OBJECTIVE:
The growing popularity of Jazz after WW I.

TOPIC:
The major players in the early 20th century.

The distinct contributions of Ella Fitzgerald, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Louie Armstrong will be discussed.

LITERACY:
Students will compose a first letter to the school board about the importance of funding music in the schools.

OBJECTIVE:
The jazz influence upon classical music in Europe and America after WW I.

TOPIC:
How George Gershwin, Charles Ives, Claude Debussey (France) and Kurt Weill (Germany) incorporated jazz into their compositions.

Students will listen to samples of Jazz styles.

LITERACY:
Students will brainstorm a depressing subject and then write a simple blues pattern on that subject.

OBJECTIVE:
What the war did to music and composers.

TOPIC:
The Neo-Classiscal movement. An attempt to re-simplify music. Listening examples of Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky will be heard.

How the post war depression stifled composer's creativity.

LITERACY:
Students will review from their texts on the Neo-Classical movement and formulate questions or comments about what they have read. Questions will be read aloud to the class and other students will be called on to answer.

OBJECTIVE:
Music as a tool of expression. Students will gain an understanding of how modern music has been shaped by socio-political movements.

TOPIC:
Students will be exposed to the rock and roll music of the 50's.

Rock and Roll laid the ground work for the civil rights and anti-vietnam music of the 60's and 70's.

LITERACY:
Students will interview a relative old enough to remember the turbulent 60's and 70's. They will also ask them if they remember a specific song from that era.

OBJECTIVE:
Music of Hollywood's war movies.

TOPIC:
How Hollywood's composers depicted the violence and tragedy of war. Film clips of Saving Private Ryan, All is Quiet on the Western Front and Platoon will be shown.

LITERACY:
Students will journal write how the music in a particular scene added to the overall impact.