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🎵 7th Grade · MusicMU:Re7.2Unit 4: American music history & genres

Jazz

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🎯 Objective: Students describe jazz elements: swing and improvisation.

Lesson outline

  1. Listen.
  2. Improvise.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: define swing.

Lesson 2 of 3 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:Re7.2

National Core Arts Standards — General Music (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Trace American music genres
  • Connect music to social history

✅ 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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