how music forms a culture madelaine feakins emily meehan

How Music Forms a CultureMadelaine FeakinsEmily Meehan

Intro

• Our goal is to suggest alternates to the teaching methods we saw when observing Hartford classrooms

• The classrooms are very diverse but there is limited material taught about the different cultures of the students

• To fix this, we are teaching a curriculum on musical history, and how music can shape a culture or heritage

shantel

"fix an issue" sounds awkward to me. Maybe say "suggest alternates to the teaching methods or curriculum you observed through your placements". Or you can just start with your second bullet and take out fix and put "We suggest an alternative curriculum that addresses this issue..." something like that.

Plan

• 1 ½ hours for five days will be devoted to this topic

• Students will pick a particular song from their culture and research when this song was written in their cultures history, and for what purpose

• At the end of the week students will present a project to the class about their own culture

shantel

write this in number form so its easier to read on powerpoint. For you paper you can put it in word form but say "one and a half hours per day..."

shantel

Not sure that you need the last two bullets because you will mention that when you show your grid. You should probably change this slide to "demographics" where you talk about the grade you are targeting, the make of the class (gender, race, ethnic), location of the school etc. Also you should add a justification slide that includes the Connecticut state standards or gardner's multiple intelligences or any other sources you used to justify their curriculum. This justification slide should go right after this slide.

Objective 1

• Students will gain an understanding of the importance of personal identity and how heritage plays an important role in this concept.

shantel

So I think that you should put all your objectives on the same slide and then take the justifications that you placed after each and make that into one slide. Also for the powerpoint you do not need to include quotes from the readings or outside sources thats for you paper. You will not have enough time to talk about the justification of each objective so figure out which ones seem the most important or cut them down just for the presentation.

Objective 2

• Students will develop intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence skills through research of their own cultures and presentations

Objective 3

• Students will be exposed to music from various cultures

Objective 4• Students will learn that music differs between

cultures and develop an understanding of how music expresses a cultures experiences, beliefs, and values.o One history standard for fourth graders in

Hartford is to “analyze and evaluate human action in historical and/or contemporary contexts from alternative points of view (cite evidence to explain the various feelings/points of view of people in a historical situation and predict various points of view people might have on a contemporary issue).”

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Introduce theme

Show two videos: Native American rain dance and Michael Jackson "Black and White(20 minutes)

Explain music and culture correlation (20 minutes)

Show example of project(20 minutes)

Develop research questions(30 minutes)

HW: ask parents and grandparents research questions

Continue researching individual cultures and picking songs (incase students didn't’t do it for homework)(30 minutes)

Explain music and how it can express social issues that are specific to a culture(15 minutes)

Music teacher will come in with instruments for the students to play(45 minutes)

HW: Have students continue researching their cultures and start working on their projects

Speaker from, The Artists Collective, in Hartford will start by performing music for the class(45 minutes)Speaker will emphasize how music is an outlet of expression about social issues or can express certain ideals and values of a culture

The students will take a social issue in their lives or in hartford and write a paragraph, song, or poem expressing themselves and their feelings(45 minutes)

HW: Continue working on final projects

Work on their projects

either a poster, powerpoint, a song that reflects the culture they researched, or any other creative idea(1 hour)Students teachers questions

Finalize project

Prepare for presentation(30 minutes)

HW: Make sure projects are finished for presentations tomorrow

Final two hours of the day

Students present

Fill out evaluation sheets for other students

shantel

Explain how long each activity during the course of the day will be.

shantel

dont want to make the activity for the next day depend on the homework from the previous night.

shantel

research what?

shantel

music teacher will come in and do what? explain a little more.

shantel

so you only giving one day of homework?

Wednesday• Speaker from The Arts Collective in Hartford

• Perform for the class

• enhances musical intelligence

• Express the importance of music in culture

• Students will do an activity that stresses the importance of taking social action

• Work in partners and think of a social issueo write song/poem/short story about it

• Social action allows the students to learn on a higher level of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectiveso Synthesis

• Teacher, Linda Christensen stressed the importance of taking social action in the communityo “my students walk out the school door to social emergency...I believe

that writing is a basic skill that will help them both understand that emergency and work to change it” (Christensen, 162).

shantel

way formated seems confusing to me. make the second part a sub bullet maybe

shantel

i understand what you are trying to do but for the presentation you want to just keep it concise and simple so the judges can understand you dont have to include the explanation of how workinging in pairs increase interpersonal skills, u can say that verball when you present if you want though.

Evaluation

• Presentation in front of the class

• Students can grade each other

• Grade based on whether or not we believe they met the objectiveso they gained an understanding of the importance of

personal identity and how heritage plays an important role in this concept.

o They gained an understanding of how music expresses a cultures experiences, beliefs, and values.

shantel

what about the exam makes it not an accurate representation of knowledge of the students? again you dont have to mention that you wont have exams the evaluators should infer this if you do not mention it. You can however mention it in your paper if you want.

shantel

not necessary

Resources• Connecticut State Department of Education. State of Connecticut, 2002.

Website. April 26.<http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/PDF/Curriculum/Curriculum_Root_Web_Folder/frarts.pdf>

• Connecticut State Department of Education. State of Connecticut, 2002. Website. April 27.<http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/curriculum/socialstudies/CT_Social_Studies_Curriculum_Framework_2011.pdf>

• Helen1434. “Native American -Music- (Rain Dance).” Online Video Clip. Youtube. YouTube, April 22 2006. Web. April 25. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WNLLNxURt4>

• MichaeljacksonVEVO. “Michael Jackson -Black or White.” Online Video Clip. Youtube. YouTube, April 22 2006. Web. April 25. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2AitTPI5U0>

• Musical instruments from the music classroom in our school

• Silver Burdett: Making Music. Persons Education Inc, 2002. Website. April 25. <http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/cultures.html>

• The Artist Collective. The Artist Collective. Planet Bret. Website. April 26. <http://www.artistscollective.org/about.htm>

http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/PDF/Curriculum/Curriculum_Root_Web_Folder/frarts.pdf

http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/PDF/Curriculum/Curriculum_Root_Web_Folder/frarts.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2AitTPI5U0

http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/cultures.html

http://www.artistscollective.org/about.htm

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