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Music | Social Studies |
Grade Level Program | Alignment |
2 | 45 min |
In-School Short Term Residency | |
All year | In-School, |
$10 | 0 |
no | Email , Other |
Traditional drums, hand outs with song lyrics and drum descriptions. Drums, buckets, drum sticks, and other percussion instruments.
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paper and pencils, a large space appropriate for drumming, copies of pre/post test
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Gym, auditorium or cleared classroom, chairs enough for student drum circle.
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I CAN use call and response to learn music and rhythms from the African Diaspora.
I CAN identify animal skins traditionally used to make drums in Africa. I CAN identify ways to play and communicate with traditional drums. |
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Day One: Introduction, explore and discuss student backgrounds and cultural connections, introduce call and response concept, teach basic Funga rhythm and song from West Africa using hands/sticks and buckets.
Day Two: Define bass/tone/slap technique for African drumming, call and response identifying each type of note and playing with stick or bucket. Reinforce and continue rhythm exploration by singing/clapping, discussion to compare and contrast world rhythms in hip hop songs, make up their own simple pattern for the class to repeat, review and share. |
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