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- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students research the lyrical and dramatic structure of opera through Internet sources and audio examples, cooperatively discuss elements of opera stories vs. their own lives and create one-act opera based on their own life experiences. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 6th
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Students create music that celebrates the excitement of making new friends. They tell or write stories about their friends and the music they created for a classroom music program. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students study how to use video clips to enrich lessons about opera and social issues. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students are introduced to a brief history of musical theater in America. They listen to various pieces of music, watch videos, and study their composers and lyricists. 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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- 11th - 12th
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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 »
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- 8th
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Students investigate how historical events tie to musical periods of the past and present (setting), how larger works can contain smaller sections, how to listen for these smaller sections, how to identify major tonalities (keys) and how music vocabulary is used in the process. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 12th
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Students examine the interconnectedness of different art forms. They listen to music and watch a video while determining the similarities of the themes. They make connections between books, movies, opera, dance, and music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students engage in a lesson that covers the historical and cultural context of music and how it is created. They listen to a variety of pieces in an attempt to appreciate cultural differences. Students write a reflection about how music influences their daily lives. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students are introduced to opera, its vocabulary, definitions and are given an opportunity to listen to an opera sung by children. They identify phrases and events in the story, "The Emperor's New Clothes." Each student creates a movement to go along with a phrase or event from the story. Full Review »
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