Star+Spangled+Banner

Here is another resource I just found recently. Someone suggested it on twitter! The Star Spangled Banner - Smithsonian Site Website with many lesson plans: http://www.thenationalanthemproject.org/teachermaterial/naptm_START.html

BRAINSTORMING: Vocal Music:
 * Elementary:**
 * teach words for Banner-verse one only
 * Peter Spier book - 3 verses with story & pics to help with words
 * Reallygoodstuff.com - history sheets, flamboyant flags with younger elem, regular flags with words written on, blank ones take their test on
 * Dialogue or story of the night it was written - history of when he wrote it that night
 * Phrase strips to put in order
 * Fill-in-the blank
 * Sing for athletic events & at concerts
 * Francis Scott Key - "dress-up" come in & talk about it
 * Musical Mysteries - 3/4 pages for SSB
 * Music K-8 word search
 * Crossword - every word is in the song
 * McCool - made cupcakes for each student then read a brief history over the intercom & then choir sang it


 * JH/HS Vocal:**
 * JH - unison, strive for 2 pt
 * SH - 3 pt SSA arrangement (Angie has)


 * JH/HS Instrumental:**
 * Perform various arrangements of the SSB. Record and have students evaluate different arrangements.
 * Have students find five different performances of the SSB on youtube or other video sites.
 * Music Expression/Interpretation:
 * Phrasing
 * Tempo
 * Articulations

Questions for January 2011: 1. Were all the kids able to perform the song successfully? Why or why not? 2. What went over well and what did not? 3. Feedback from school, community, stakeholders? 4.