This is a great resource to use while teaching about the 2015 musical, Hamilton. The students love watching this PBS documentary and answering these interesting questions. It can be done independently, in groups, or as a class. Includes a quiz to be
This is a great follow-along worksheet to the PBS documentary, "In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams," available on YouTube! It follows the journey of a musical from initial composition to the Broadway stage. It can be completed independently, in
These are follow-along questions for the PBS documentary "Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World." It could be used for a music or social studies lesson.
This is a great resource for students watching the Beyoncé documentary on Netflix called, "Beyoncé: Homecoming. It asks behind-the-scenes questions about the process of putting a large-scale music show together. With my middle schoolers, we only
This is a follow-along worksheet to "The Hip Years" BBC documentary that is available YouTube in three parts. It is very informative and fun for the students to watch. Make sure you go through it before so you know which parts to skip over! There
I use this musical to teach stage direction and behind the scenes secrets from film and stage sets! This particular musical is available on Amazon prime. I skip over certain scenes and words in order to stay age-appropriate. I have them fill out
I usually accompany this movie with Youtube videos explaining the instruments of the Rock Ban to make it feel like a full unit study. These are follow-along and opinion questions for younger students.
I give this to my 6th-8th grade students on the first day of music class. It gives you a lot of valuable information for planning your curriculum and makes the students feel seen and heard!
This is a great exercise to do as a class in analyzing what makes a good performance. All clips are available on YouTube. We like to watch the performances as a class and then do our individual analyses.
This is a great exercise to do as a class in analyzing what makes a good performance. All clips are available on YouTube. We like to watch the performances as a class and then do our individual analyses.
This is a great exercise to do as a class in analyzing what makes a good performance. All clips are available on YouTube. We like to watch the performances as a class and then do our individual analyses.
This is a really fun project for middle school students. I let them pick a Broadway show and create a giant poster using this outline. I usually give them the option to draw their illustration or I'll print out pictures for them.
Lyrics for the opening number of the musical, Hamilton. Excellent to use as an introduction to this incredible musical. I like to do a read-aloud of all lyrics and then watch the Grammy performance of this number on YouTube or the full musical on
This is a great follow-along worksheet to the Amazon prime musical "Guava Island" created by Donald Glover/Childish Gambino. Middle schoolers love this film and it creates great class discussions for music class!
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