Project Overview: In this project, students will work together to create a large scale collage mural of a grapevine. The Grapevine Collaborative Mural Project gives students the opportunity to draw connections between the patterns that they can hear in music and the patterns that they can see with their eyes. This project also allows students…
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Unit 2: Cajun Music with Megan, Drew, and Kelli – Little World Fais Do-Do Painting
Project Overview: In this project, your students will each paint a picture of a fais do-do, or a big party, at which Cajun songs are performed and people dance the two-step. Students will have opportunity to visually express their knowledge of meter and understanding of strong and weak beats. Vocabulary from the Musical Word Wall:…
Unit 3: Musical Theatre with J.J. – Do-Re-Mi Accordion Book
Project Overview: In this project, students will create an accordion book/wall chart that features the solfège symbols and syllables featured in the musical scale and the song “Do-Re-Mi” from the musical The Sound of Music. The book/wall chart will give students a visual aid for understanding the concept of pitch. Students will illustrate each solfège…
Unit 4: Country Music with Shannon – You Are My Sunshine, I Am My Sunshine
Project Overview: This project gives students tools to explore concepts of solo, duet, melody and harmony. In addition to understand these musical concepts, students will have an opportunity to think about the way they interact with their peers and family— sometimes we get to be part of a harmonious duet, and sometimes we hold down…
Unit 5: Irish Music with Harry – Rattlin’ Bog Paper Sculpture
Project Overview: In this project, students create a 3-dimensional free-standing paper sculpture of the scene described through the many verses of the traditional Irish song O’ro the Rattlin’ Bog. The song, as well as this project, brings students the message that nothing is as simple as it seems at first glance… especially if you are…
Unit 6: Music of Mali with Yacouba – A Djely, Like Me!: Bookmaking Project
Project Overview: In this project, students will reflect on the meaning of “Kele Faba” and “Wawanko” and write poems or songs about peace and friendship. Each student will create a book with a picture of a kora on the front. The book will feature their poems and illustrations, as a way to share their words…