Moving Melodies
(View Complete Item Description)Students sing and identify melodic contours.
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Performing and Arranging Using Our Voices
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore whispering, speaking, singing, and calling voices.
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Listening for Contrasts in Genre
(View Complete Item Description)Students create arrangements of a melody and listen to recordings contrasting in style and genre.
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Call and Response Songs
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore call and response songs through singing.
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Round Around The Room Mystery
(View Complete Item Description)Students identify phrases in a known song and create new patterns of music.
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Improvising with Our Voices
(View Complete Item Description)Students use their singing voices to take turns improvising and creating melodic phrases on a given theme.
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Exploring String Techniques
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore expressive qualities through various string techniques.
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Exploring the Sounds Around Us
(View Complete Item Description)Students listen to and describe sounds.
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Put Your Seat on the Beat
(View Complete Item Description)Students perform and create rhythmic patterns using their bodies.
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Theme and Variation
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore different ways to change a simple sentence and melody to understand the concept of theme and variation.
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Staff Hopscotch
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore relative pitch through listening and movement.
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Quartet Chief
(View Complete Item Description)Students form quartets to explore roles in an ensemble.
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Using Our Voices to Improvise
(View Complete Item Description)Students create nonsense syllables and improvise on a familiar or created melody.
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Benefits of Open Educational Resources
(View Complete Item Description)Brief document targeted to educators and school districts on the benefits of OER.
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The Comedy of Errors
(View Complete Item Description)The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "The Comedy of Errors" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
Material Type: Reading
Julius Caesar
(View Complete Item Description)The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "Julius Caesar" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
(View Complete Item Description)The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
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The Art and Ancient Tradition of Storytelling (Advanced Level)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will analyze scenes from the Trojan War that are visually depicted in an ancient object and an 18th-century painting. They will research an epic poem inspired by the Trojan War and write a literary response analyzing how themes and values in the poem reflect the historical context in which they were made. Finally, they will work in teams to reframe a tale from the Trojan War in a contemporary context -- visually and in poetry -- and recite the tale in a poetry slam.
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A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
(View Complete Item Description)Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
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Developing Story Structure With Paper-Bag Skits
(View Complete Item Description)Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.
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