graders discover different concepts for identifying musical structure and song form. In this Music History lesson, 8th graders compare and contrast a Red Hot Chili Peppers song to an Andrea Bocelli's song.
After responding to statements about the effects of exercise, pupils review scientific vocabulary and read a news article. According to the article, exercise can improve academic performance. Included in this resource are questions to assess comprehension, discussion ideas, and follow-up activities. Excellent!
Henry David Thoreau and Linda Ronstadt? Ann Tyler and Pete Townshend? Joyce Carol Oates and Pearl Jam? This richly detailed plan pairs classic literature with contemporary music and asks learners to analyze how the theme of conformity is developed in different mediums. Suggest parings and discussion questions are included.
It's October! Explore the month of October and the fall season with your youngsters. First, using Ladybug Magazine, they'll take a picture walk and list different things that they hear, smell, see, and touch in the fall. Then, they read several articles and poems in October's edition, completing the related assignments and activities for each reading. If you can get your hands on a copy of the magazine, you're set!
Second graders watch two episodes of PBS Kids Go and complete the associated discussions. They look for items that children climb on in the first episode they watch, and discuss sports in between watching sections of the second episode.
Young literary scholars explore the characters of Homer's epic work The Odyssey, as they learn about symbols, epithets, and static vs. dynamic characters. Your class will participate in a series of engaging discussions and activities in which they come to understand these concepts by applying them to a subject they already know very well, themselves! Finally, for further practice analyzing literary characters, they create a graphic organizer.
Twelfth graders define themselves through music. In this psychology lesson, 12th graders identify James Marcia's 4 states of identity and identify songs that reflect each of the states.
Fourth graders improvise music and dance to express their analysis of types of rocks. They discuss the three classes of rocks, list describing words, and create a short musical piece and dance to symbolize the rock they are dancing.