|
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.
Tinga Layo!
› About the song: The donkey in many places
of the world, was seen as a prized animal for transporting goods
to a market. In this song, the owner of a donkey boasts that his
donkey is a smart donkey.
Form: A B
Ball Gawn Roun'
› About the song: This is a song that is sung
while playing a game. Here is how we played this traditional Jamaican
game: A circle is formed with all students sitting. One person
is chosen to be 'Jigga Nanny' who sitsin the center of the ring.
The game is played as the students sing the song. Once they begin
singing, ball is passed behind their backs from one player to
another. Once the song was done, and the singing stopped, the
student had three chances to guess who had the ball.
Form: A B A
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 slow and fast tempos and will able
to identify and perform slow and fast tempi.
• Students will learn song forms: call and response, AB,
ABA.
• Students will learn tempo vocabulary slow, meduim, fast.
• Students will sing with rhythmic accuracy.
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.
|
