Language Arts

Hero or Tyrant: Connecting Beethoven’s Third Symphony to Napoleon, Part Two

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Jeff Reed

Develop students’ critical thinking and writing in world history classes studying the age of democratic revolutions by engaging them in a series of deep listening activities that link the second and third movements of Eroica, Beethoven's Symphony No.3 to relevant content standards in World History and Language Arts.  Students will improve their ability to engage in five minutes of deep listening to music; participate in the 5-minute to 15-minute class discussions that follow; listen to and write down the ideas of fellow students in Cornell bulleted notes; and sp

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9-12
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Social Science
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Beethoven, History, War
 
 
 

Hero or Tyrant: Connecting Beethoven’s Third Symphony to Napoleon, Part One

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Jeff Reed

Engage students studying the Age of Democratic Revolutions in a series of deep listening activities to the second and third movements of Eroica, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 to help develop their critical thinking, listening and writing skills on World History content standards. Students gain a deeper understanding of democratic ideals from the American and French Revolutions, having had more time thinking about how to frame and explain the events and upheavals taking place.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Social Science
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Beethoven, History, War
 
 
 

Getting Inside Beethoven

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Bonnie Raines

Students will develop the ability to articulate moods and imagery in music through poetry. They will be able to do this through comparing and contrasting two pieces of Beethoven's music via language and movement. They will depict Beethoven in an art piece and learn about his life.

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All Levels
SUBJECT
English Language Learner, Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts
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Art, Beethoven, Biography, History, Poetry
 
 
 

Ballad for Americans

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Claudia Rhymes

After learning about the Great Depression and the New Deal as part of a Social Science unit, students will explore the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal One Program that operated from 1935-1943. The Federal Art Project (FAP) was one arm of the WPA and included the Theater Project called "Sing for Your Supper". The song Ballad for Americans (formerly Ballad for Uncle Sam) was written for this project. Students will watch and listen to Paul Robeson sing Ballad for Americans from an online video.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Social Science, Technology, Visual Arts
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History, Reading, Song
 
 
 

Stravinsky and the Firebird

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Bonnie Raines

This lesson integrates language arts with visual and performing arts. Students immerse themselves in the world of the Russian folktale, The Firebird, and then explore other avenues of appreciating the tale through listening and dancing to Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, as well as engaging in theater and visual arts activities.

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3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts
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Art, Dance, Literature, Poetry, Reading, Stravinsky
 
 
 

Graphing Beethoven's Emotions

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Tammy Chapman

Students will discuss emotion words. They will look up synonyms for emotion words. They will then listen to the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and discuss the emotions they hear. Discussion about instrument families and dynamics will take place to help students decide why the song gives certain emotions. After several times listening to the music students will create a graph of the emotions they hear in the music.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Math
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Beethoven, Dynamics, Instruments, Sfskids.com, Vocabulary
 
 
 

By the Great Horn Spoon!

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Carolyn Roberts

Students will complete two language arts activities for this lesson. In the first activity, students use folk songs from the era of the California Gold Rush, which are introduced in the early chapters of By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleishman, to identify folk song motifs in the classical music of Antonín Dvořák. This will be explored by the students' creation of a labeled line drawing of one of Dvořák 's compositions.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music
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America, Composer, Folk songs, History, Literature, Reading, Song
 
 
 

Waltz by Three's

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Rachel Belmon

Students will review the life of Beethoven leading to a discussion about Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Students will learn to waltz and will practice skip-counting by 3’s to Moonlight Sonata.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
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Beethoven, Composer, Dance, Tempo
 
 
 

Leaves in the Key of Autumn

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Adele Sato

Students listen to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Autumn, and describe emotion, tempo, and dynamics. Students engage kinesthetically as they move to the music and learn about the composer. Students learn the scientific reasons for fall leaves changing color.  Students sing the poem "Little Leaves" to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle and the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Students do a choral reading of "Colors of Fall." Students will collect real autumn leaves, then draw and paint them as their interpretation of Vivaldi's Autumn.

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PK-2 3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Visual Arts, Science
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Art, Dynamics, Poetry, Tempo
 
 
 

Composition in Letter and Song: Ode to Beethoven

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Sonya Fergeson

This lesson is designed to help students gain understanding of Beethoven and his music. We will research Beethoven’s life and music and will compose a letter to him. We will discuss how Beethoven used instrumentation or timbre, dynamics and tempo, and other elements of music to evoke a large variety of emotions for those listening to his music. We will then use the book Sing My Song: A Kid’s Guide to Songwriting by Steve Seskin, to work collaboratively to compose a song with a message that we feel is important to our listeners.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8 9-12
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
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Beethoven, Dynamics, Instruments, Tempo
 
 
 
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