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Connects Music to English (continued)
Schlievert The War of 1812
Introduce the War of 1812 to students by using the War of 1812 Overture as a musical introduction. 		  X    
Labendeira Warming Up with Music
Students will be introduced to the great historical contributions of three classical composers while developing listening, speaking, reading and writing, math, and physical creative expression skills. 		      X
Perez Which Instrument Are You?
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of instrument families of the orchestra by writing an essay describing the various instruments in an orchestra and explaining which instrument best fits him/her and why. 		    X  
Redfern Stories and Music
Students will have an enduring understanding that composers can tell stories with their music. Additionally, through their storytelling, we can understand and learn about times and people long ago through music. 		      X

Connects Music to a Foreign Language
Wallentin Der Erlkoenig (GERMAN)
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      
Colby Pedro & El Lobo (Peter & the Wolf) (SPANISH)
Students will learn, in Spanish, the names and sounds of the instruments in Peter and the Wolf, create predictions for the story, and write and perform a new ending for the story using puppets. 		X      

Connects Music to History
Visitacion A Musician's Life—My Life
Students will write an autobiography, understanding that their own life can be written in sequential order like the movements of a symphony. They will see that others like Beethoven and Bill Traylor have overcome tragedies and triumphed. Students will reflect on adversities they have overcome and compare them to their own triumphs. 		  X    
Thompson Aaron Copland & Cowboys of the American West
Students will understand the idea of chronological order and significant life events by listening to a biography of Aaron Copland. 		      X
Thompson Aaron Copland's “Rodeo”–compare and contrast
Guided by the subject of cowboys and how Aaron Copland created an image (like an author does) when he wrote “Rodeo” students will compare and contrast two versions of this piece of music using musical vocabulary relating to dynamics, tempo, and instrumentation. 		      X
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