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Careers in Music - Notetaking Worksheet
In this musical landscape worksheet, middle schoolers follow the directions to answer 10 short answer questions after attending a musical performance, watching one on video, or listening to one on the radio.
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Communication Studies
A degree in communications incorporates disciplines such as business, law, and media as well. A writing handout offers prospective communications majors information about what kind of assignments to expect in a typical course....
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Team Assignment - A Parking Dilemma
Class groups are challenged to solve the school’s parking problem. Each team must establish ground rules for their discussion, determine criteria that must be met, and brainstorm possible solutions. Next, they agree on one solution and...
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MAUS Cloze Procedure
Determine if the graphic novel Maus, by Art Spiegelman, is an appropriate reading level for your class by performing this cloze activity. Kids read the passage and attempt to complete the sentences on a second or third read through. All...
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Acting for the Common Goods
The first of a three-part series on bullying, this plan has class members present skits about bullying, write and sign an anti-bullying pledge, and complete a service project. For the skit, learners use information from previous lessons...
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What Does the Public Know About You? --Does it Matter?
Young people today have to be very careful with how they present themselves online. Show them the possible impact of their online activity and what employers might see when performing a basic search. The lesson provides a video clip...
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Alicia Keys, Songs in A Minor
Students watch a video about Alicia Keys and discuss the business side of her career. Groups role-play producers for her new album taking on the responsibility for all aspects, including budgets, contracts, song production, and advertising.
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Funny Business
Students discuss how much they understand of satire and parody. They read an article about an Iraq news parody show. They create and act out their own parody skit. They write an essay about using humor in grave situations.
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Broadway and The American Dream
Considering a unit study of American Musical Theatre? What better way to start than at the very beginning. Eight pairs of cards provide class members with background information about the genre from 1893 through 2004. The cards are...
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Mingle and Match
From Michelangelo and Rembrandt to perspective and apprentice, check out this simple matching activity for your young learners to use when reviewing Renaissance key terms.
Tellagami Labs
Tellagami
Bring the world of video messaging into your classroom with this creative communication application. Offering the ability to create animations with customized characters, backgrounds, and recorded messages, this resource is guaranteed to...
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Sketchy Business
Students identify and describe characteristics of contemporary artwork. Then, they create gesture drawings, a drawing technique used to express the action of a subject in a short period of time.
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Creating Plays from Children's Stories
Students explain how individual elements (e.g., plot, theme, character, conflict, etc.) comprise the structure of a play. They write an original one-act play with developed characters, specific setting, conflict, and resolution.
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Tennis Shoe Art
Students decorate a pair of tennis shoes. In this art lesson, students use paint to decorate a pair of tennis shoes. Students may also use fabric pens.
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What I Want to be When I Grow Up
Sixth graders discover different careers in music. In this career exploration lesson plan, 6th graders explore four different categories of music careers: music education, music performance, music business and music therapy. Students...
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Romeo and Juliet...Unfinished Business?
Students act as characters from Romeo and Juliet to carry on a cross-fire type discussion using contemporary language.
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Who Rocks Your World?
Young scholars develop their writing skills. In this business letter lesson plan, students write a letter of nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame regarding a music artist of their choice. Young scholars read their finished...
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Marketing
Students view a "Marketing" a painting by Robert Gwathmey. Using the painting, they explain the use of symbols and the placement of shapes. In older grades, they identify the relationship between the elements of art and the principles of...
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Factual Writing: Letters
Students write a business letter. In this factual writing lesson, students complete an online activity. Groups also draft a reply to a complaint letter. A worksheet is included for extra practice.
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The Season of Spring
Students perform a story from Greek mythology of how spring came to be. In this performing arts activity, students study the play of Persephone and use instruments and dance to put on a performance.
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Design a Business Card
Students examine business cards, noting the essential components. They design cards for a fictitious restaurant. They include names, addresses, and graphics on the cards.
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Bashing business
Pupils engage in a game in order to perform a Language Arts vocabulary review. The use of the game is valuable in order to maintain student attention and motivation throughout the lesson.
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Letter Writing Basics
Students write a business letter with information regarding specific writing mechanics. In this writing instructional activity, students learn to write a business letter and they focus on one area of concern. Students follow a business...