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106 1960's folk music Lesson Plans

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Grade Range
6th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students explore the importance of folk music is various ethnic cultures. Full Review »

Grade Range
8th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students read about Woody Guthrie and how folk music often tells of events of the time and can be effective protest music. Full Review »

Grade Range
7th - 12th
Rating
4 Stars

Students use the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young to examine Folk music. Full Review »

Grade Range
9th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students identify popular songs from 1968 era and analyze some of the topical and musical elements. They focus on social protest songs and other songs of social conscious. Full Review »

Grade Range
11th - 12th
Rating
5 Stars

Students identify different genres of music popular in the 80's and 90's. They identify the current issues and musical elements that made them popular. They make comparisons to music of the 60's. Full Review »

Grade Range
9th - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

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 »

Grade Range
11th - 12th
Rating
4 Stars

Students listen to and discuss music relating to the Women's Liberation Movement. They write essays about their experiences when they saw something in a new way. Students participate in acting out a scene about someone who wants something that he/she can not have. Full Review »

Grade Range
3rd - 12th
Rating
3 Stars

Students listen to a variety of Bahamian music. They sample story songs, religious music, goombay music and renowned Bahamian guitarists. Students are introduced to the historical and social context for each type of music. Full Review »

Grade Range
10th
Rating
3 Stars

Students discover how folk music was used as protest music in the 1960s and 1970s. As a class, they sing an alternative version of "Rock-A-Bye Baby". They discuss why the song was useful for the protesters and identify the other genres within American folk music. Full Review »

Grade Range
4th - 8th
Rating
4 Stars

Students identify and interpret the styles and elements of music in three major folk regions of Louisiana within specific traditional music genres. Then they hear the diversity of music in the state and identify the major genres of traditional music by how they sound and where they most ofter occur. Students also identify the context within which to consider their own musical landscapes that they look for and listen to different versions of songs. Full Review »