AFRICAN MUSIC - UNIT BOOKLET/ACTIVITIES

Designed for junior-middle school students, this product contains a student workbook complete with listening examples.

The student workbook explores African life, African everyday life culture, African instruments, African drumming, the classification of African instruments, video demonstrations of a range of African instruments, African music characteristics outline as well as tasks exploring polyrhythms, ostinatos and the pentatonic scale.

The booklet comes complete with performance tasks for an African Folk song, guided listening log activities, listening glyphs and three scaffolded composition tasks to explore various African music characteristics.

BONUS - the booklet includes 24 rhythm cards for students and a list of activities and games they can complete using the cards,

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I hope you enjoy teaching this unit as much as my students have enjoyed learning it!

This unit is aligned to meet the following Common Core Anchor Standards:

Creating

1.1 Generate musical ideas for purposes and contexts

2.1 Select and develop musical ideas for defined purposes and contexts

3.2 Share creative musical work that conveys intent, demonstrates craftsmanship, and exhibits originality.

Present

6.1 Perform expressively, with appropriate interpretation and technical accuracy, and in a manner appropriate to the audience and context.

Responding

7.1 Select- Choose music appropriate for a specific purpose or context

7.2 Analyze - Analyze how the structure and context of varied musical works inform the response

8.1 Interpret - Support interpretations of musical works that reflect creators'/performers' expressive intent

Connecting

11.0 Connect - Relate musical ideas and works with varied context to deepen understanding.

INTERESTED IN OTHER WORLD MUSIC RESOURCES?

AFRICAN INSTRUMENT FLIPBOOK

WORLD INSTRUMENT PORTRAIT GALLERY

CHINESE INSTRUMENT FLIPBOOK

AFRICAN INSTRUMENT SORTING GAME

CHINESE INSTRUMENT SORTING GAME

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