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Education level
3-5
Time to complete
08:00
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Description

Students will understand that: Music can enhance and evoke a response.


Note: This lesson plan was a winning entry of the 2008 TEE & Scholastic "Best-Ever Lesson Plan" contest. The following lesson plan and resources appear in their original form as they were submitted to TEE in 2008.

Categories: Language arts , Music , Culture
Tags: literature

What you'll need:

  • Novel
  • Computer with access to the internet and sfskids.org
  • Adobe Premiere software

How to make it:

  • 1.

    Skills and knowledge students need and/or will develop

    • Good listening skills
    • Expose students to classical music by having them listen to classical music
    • Students will become familiar with musical terms

  • 2.

    Will develop

    • The ability to read the novel, Island of the Blue Dolphin, or other literature book.
    • The ability to summarize chapters.
    • The ability to recognize and plot, setting, problem and solution, rise and fall of action, etc to make an excitement graph of the chapters in the novel, using coordinating grids.
    • The ability to become familiar with a variety of pieces of classical music, as they listen critically to different music, using adjectives to describe each piece.
    • The ability to illustrate chapter.
    • The ability to choose music to enhance illustration.

  • 3.

    Objectives: (final performance or product)

    In what way(s) will students demonstrate what they have learned?

    Students will: Write a short summary of a chapter, illustrate that chapter, and choose music to enhance the chapter. Each student will be responsible for one chapter and will contribute to a class movie.

  • 4.

    Download attached lesson plan and overview

    Grades 3–5
    Username: jperez
    Milpitas, California

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