Jamilla+&+Larry

**J aM i L L a A n D L aR R y **

**L esson <span style="color: #fda262; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">S ummary <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 80%;">"Combining The Arts" ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In our first lesson we combined the english language arts with visual arts as well as music into one another. The students had to analyze all aspects of each form from a poem by Langston Hughes and artwork by Romare Bearden in the book entitled "The Block". They first had to describe the artwork, then the poem and then compose music that would represent the two collectively. Larry and I brought in random Orf instruments for the students to choose from for their pieces. By way of brainstorming, discussion and practice each group was able to composed a piece and performed it for their classmates. Our lesson was aimed for 6th graders but, in reality, our lesson could be for all ages! Larry and I asked for our peers to critically think and analyze as college students would so that the lesson was more productive and fun! (A copy of our lesson plan can be found below!) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(To get more information or to buy this book follow this link...) http://www.amazon.com/Block-Langston-Hughes/dp/067086501X

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<span style="color: #c56420; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**"Becomi****ng Billie** **Holiday" by Carole Boston****Weatherford with art by Floyd Cooper** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This book is **FABULOUS** and can be used for all kinds of lessons or even for pure leisure. The books is comprised of Billie Holiday's song lyrics and the artwork of Floyd Cooper. The pictures and organization of each song is supposed to represent the life of Billie Holiday from her childhood to when she becomes famous. Many of her songs are very poetic and the artworks is very expressive. In my opinion the lyrics set the tone and the artwork tells the story for it is very chronological.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It is obvious through her lyrics that Billie Holiday had a trying and hard life. Theauthor creatively places each poem in an order in which the reader is put in a "place and time" of Ms. Holiday's life. The artwork only further expresses Billie's life and aids to the reading in becoming more aware of her story.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Because the artwork is key in story telling and is technically a form of expression and personal interpretation, we thought it would be neat to have each student create a picture while listening and reading the lyrics from the book or vise versa. The book provides strong visual arts and music lyrics that it would beokay to write poems as well based on how the music and/or artwork made each student feel. Reading the book alone requires students to think critically and to be able to analyze all of the arts. This would be a great extension upon our first lesson as well as a great start to a new idea or concept!

<span style="color: #3ba552; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**"I See Rhythm" by Toyomi Igus** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">The book “I See the Rhythm” by Toyomi Igus directly pertains to roots of African American music in the United States through the use of visual arts and poetry. Each page contains a separate topic (blues, swing, jazz etc.) and contains one full page of colorful artworkpertaining to the topicand a poem describing the topic, written in an abstract artistic manner. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In relation to our lesson extension, we chose to incorporate the topic of female jazz singers to help tie together this book with the other book of choice for this lesson, “Becoming Billy Holiday” by Carole Boston Weatherford.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This specific section of “I See the Rhythm”, describes female jazz singers like Billy Holiday in specific fashion with an added famous lyric from one ofher songs “God Bless the Child”. The poetry includes famous jazz singers such as Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and, as discussed previously, Billie Holiday. Another notable feature of the text page is the mini timeline that helps portray the time period that female jazz musicians had the greatest impact on music in America (1920-1939).

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">An important concept I, Larry, am including from this book selection pertains to the artwork. Asking students to discuss details of the picture and how it makes them feel is a great introduction to the lesson. The artwork specifically portrays numerous jazz women singing along with an accompanied upright bass player. The instruments stick out because they are in bright colored coinciding with the “cool” blue background of the artwork.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(<span style="color: #e42576; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**GLOGSTER** : www.glogster.edu) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I found this web tool to be great for MANY uses! It is a web based tool where anyone can make "posters" using pictures, text, sound clips and videos. You can create a collage of ideas and make it coherent or expressive in an abstract way. Teachers are able to create an account and add their students so that everyone can view their projects. You can make your glog private or public. You can even print your glog when you are finished! Glogster is free but you can pay for more features!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You can create pictures that are hyperlinked to send you to other pages as if you are opening a new section in a book! You can play with color scheme and alter the shapes, sizes and rotations of everything. This site is great for projects of any kind including but not subject to science, history, english, music, art ect. You could collaborate with other teachers by implementing a research project where the subject matter would have to be present PLUS an incorporation of music and visual art.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Since our new lesson is expression through visual art based on english language arts and music I, Jamilla, comprised a simple glog to represent our ideas.

http://lovelynotes.edu.glogster.com/literacy-example/

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(<span style="color: #1200ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**MUGTUG** : www.mugtug.com) Mugtug is a useful tool to use in a classroom, especially in a district containing a usable computer lab. Mugtug is an online sketchpad easily accessible to any student or teacher with access to the internet. An excellent use of Mugtug for teachers would be to have their students explore ways to create art in relation to their core subjects in school (such as literacy) and use them in presentations or discussions. This is an electronic tool that makes learning fun for the student. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In relation to our activity, by playing a piece of music by a famous female jazz singer (or even reading lyrical text if no audio is available), students can easily draw and create a picture using both musical and lyrical elements. These pictures can be saved in pdf or png files and shared throughout the class.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How well a picture is drawn isn’t necessarily the goal of this workshop but rather it is how well the student relates text (lyrics) and music to art. You can use this tool to collaborate with other teachers in art and any other subject in school. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;"> A**RTs** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">E DGE** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1: <span style="color: #66110c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__[]__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-This lesson provides a historical background of Harriet Tubman, slavery, and the Underground Railroad. This lesson links literacy to both history and music by introducing the African American spiritual and its use of a secret language to help share viable information within the slave community.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Students will learn to identify musical styles and musicians associated with Harlem. Specifically focusing on jazz links historical background of the Harlem Renaissance to evolution of jazz and jazz musicians.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">**HOT<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">List Links** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**"GOD BLESS THE CHILD"**  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Billie Holiday <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">-A video sound clip can be played while the student(s) are creating their artwork. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_1LfT1MvzI **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">BILLIE HOLIDAY OFFICIAL WEBSITE ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">-This site provides a grand amount of information regarding Billie Holiday where students can gather information about this famous singer  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">http://www.billieholiday.com/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**HELPFUL TIPS TO COMBINE MUSIC AND LITERACY/LANGUAGE LEARNING** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: right;">-A site to help teachers who need advice on choosing music that will aid to children's language and literacy development <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: right;">http://www.edact.com/blog/?p=27 **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">LESSON PLAN IN LEARNING VOCABULARY THROUGH MUSIC AND ART ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-A lesson plan that will help kids develop vocabulary skills through music and art http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/america-beautiful-using-music-1147.html <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: right;">**LESSON PLAN RELATING POETRY AND MUSIC** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: right;">-In this lesson students are learning poetic devices through music lyrics  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: right;">http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/musical-poetry <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**TYPES OF ART** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-This website gives ample information regarding art forms so that the students can develop ideas for their own artwork http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/art-types.htm