Teaching Academic Skills Through the Exploration of Music
Sloan Edward Williams III
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l. See 5-8, “strategies, goals and objectives” section.
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2. If you are using “Star Wars” for your first class, make sure that the film clip starts at the beginning of a musical theme or phrase. Also make sure that there is one central image, such as Luke, Darth Vader, (which might be too easly for eight graders), starts with the music. At first, try to avoid action scenes at first which might be confusing to students. Before you start the film, explain to the class that you want them to look as well as listen to the film.
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After viewing the film, pass out papers with the following questions:
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1. What did you see on screen while you watched the film clip?
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2. What did you hear while you watched the film clip?
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3. Do you know what movie the film clip is from, if the answer is “yes”, write down the answer on this space.
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4. Is there anything that is the same about the movie and the music to the movie; in other words, is there anything that both have in common?
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5. What would you like to say about the film clip that you just saw?
Pass out a vocabulary list containing the following words:
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* Theme
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* Plot
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* Melody
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* Character
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* Film: Director and Producer
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* Novel
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* Conductor
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* Composer
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* Studio Musician
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* Orchestration
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* Underscore
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6. Hand out journals, and have students divide their journals into five sections for music, art, film, literature, and personal observations.
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7. Give words as a home work assignment. Have students bring back the definitions of each word and tell what section in the journal each word should be placed in.