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Learning Activities (2) Building blocks of a lesson plan that include before, during, and after strategies to actively engage students in learning a concept or skill.

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   View Standards     Standard(s): [SS2010] USS5 (5) 11 :
11 ) Identify causes of the Civil War, including states' rights and the issue of slavery.

•  Describing the importance of the Missouri Compromise, Nat Turner's insurrection, the Compromise of 1850, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's rebellion, and the election of 1860
•  Recognizing key Northern and Southern personalities, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Joseph Wheeler (Alabama)
•  Describing social, economic, and political conditions that affected citizens during the Civil War
•  Identifying Alabama's role in the Civil War (Alabama)
Examples: Montgomery as the first capital of the Confederacy, Winston County's opposition to Alabama's secession (Alabama)

•  Locating on a map sites important to the Civil War
Examples: Mason-Dixon Line, Fort Sumter, Appomattox, Gettysburg, Confederate states, Union states (Alabama)

•  Explaining events that led to the conclusion of the Civil War
[ARTS] MUS (5) 10 :
10) Explain how context (such as social, cultural, and historical) informs performances.

Subject: Social Studies (5), Arts Education (5)
Title: Civil War Songs Performance
Description:

In this activity, students will study the music of the Civil War to identify social, economic, and political conditions that affected the citizens of the United states during the Civil War. Students will explain how a performer performs a piece of music differently when he/she knows the social, cultural, or historical background of the piece.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.



   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] MUS (5) 10 :
10) Explain how context (such as social, cultural, and historical) informs performances.

[ARTS] MUS (5) 16 :
16) Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Subject: Arts Education (5)
Title: Wild Things: Creating an Expressive Movement Poem
Description:

This activity is designed to help students make connections between music and their own lives.  They will use their background knowledge to design movement that expresses their feeling about the song.

This activity is designed to be used following the activity Wild Things: A Song Study.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.



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