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CROSS CURRICULUM
• Geographical location of Jamaica.
• The flag and what the colors represent.
• Rastafari and the Rastafari movement in Jamaica.
• Ethopian flag and what the colors represent.
• Presence of the colors yellow, red, and green in Jamaica
and reggae artists and what it means.
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.
Back to Ethopia
• About this song: A traditional Jamaican song.
It is rastafarian. Subject matter includes longing for the country
they regard as home.
Welcome to Jamrock and
Buffalo Soldier, a comparison of Bob
Marley and Damian Marley. We discussed the following.
• Instruments used (drums, bass, guitar, and
voice). What is similiar and different about the instruments (timbre,
rhythms used, tempo, etc.).
• Characteristicss of rap.
• Characteristics of reggae.
• Fusion of rap and reggae in Damian Marley's song Welcome
to Jamrock.
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
• Read and perform rhythmic patterns on percussion
instruments (quarter/eighth/half notes and rests).
• Vocabulary: rhythm, ostinato, pentatonic, upbeat tempo,
syncopation
• Improvise rhythms.
• Learn an ostinato and perform an ostinato.
• Read a song with do-re-mi and basic rhythms.
• Accurately perform melodic and/or unpitched rhythmic patterns.
• Perform ostinatos while singing.
• ABA forms (in addition to call and response, AB).
• Read a song with basic pitches, rhythms, and slurs.
• Rhythms quarter, paired eights, half, whole, 1e&a, 1&a,
1e&, half rest, whole rest, eighth rest, quarter rest.
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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