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Curriculum Unit

New Worlds: Storytelling, Music and Writing Ethnomusicology: The Study of Culture and Music

Cecilia Hann

Title Author

KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.

In my unit, Integrating Music and Writing, my goal is to show how music lends itself be cross-curricular with reading and writing. Students will create music to stories that they wrote. They can use a variety of music and write what they hear. Then my fifth graders can create a fiction or non-fiction story and compose music. They will then share with peers to receive positive feedback.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT

  •  How do performers interpret musical works?
  •  How do individuals choose music to experience?
  •  How do we discern the musical creators and performers expressive intent?
  •  How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing and responding?
  •  How do the other arts, disciplines, contexts and daily life inform creating, performing and responding to music?

    • CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C

    Improvisation

    Active Listening

    Dramatic structure

    ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C

    How do performers write a story about a musical compostion?

    How do individuals create music using storytelling?

    How can other artistic expressions be used to create, perform and respond to music?

    VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY B VOCABULARY C

    Creativity

    Improvisation

    Creativity

    Collaboration

    Call and Response

    Tempo

    Form

    Timbre

    Culture

    Storytelling

    Fiction

    Non-fiction

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES

    Dramatic Structure: Seeger, Pete, and Paul Du Bois. Jacobs. Pete Seegers Storytelling Book. San Diego: Harcourt, 2001.

    Abiyoyo. Bt Bound, 2005.

    Improvisation: “What Is Storytelling?” National Storytelling Network, https://storynet.org/what-is-storytelling .

    Yagoda, Ben. The Sound on the Page: Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing. HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.

    Listening: Persons, Marjorie Kiel. Antonin Dvořák: From the New World: with Lyrics. Classical Magic, 2004.

    Prokofiev, Sergey, Melanie Williams, and Sergei Prokofiev. Peter and the Wolf. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2018.