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- Grade Range
- 8th - 12th
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Students listen and explore how African-American culture relates to learning Spanish as a foreign language. Poetry, music, and history are utilized while learning about Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students listen to Caribbean folk music and discuss maracas and their role in music. They construct and design pairs of maracas using paper mache, then perform a Puerto Rican folk song using their maracas. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students are introduced to indigenous musical forms, instruments and styles from Paraguay, Haiti, Brazil and Venezuela. They use singing, dance, improvisation and composition to replicate and explore the target music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students examine the Caribbean in terms of its music, art, and folklore. As a class, they listen to a folktale and discuss the difference between telling a story and reading a story. In groups, they write their own folktale and share it with the class. They use the internet to research what it was like to grow up in Cuba during the 1970s. To end the lesson, they view examples of artwork and reflect on them in their journals. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students examine the experiences of four immigrant groups. In groups, they brainstorm a list of misconceptions of those groups and discuss if they are still present today. Using maps, they locate the countries of Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Cuba and research why they left their home country. To end the lesson, they compare and contrast the music of the four countries. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students begin the lesson by listening and singing along to various songs from different cultures. In groups, they research the ways different groups have used music to express themselves and compare and contrast them in an organizer. They work together to create their own piece of music that represents their own culture. To end the lesson, they develop a new culture and another original piece of music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 12th
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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 »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students sample several types of music from the Hawaiian Islands. They listen to mele chants, religious himeni music, slack-key guitar playing and falsetto singing. Students are introduced to the influence of immigrants on Hawaiian music and discuss the historical context for each. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 10th
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Students are introduced to about Caribbean culture through the preparation and sampling of Caribbean food, as well as become familiar with Caribbean folk songs and poetry. They also experience blindness in order to form a deeper understanding of the novel Timothy of the Cay. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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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 »
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