7th Grade Students study music of the Romantic Period (1820-1900)
One of their projects is to create and perform a rap about a composer (Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Verdi)
One of their projects is to create and perform a rap about a composer (Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Verdi)
8th Grade Students study Music of Protest and Social Awareness
It is important for students to understand the power of music and how it can change the world.
Strange Fruit
Performed by Billie Holiday
This song is about lynchings in the rural South during the Jim Crow era.
https://docs.google.com/a/hanoverpublic.org/presentation/d/1EEklQhKVStGS2-SDRj2LQmeak2dQpnH417IOv00LUTQ/edit#slide=id.p
American Idiot
Performed by Green Day
This is the response to the post 9/11 US.
https://docs.google.com/a/hanoverpublic.org/presentation/d/1o4AFjUDkFNS1hwoEkFGcT6oj_rb0Ol_Da8o3XmiQ7nw/edit#slide=id.p
It is important for students to understand the power of music and how it can change the world.
Strange Fruit
Performed by Billie Holiday
This song is about lynchings in the rural South during the Jim Crow era.
https://docs.google.com/a/hanoverpublic.org/presentation/d/1EEklQhKVStGS2-SDRj2LQmeak2dQpnH417IOv00LUTQ/edit#slide=id.p
American Idiot
Performed by Green Day
This is the response to the post 9/11 US.
https://docs.google.com/a/hanoverpublic.org/presentation/d/1o4AFjUDkFNS1hwoEkFGcT6oj_rb0Ol_Da8o3XmiQ7nw/edit#slide=id.p