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Instructor Date 2/2/2010
Class/Grade Level Location
Student Learning
Goals of lesson (what you want the students
to learn and be able to demonstrate?)
Creativity through jazz.
Prior Knowledge &
Skills (what do already know and can do upon which you
build the lesson?):
Years
of jazz experience and time in jazz classes, history classes, and playing in
jazz ensembles.
National Standards
Addressed in Lesson:
Improvisation
Instructional
materials, resources, & Technology:
Jazz A-B-Z
Speakers, playlist of pieces chosen
Drawing paper and colored pencils/crayons for students
Relevant Contextual
Factors and Modifications/Accommodations needed:
None needed
Personal Improvement
Objective:
By
listening to jazz, students will acquire active listening skills and creativity
through story telling.
Time
______ Selection: identify the learning focus)
Jazz A.B.Z
skill focus: Creativity
conceptual focus: Short attention span
Anticipated student difficulties
Being able to create ideas and stories from unfamiliar music
Describe the following: Detailed Procedures /
Instructional Strategies / Planned Statements
1.
5
min. of Jazz intro
a.
Who,
what, where, how
b.
Instrumentation
c.
What
they where trying to convey
d.
2.
Show
two examples of poems from the book, but do not play associated music.
3.
Students
will split into two different groups
a.
Each
group listen to different recording
i.
First
time through just listen
ii.
Second
time through half of group write adjectives and other half draws picture
4.
After
listening, students will discuss what they wrote and drew.
5.
Students
create short story from adjectives and pictures (can create a story outside of
what is written down…let them be creative!)
6.
Each
group will prepare a short presentation of their story with the music.
(includes pictures students created)
a.
Necessary
elements:
i.
Setting
ii.
Characters
iii.
Describe
how sounds associate with something from the story (why they associated sounds
with characters.
7.
Students
present to the other group their projects.
8.
Class
discusses aspects of the story they liked/didn’t like and ways to improve the
story to make it better match the music. (instructor leads discussion)
9.
Present
the book version of the artists they listened to.
a.
Read
poem
b.
Compare
what is in the book to what they came up with
c.
Explain
how everyone has a different perception of music and that it means different
things to each person.
______ Ending Statements: (Closure: Leads to tomorrow’s activities)
The creativity of jazz helps show the correlation between creativity needed from artists to create the music and student creativity used to make stories. Jazz is about improvising and making it up as you go.