KEEPING SCORE LESSON PLANS
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Connects Music to English (continued)
Rankin Creating a Musical Podcast
Students will understand that by utilizing Garage Band technology, they will be able to record and broadcast their own podcast musical play, downloadable for public listening. 		  X    
Rankin Creating a Musical Score for Literature Text Using Garage Band and Smartboard Technology
Students will understand that musical instruments can represent literary characters, and story lines can be described using musical terminology describing tempo and dynamics. Students will also assign a tempo and dynamic range for various sections of the book The BFG by Roald Dahl. 		  X    
Wallentin Der Erlkoenig
Students will recognize various voices in the poem, Der Erlkoenig, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and musical setting by Schubert and in the song, Dalai Llama, by Rammstein; comprehend new vocabulary contained in the lyrics of the Goethe poem and the Rammstein song; compare and contrast the voices in the two sets of lyrics; and recognize and interpret the emotional charge conveyed through pitch, tempo and rhythm. 		X      
Linder Elements of Music Structure: Theme
Using music to teach narrative structure, with special emphasis on helping ELD and Title I students are able to conceptualize what is taking place.   		  X    
Lee Expressive Meaning
Students will work cooperatively to understand the meaning of words and phrases in the National Anthem. 		      X
Hadden and Wilson Figurative Language in Song
Students will use descriptive language for comparison of Duke Ellington’s music to that of Woody Guthrie’s, identify the folk instrument sounds, recognize figurative language in song lyrics, locate all the nouns in the lyrics of “This Land Is Your Land”, and develop reading skills which use context clues to comprehend unknown words in the book This Land. 		    X  
Quilicot Gregorian Chant / Fanfare
Using Gregorian Chant as a performance medium, students will understand that they have many commonalities and are important individually and as a group. 		    X X
Burrow Imagining Trees
Integrating music, visual arts, language arts, history, math, and science to learn about all the characteristics of trees. 		  X X X
Friesen Learning Literary Terminology Through Music
Exploring the common elements between the language of music and that of literature. Students will hear the way musical techniques shape music and transfer this understanding to literary techniques. 		  X    
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