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CROSS CURRICULUM
• Geographical location of Jamaica
• The flag and what the colors represent
SONGS
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
› About the song: The song is a work song from Jamaica.
The process of cutting, checking and stacking bananas at the docks
ready for export needs to be completed within twenty-four hours
to prevent the fruit from deteriorating. Sung as day is breaking,
Day-O urges the checking and counting to be speeded up
so that the weary men and women, who have worked all night, can
go home.
- "Mango and Spice: 44 Caribbean Songs" published by A
& C Black Publishing.
Form: Call and response.
Colon Man
›About the song: This song is about a man from
Jamaica who went to Pananma to help build the Panama Canal. When
he was there, he acquired a gold pocket watch. When he went back
to Jamaica, many people admired his new gold watch and would ask
him what time it was. Admirors soon discovered that the man was
not able to tell time, and took delight in asking him the time.
Not to be outdone, the man sneaked peaks at the sun and would
guess the time.
Jamaican Farewell
› About this song: A person travels
to Jamaica and does not want to leave because the counry is so
beautiful.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
• Students will learn where Jamaica is
• Students will learn what the Jamaican flag looks like
• Students will learn what the color of the flag represent
• Students will learn and learn about traditional music
from Jamaica
ICCSD BENCHMARKS
• Students will perform a steady beat with
muisc.
• Students will learn song forms: call and response, AB,
ABA.
• Students will learn the difference between beat and rhythm.
• Vocabulary: steady beat, beat, rhythm, pitch, melody,
note, staff.
• Students will move, hear, and describe melodic direction
(up/high, down/low, same, combination.)
• See musical notation for higher and lower pitches, middle
c, d and e.
• Students will sing with rhythmic accuracy.
• Identify, read, and sing do, re, mi with combined
use of quarter notes and eighth notes.
NATIONAL STANDARDS
1) Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire
of music.
2) Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied
repertoire of music.
3) Improvising melodies, variations and accompaniments.
5) Reading and notating music.
6) Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
7) Evaluating music and music performances.
8) Understanding relationships between music, the other arts,
and disciplines outside the arts.
9) Understanding music in relation to history and culture.
ICCSD STANDARDS
12) Moving to music.
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