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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students do the basic steps required in the dance: grapevine (three steps and a touch - side, back, side, touch); and the "funky chicken" (placing your hands under your arms and flapping them (4 Counts) at the same time you click your heels (4 c Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students choose a minority culture or an event and research the musical influences of that culture or event on American popular music. They discuss how minority cultures and events in American society influenced the Disco era. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create their own song with lyrics. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students examine why disco and other forms of music were not widely accepted. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students examine the economics of a time period along with the music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 12th
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Students analyze lyrics of selected Disco songs for content, theme and vocabulary. They write an extended response citing specific lyrics in response to three general themes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore how each generation has sought to identify itself through the music of their time. They research how these identities were formed and what influence the various genres of music have had on this formation. Students gain insight into the significance of specific historical events that have had their footprints on lyrical content, instrumentation and compelling rhythms in music for decades. Full Review »
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- 5th - 9th
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Students examine classical music and the "Art Rock" of 1967. They review classical themes in their original genre and discuss/analyze how pop musicians incorporate theses themes into a variety of pop music genres. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students explore fitness through participation in a lifetime activity. They are shown the mechanics, scoring, etc for bowling. Students recieve PE twice a week during this time. They have what is called "Cosmic Bowling in PE" during their 4th session. Students bring in disco ball lights and parents and relatives come bowl with their child during their PE time. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students examine the types of music popular during the Carter presidency. In groups they research funk, disco, punk, and new wave styles of music, and find descriptions, artists, and dances associated with each type. At a "dance party" students present their findings to the class. Full Review »
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