Students will experience the musical cultures of Ghana through listening, movement, game play, and percussion performance. Lesson segments are designed to stand alone, but sequential presentation may yield greater success as the experiences progress toward more rigorous performance requirements for both the students and instructor. This lesson is intended to develop knowledge regarding Ghanaian music.

The segments of this unit offer an investigation of the impact of circumstance on the music of a people through examination of several musical selections from the Five Nations heritage (Choctaw and Cherokee in particular) during and following the Trail of Tears of 1831 and 1838 respectively.

Students will create a poem in Spanish using different adjectives and emotion descriptors inspired by classical music listening experience.

Students will understand that copyright law is designed to promote creativity and the growth of knowledge by considering both the rights of owners and the rights of users. Students will learn how fair use ensures that copyright law does not limit First Amendment rights and that the flexibility of fair use enables it to be relevant and useful to many different kinds of creative communities.

The violin, a four-stringed instrument tuned at intervals of a fifth and played with a bow, has the capability to produce an amazing array of sounds that both express and evoke a wide range of human feelings and emotions. In this lesson students research the history of the violin, its manufacture, and the musicians who have mastered the art of creative expression through this instrument.

Sstudents are provided a medium for discussion of the Blues by learning 12-bar blues form through singing and theory. Students will have the opportunity to write and perfom their own 12-bar Blues verses.

Students explore the ways in which vocal music expresses culture. In doing so, this unit focuses on an Indonesian lullaby, a Sikka work song, and Kecak vocal orchestra.

Students will draw connections between the voices in music and voices found in literature to increase their understanding of how to use voice in their writings.

Students deepen their understanding of the political and emotional events of the War of 1812 through the music of Tchaikovsky. Students will learn how different instruments are used for expressing a mood and illustrating events in history. Students will write a response to the music that informs about their own understanding of both the instrumentation and the important events of history.

Students explore the way poetry"™s unique rhythms can be further enhanced by musical accompaniment. By pairing selected music and poems, students discover new ways to listen, interpret and appreciate these art forms.

Excellent cross-curricular music and science lesson about where sound comes from. Activities for students to discover and learn about waves, vibrations, frequencies, and how energy relates to volume (dynamics). Includes video clips, and hands-on interactive experiments with everyday objects.