I continue to explore the use of music in the regular classroom with this eighth episode of Teaching, Simplified. This time, I'm drawing on my own experience in an elementary classroom, and adapting a lesson that has stuck with me through the years. We call it Mood Music. In this, I use music to inspire writing, playing an instrumental tune to evoke a scene in the imaginations of my students. During the music, students sketch their scene of what the music makes them think of. After briefly sharing with the rest of the class, they get down to the business of writing their scene in story form. Only then do they re-draw their original sketch, adding details and color as time allows. It's a simple idea that yields surprising results. |
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