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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 12th
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Students analyze the lyrics of Peter, Paul and Mary songs that express themes of tolerance. 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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- 9th - 12th
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Students explain that, how in this world of increasing awareness and interdependence, music can act as a magnet to draw people together. They research and compare anti-war songs from many different generations. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze lyrics of their favorite songs as examples of alliteration, metaphor, Onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme, and simile to determine the purpose of these devices in poetry. They use their analysis to create a presentation and "teach" Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students listen to various genres of music and identify which elements of music or qualities of each genre make it unique. They also learn appropriate audience responses to performances of various music genres. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding Rock & Roll music, lyrics, drama and visual art and how they all help demonstrate examples of literary terms. They use Rock & Roll as an effective aid to stimulate their literary vocabulary and to broaden their knowledge about the art of writing. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students examine how certain types of music can evoke emotions and mental images. They fold a piece of paper into four equal sections, and create a picture of what they are visualizing in each section while listening to four different pieces of music. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students are introduced to a poetry unit by using pop music lyrics as a means of engaging the students. They analyze the music lyrics structurally and locate literary devices used by the music group. Students write a song using various literary devices. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students examine events of historical significance in music. In groups, they are given pieces of sheet music and work together to try to determine the social and political conditions of the time based on the lyrics. They write their own lyrics and create their own covers to explore a topic during the Progressive Era. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine how the creation and performance of music is affected by contextual influences. They specifically examine anthems and discuss the elements that contribute to that musical genre and how the nature of a piece of music may change over time. Full Review »

