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Free higher education performing arts research
Why Use Drama? Reader's Theater Tips, Strategies, & Teacher's Guide
This informative article provides tips and strategies to make the most of your reader's theater or classroom play activities. "Why Use Drama?" reveals some of the research about how the reader's theater model builds fluency and comprehension. Use it to defend against all the text-book pushers out there! "There's More Than One Way to Produce a Play" maps out six performance/production strategies. "The Delicate Nature of Assessing Drama" offers tips on teaching students to self-assess and discuss
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3rd - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Musicial Artist Report
This is a guide to give students to create a project, mostly written, about their favorite musical artist. They are to include many details about the performers musical life- listed on the worksheet and add a few extras in for flavor. They must also provide an example of the performers music. It clearly states on the paper that this song should have no curses or inappropriate lyrics. I let students know they will have lunch detention AND I will call home if they do not take the time to listen to
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Motown Founders and The Civil Rights Movement- Ms. Volk's Online Classroom
Ms. Volk's Online Classroom tackles subjects like the history and founding of Motown, the Civil Rights Movement, and the impact of black history on the music world. Featuring interviews from black musicians and historians. And of course, pop culture references.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Lift Ev'ry Voice & Sing
What is the history behind the song Lift Ev'ry Voice & Sing? How did this song come to be known at the Black National Anthem? Learn some of the backstories of how this song came to be and why the song is still relevant today. Use the hyperlink in the text to watch coordinating videos that will help students learn the lyrics and history of this timeless tune.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Rock Music mind map
A mind map of several sub-genres of Rock Music organised by the decade in which they came to prominence.Each genres contains examples of bands that represent that genre, as well as arrows linking between genres to suggest a cultural link, and dashed lines between genres indicating an "anti" link (for example, punk rock as a push back against glam rock).This resources is intended to complement the blank Rock Music Mind Map listed for free on my page - to be used as the "answer sheet" or just a ha
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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History of Popular Music (Rock-N-Roll)
This is a basic but comprehensive unit on Pop Music. There is a comprehensive timeline (through the early 2000's) and focuses mainly on the beginning decades (50's-90's) There is several assessments included as well.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Broadway Dynamic Duos and Perfect Pairings Scavenger Hunt
Have you noticed how “dynamic duos” and “perfect pairs” have shaped Broadway history? Teach the importance of collaboration and cooperation with an online scavenger hunt that celebrates the magic of shared ideas and working partnerships! From the early 1900s to present day, Broadway has boasted creative pairings such as the Gershwin Brothers, Kaufman and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Fosse and Verdon, Glenda and Elphaba, and even Timon and Pumbaa! Students will choose 15 of 25
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Theatre Online Scavenger Hunt Bundle
Character Backstory Development Questions
This simple worksheet gets kids thinking about their character's intentions as well as actions and what motivates their given action on stage. I use this worksheet with every script I give students. It encourages them to ground their choices in the text, but gives them lots of room to be creative. I then have casts take this worksheet to a rehearsal with their cast/group and compare answers so that they create a cohesive backstory and world for these characters to live in while telling their sto
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Crucible Group Research Project
I started this group research project with my students this year and it yielded amazing results. As our society changes, we can actually look and see how certain aspects never seem to change and we can question it with fresh new eyes.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Simple Band Directors Score Study Form
Simple one page score study sheet to get a good overview of a piece of music. 1. Enter in the most common information about a piece2. Find the parts in the work that will be challenges3. Find the rhythms that will need to be taught or revisited.This can be a great way to compare works before programming your concerts.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Types of Theatre Masks Research Project
This project provides students with the opportunity to teach their peers about a topic within the theatre curriculum. Students will choose a type of theatre mask and research their choice. After conducting their research, students will present what they have learned using a resource of their choice. Ideal as a unit on mask technique and history in a theatre class or as a device to investigate other cultural practices and traditions.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Musician PowerPoint Project
For this project, students will utilize the basic functions of Microsoft PowerPoint and choose a musician that they are interested in. Students will research this musician, create the following project, and present it to the class using the template that Mr. Liberge has provided.Microsoft PowerPoint will be the Microsoft Office application used to complete this project.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Music History Research Project
This project points to specific composers that will help students trace the history of Western Music through and interdisciplinary writing and research project.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Music in Literacy & Humanities
Using the Why-What-Where-When-Who-How of Music to learn about music through writing and reading of history and cultures. These six question starters cover all the areas of the Music Curriculum. One page for each question can be used per session for the whole class or one page can be given to each of 6 groups who are responsible for researching the prompts on their page and delivering them to the class.Can be made as simple or complex as teacher wants. Extra effective to add a large timeline o
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Character Trait Doc (Getting to Know Your Character)
Whether you are a creative fiction writer, playwright, or a screenwriter, this doc helps students understand that they need to know their character's complete interior and exterior world before they begin to write about him/her/them. After amassing a list of traits and responding to the doc's specifications, students can begin to bring their character to life in a short action sequence at the end.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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TABS- Musically Gifted
This is just a quick reference for music teachers who are interested in better diversifying lessons for their gifted students, or for those more directly involved in the process of identifying gifted students for services.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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Blues Icon Research Assignment (Short)
Who are the giants of the Blues? This assignment is a short research assignment that guides students to several important artists in the early commercial Blues genre and focuses them on questions as to why these particular artists are important and what they contributed to the genre and also the development of Rock'N'Roll.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Romeo & Juliet (form is meaning) Sonnet project
Highlighting the speakers in the famous Romeo & Juliet meeting scene leads to recognition of the English Sonnet form. Helping students recognize how Shakespeare embedded poetic forms into his dramatic text.I'm putting this quiz up for free.If you like what you see please contribute what you think it is worth at my Patreon page found HERE.God bless you in your continued work as a teacher.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet"
Musical Instrument Fact Sheet - Piano
-Who & What-This printable fact sheet is perfect for students and parents! You can use this worksheet in the classroom to teach students about the piano, or if you teach band, orchestra, or choir, you can pass this worksheet out to parents if their child is contemplating studying the piano! COMPLETELY EDITABLE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If this fact sheet helps you at all, please let me know!
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Program Notes
Use this assignment to help provide historical and background information on a piece of music! This can be used as a self-paced activity, and may be helpful to prepare for a concert!
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Building Inclusive Classrooms
An academic research paper on how to facilitate a caring and inclusive classroom environment, specifically concerning gender (both inspiring male dancers and making transgender or gender non-conforming dancers feel supported).
Django Style Licks
Licks in the style of Django Reinhardt. Licks are presented for different chord types and are intended to be used in improvisation over chord changes.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Django Style Licks
Licks in the style of Django Reinhardt. Licks are presented for different chord types and are intended to be used in improvisation over chord changes.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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