Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Improvise a Short Story through Jazz

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students evaluate jazz music and a jazz music performance. They collaborate and create an improvised group short story. They improvise a musical piece on found objects.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Act 3: New York Introduction 1924-1925, Louis Armstrong

For Teachers 4th - 11th
Young scholars listen to and examine jazz recordings and listen for features (breaks and obbligato) that are typical of jazz music. In groups, they make up a short blues song of their own.