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🎵 3rd Grade · MusicMU:Cn11.0Unit 4: Listening & music history

American music

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🎯 Objective: Students explore blues, jazz and folk music.

Lesson outline

  1. Listen.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Perform.
  4. Exit: one style.

Lesson 3 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MU:Cn11.0

National Core Arts Standards — General Music (grade band 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe music with musical terms
  • Connect music to history and culture

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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More lessons in “Listening & music history”

  1. Orchestra
  2. Form: ABA and rondo
  3. American music
  4. Music of the world

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