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Green, Green, Green

Anissa Sanz

Description

This lesson travels around the world celebrating St. Patty's Day and all things green! First, we start of in Ireland and travel our way down to Mexico for some green guacamole. Students will learn dances from the two places.

Standards

Florida Sunshine State Standards
DA.C.1.1.2
The student explores movement in response to the sounds and music that reflect a specific culture.

MU.C.1.1.1
The student knows music from several different genres and cultures (e.g., vocal and instrumental, African and Latin American).

MU.C.1.1.3
The student knows the general cultural and/or historical settings of various types of music (e.g., songs related to American celebrations and daily life).

Florida Process Standards
Multiculturally Sensitive Citizens
10 Florida students appreciate their own culture and the cultures of others, understand the concerns and perspectives of members of other ethnic and gender groups, reject the stereotyping of themselves and others, and seek out and utilize the views of persons from diverse ethnic, social, and educational backgrounds while completing individually and group projects.

Materials

-Music K-8 Volume 12 No. 4 and Music K-8 Volume 11 No. 4
Plank Road Publishing
-an appropriate player, i.e. CD or cassette
-guacamole dip and chips

Preparations

1.Obtain a songbook and cd of Music K-8 Volume 12, No. 4 by Plank Road Publishing for the song Guacamole!
2.Obtain a songbook and cd of Music K-8 Volume 11, No 4 by Plank Road Publishing for the song Joggin' Jig.
3.Have guacamole dip and chips prepared.

Procedures

1. Ask students to listen to the song, Joggin' Jig while I play the recorder and tell me at the end of the song, why I chose to play this song. (Answer: St. Patrick's Day).

2. Ask students which letter was left out of the first word in the title of the song (answer: G), then ask why it was left out (answers: to have it fit with the beat of the song; it's easier to say; that's the way people with an Irish accent say it).

3. Have students repeat the Joggin' Jig phrase after you, then the Up and Down phrase. Then add the dance steps with the singing.

4. Explain to the students that in Irish Dancing, the hands are usually straight down the sides of the body but in order to keep our balance, we are keeping our hands on our waist.

5. Ask students to listen to the pitches of the phrase, Up and Down and ask them how the pitches are different from the WORDS of the song (answer: when singing the word up, the pitch is low and when singing the word down, the pitch is highopposites).

6. Have students sing and dance, Joggin' Jig.

7. Ask students to identify specific colors that go with certain holidays (Christmas=green and red, Valentines=red, St. Patrick's Day=green)

8. Stop at green for St. Patrick's Day and have them name green fruits (pears, apples, honeydew, and avocado).

9. Stop when they get to avocado and tell them that avocado is used to make Guacamole and describe how to make Guacamole and that it's mainly a Mexican side dish.

10. Ask students how we got from St. Patrick's Day to Guacamole (answer: they both are green).

11. Teach the students how to do the Merengue, a Spanish dance. Then teach them the dance moves with the singing to the song Guacamole!.

12. Have the students listen to the phrase, Take a chip, dip it, dip it, dip it. Take a chip, Dip itGuacamole! and have them only say the word Guacamole at the correct time in the phrase.

13. Sing and dance the entire song pulling out one or two students during the instrumental part to meringue.

14. If time, pick out 8 students (pairs) to say Guacamole at the correct time in the song.

15. Have students meringue out the door, one by one, taking a chip and dipping it in guacamole on their way out.

Assessments

The first formative assessment will be that students can answer higher level questions about the title of the song Joggin' Jig, and how pitches are different from the words in the song Joggin' Jig.
The second part of the assessment will be determined as students dance and sing the songs taught during the lesson (the Joggin' Jig and the Merengue). The student will have mastered the skill if he/she dances and sings the song correctly.
More practice will be necessary if a student is unable to dance or sing the song correctly.

Web Links

This is where you get all Music K-8 song books and CD's.
Music K-8