Overview and Background: Unit: Music in Our Lives

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Art, Drama, Music. : Art, Drama, Music. : Art, Drama, Music.

Cheney : Grades 11 - 11 : Aug. - Jun.

Title:	Music in Our Lives
Topics:	Music
Time Frame:
Start Date:	-
Status:	Draft
Date Revised:

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Summary:
This unit looks at the types of music that surround us.

Print Materials Needed:
Share the Music / McGraw Hill 1998.
American Popular Music / by Mark Ammons. Mark Twain Media, 1996.

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Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	KS
Title:	Music
Standard(s):	6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music 8. Understanding relationships between music, other arts, other disciplines 9.Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Understandings:
user	Music serves an important role in our culture and most peoples' lives. All people, from earliest recorded history, have created and listened to music. Music can help define who we are. People from all cultures value music.

Essential Questions:
User	What is the role and importance of music in life? Why is music an important part of peoples' lives? How have people created music throughout history? Why do we listen to music? How does music help define who we are? How does who musicians are define music?

Knowledge and Skills:

K
Describe the role music serves in our local culture

S
Describe musical events around us and discuss how much they themselves are involved in music.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Students will create questions for a survey/interview to gather information about music in local peoples' lives. Questions will inquire about listening habits, involvement, likes and dislikes, and ethnic or folk traditions. Each students will survey friends and family and tally the results and report findings.

Other Evidence
Create a chart for how much and to what they are listening to, and compare this to the information gathered through the interviews.
Reports on individual composers; composer puzzles; listen to examples of their music.
Reflective log on how music affects people and its cultural and social importance.

Task/Prompt: Music Around Us

Type:Performance Task

Topics: Music

Summary:
Students will create questions for a survey/interview to gather information about music in local peoples' lives. Questions will inquire about listening habits, involvement, likes and dislikes, and ethnic or folk traditions. Students will tally the results and report findings.

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Student Directions:
You are an anthropologist, researching the effects of music on different people. You will need to create questions for a survey and for personal interviews to gather information about music in local peoples' lives. Questions will inquire about listening habits, involvement, likes and dislikes, and ethnic or folk traditions. After you have conducted the surveys and interviews, compile your results and create a written report to be submitted to an anthropological journal for publication. Be sure that your report is complete, accurate and objective.

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

W
List places where music is heard and why.
Post essential questions and discuss.
Hand out list of performance requirements and deadlines.

H
Play some music that is currently popular - how did we get here?

E
Create interview questions for survey and interviews about music in peoples' lives and their listening, performing habits and ethnic or folk music traditions.
Listen to "Time Capsules" from different decades of popular music; discuss; worksheets. Learn and sing songs from these eras.
Listening lessons and activities from "Share the Music"
Activities/worksheets from "American Popular Music"
Students will bring in their best (favorite) musical composition, either a tape, CD, or played themselves, and will share it with the class.
Students will discuss their musical likes/dislikes, and involvement in music.

R
Rethink and reflect about music in our lives. Refer to original list created.
What have we learned so far?
Have you changed your mind about the role of music in peoples' lives?

E
Do surveys and interviews of music interests & uses and then create presentations.
Reports on individual composers; composer puzzles; listen to examples of their music.
Reflective log on how music affects people and its cultural and social importance.