North Carolina Symphony 2010-2011
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I Have...Who Has...?
This is an instrument identification game. Pass out the cards to the students. The person with the first card reads their whole card out loud. The person with the answer reads their whole card out loud, etc.
i_have_who_has_game_cards.doc | |
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Most of the files below were created to use along with the North Carolina Symphony Student Booklet 2010-2011.
Alexander Borodin
I use this file as a class game. I divide the class into four to six teams and the teams sit "relay" style, in a row. Each team has an large sheet of construction paper with A, B, C, and D on it along with a fly swatter. After I read each question and say, "Go", the person at the head of the line slaps the correct answer with the fly swatter. I tally the correct answers and the teams rotate.
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Fly Swatter Game Pieces |
For my Borodin file posted on Smart Exchange click the link below.
In the Steppes of Central Asia
This song has three themes. I copy each theme on a different color paper. After teaching them to sing each theme, I distribute them to the class. As the students are listening, they may hold up the theme they hear. Sometimes more than one theme is played at the same time. This is a good lesson in texture.
russian_theme_cards.doc | |
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traveling_theme_cards.doc | |
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eastern_theme_cards.doc | |
File Size: | 60 kb |
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in_the_steppes_themes.notebook | |
File Size: | 311 kb |
File Type: | notebook |
For my In the Steppes Themes file posted on Smart Exchange click the link below.
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Click on the link below to view a nice slideshow of Central Asian steppes while listening to Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XlTNj-09v8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XlTNj-09v8
Gioacchino Rossini
I use this file to introduce Rossini. Students read the biography from the North Carolina Symphony booklet silently or in small groups. After dividing the students into six small groups, I distribute a copy of one of six worksheets (see Rossini Folders file below) - one different worksheet to each different group. Each group works together to write the answer inside the rectangle below the question. Then I give the group a folder that has the worksheet attached to the front and holes cut around three sides of each rectagle to make a flap. They place their worksheet inside the folder and place it so that when the flap is lifted the answer is revealed. All folders are rotated to the next group and the facts are reviewed in that group. After a certain amount of time, folders are rotated again. Groups continue to review information and rotate folders until each group has reviewed all of the biographical information about Rossini. (This is aother version of the folder idea given at the October 19th workshop by one of my esteemed co-presenters.)
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File Size: | 202 kb |
File Type: | notebook |
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http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=x1e080d69eb6943278bef7af581257cce
Rossini FoldersThis is the file you can use to make your folders for the Rossini lesson above. Make a copy of the file for the front of the folders and one for each class. For example, if you have five classes to teach, make six copies of the files, because one will be used to tape or glue to the front of the folders.
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Overture to William Tell
Here is a file of dynamics posters that I used with the activity on page 26 of the North Carolina Symphony 2010-2011 Teacher Workbook. This activity was shared by one of my co-presenters at the October 19th workshop
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Ottorino Respighi
Click on the link below to view a clip from La Boutique Fantasque by the Portland Ballet Company. The tarantella begins at 2:03 and ends at around 3:28.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gboUqzw6fuc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gboUqzw6fuc
Name That Composer
This is just a little activity that you can use toward the end of your symphony unit to fill that last 2-3 minutes of class.
name_that_composer_10-11.notebook | |
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The file below is incomplete. Please try to use the file above, which is complete, until I am able to post the correct file below.
For my Name That Composer file posted on Smart Exchange click the link below.
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