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Spooky Halloween Graphic Score – Composition Lesson, Project, & Assessment Tools This music project combines scary movie music with non-standard notation and graphic scores to unleash student creativity! In this assignment, students will learn about the impact of music on the mood of movies (watching movie trailers that have been set to horror music!) and about the creativity of graphic scores. Then, students will brainstorm and create their own graphic score for a movie trailer complete with

Music Appreciation Project – Concert ReviewThis music appreciation project (with rubric and video links included) combines critical listening with music vocabulary to encourage students. In this assignment, students will watch two performances of the same piece of music and then answer two 'big' questions (broken down into more accessible pieces): Which do you like better (and why)? What elements can you identify to make the other piece better (and how would you fix it)? It works especially we

This is a fantastic way for students to lay out all the important information from a history (or any other subject) unit in one easy-to-read, easy-to-customize place. ***Hint: it works really well as a unit planner for teachers, too!*** Sections include: - vocabulary - important dates - important people - things (they should be able ) to put on a map - overall outline - essential questions (they should be able to answer) Make it colourful! Use pictures! Put finished products up on the wall a