Language Arts

Stravinsky: Our Words, Our Vision

Posted Aug 16, 2011 by Audra Peters

Students will engage with the music of Igor Stravinsky and write a cinquain poem to express their interpretation. Students will use different art mediums to draw their vision of his music.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Technology, Visual Arts, Special education

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TAGS
Art, Poetry, Stravinsky

Take a Walk with Beethoven

Posted Aug 01, 2011 by Janet Henderson

After studying the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, students will listen to, become familiar with, and identify distinguishing characteristics of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, the "Pastoral". Selected landscape art will be explored and correlated with specific movements of the symphony. The sonnet, On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven by Edna St. Vincent Millay, will be interpreted. Student poetry elicted by an imagninary walk in the meadow with Beethoven will be illusutrated with their art.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Visual Arts

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TAGS
Art, Beethoven, Poetry

Cooperating Families, Cooperating Classrooms

Posted Jul 10, 2011 by Diane Immethun

To accomplish goals, members of families must cooperate, just as members of the orchestra must cooperate to create beautiful music. Similarly, students in a classroom have similar constructs; everyone must do their best for themselves as well as for the good of the whole. This lesson helps students understand that an orchestra, a family and a classroom must work together to accomplish great things.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts

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TAGS
Art, Instruments, Orchestra

Nature’s Adaptations Join Beethoven’s Ode to Joy Variations

Posted Jul 07, 2011 by Donna Natseway

Students will recognize and identify the sounds of different orchestral instruments; learn and use the tempo markings from the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9; research the similarities between adaptations in nature and variations in music/visual art; and create visual art which illustrates the connection among natural adaptations and music variations.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Visual Arts, Life Science

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0

TAGS
Animals, Beethoven, Instruments

Music through the Ears of Beethoven

Posted Jul 07, 2011 by Jennifer Potts

Using Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, students will discover how difficult it is to compose music with a hearing loss. Children will develop an understanding of overcoming disabilities and preserving through life's struggles. Students will learn how to compose four bars of music using 4-4 time.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Social Science, Special education

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0

TAGS
Beethoven, Biography, History, Tempo

Musical Polygons

Posted Jul 06, 2011 by Scott Nielsen

Drawing upon prior knowledge of polygons - their attributes and area - students will understand that music has a pulse which can be counted and related to geometric shapes.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Math

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0

TAGS
Beethoven, Copland, Rhythm, Tempo

The Poetry of Present Progressive Verbs

Posted Jun 15, 2011 by Cate Malone

Students will be able to create lists of different parts of speech after listening to Rodeo, Hoe-Down by Aaron Copland. Students will use these different parts of speech to create a free verse poem.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Language Arts, English Language Learner

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TAGS
Copland, Vocabulary

Peter and the Wolf, Arizona Style

Posted Jun 15, 2011 by Cate Malone

Students study the elements of story, idea and voice in writing, and listen to the story and music of Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev. Students will re-write the story of Peter and the Wolf by changing the setting to the desert habitat. Students will understand that they need to change the characters to those which would inhabit this setting.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Language Arts

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0

TAGS
Animals, Geography, Instruments, Voice

Compare and Contrast Composers

Posted Jun 15, 2011 by Stephanie LaPlante

Students will create a visual representation of what they think about, or feel from the music of Copland and Stravinsky. After reading books from the series Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers, students will use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two composers (Stravinsky and Copland), their music, and the time period in which they lived to create a paragraph comparing the two composers.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts

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0

TAGS
Composer, Copland, Stravinsky

Duke Ellington and the Nutcracker Suite

Posted Jun 07, 2011 by Heidi Aarts Michels

Students will be introduced to the great jazz composer and band leader, Duke Ellington by listening to his re-composed, re-orchestrated version of Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, following a previously taught thematic lesson about Tchaikovsky's classic. Students use there prior knowledge of musical concepts and the instrumentation of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite to recognize similar melodies in Ellington's work to that of Tchaikovsky. Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0.1MB)

GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts

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0

TAGS
America, Brass, Instruments, Jazz, Melody, Orchestra, Tchaikovsky