Black+History+Month

Essential Questions =What unit/big topic will be used?= Black History Month

=What big ideas should students understand?=
 * 1) Multicultural history
 * 2) How jazz connects to history & culture
 * 3) Improvisation/scat singing
 * 4) Work songs/spirituals
 * 5) Martin Luther King Jr.
 * 6) Civil War

=What projects could be designed for the unit?=
 * 1) Junior high band sections research someone who played their instrument
 * 2) History of jazz
 * 3) Follow the Drinking Gourd - students write their own lyrics
 * 4) History timeline

=What are the objectives/learning goals?= >> 2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. >> 3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments. >> 4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines. >> 5. Reading and notating music. >> 6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music. >> 7. Evaluating music and music performances. >> 8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. >> 9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.
 * 1) Cover the nine national standards - improv/compare & contrast/solo/perform as a group
 * 2) 1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
 * 1) Connect to jazz history music

=What assessments will be used to measure learning?=
 * 1) Tests, performances, projects

=What vocabulary terms will be important for students to learn and know?=
 * 1) jazz
 * 2) improvisation
 * 3) emancipation
 * 4) underground railroad
 * 5) call & response
 * 6) gospel
 * 7) spiritual
 * 8) work-song
 * 9) be-bop
 * 10) scat
 * 11) among others