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NYS Content Area Standard

Arts: Standard 1: Creating & Performing

Social Studies: Standard 1: History of the U.S. & N.Y.
 Title: The Revolutionary War & the Adirondacks

Grade Level: Music/4th Grade

Author: Thomas Hemans
Ballston Spa Central School

Email: THemans51@msn.com
 Adirondack Curriculum Content Area
___ Natural History
_X_ Human History
_X_ Culture & the Arts
___ Government & Civics
___ Economy
___ Health, Recreation & Life Skills

Investigative Question or Issue: How can we recount our "history" through song?

Challenge:  
Context for this challenge: The teacher should introduce this challenge to the students before they conduct their research so they know what kinds of information they will be looking/listening for. In addition to hearing from Dan Berggren, students may need access to additional resources regarding the history of the Adirondacks during the Revolutionary War.

The Challenge: After hearing from your guest speaker, work together as a class to create a song that tells something of the important history of the Adirondacks during the Revolutionary war. Your song will be sung on Flag Day as part of a school celebration.

It is important that your song convey important and accurate information about the Adirondacks during this period in history. It will help if your song is entertaining, easy to understand, and easy to remember. It might make it easier for you if you set your original lyrics to a popular melody that everyone knows. Make sure the lyrics fit the melody.

Please be sure that the information you include in your song is accurate.

Quality Standards:  


- The song tells the story of important historical events regarding the Adirondacks during the Revolutionary War
- The historica information communicated by the song is accurate
- The song is entertaining and easy to understand
- The lyrics of the song fit its melody
Adapted for the Adirondack Curriculum Project from the work of Education By Design TM and Leading EDGE, LLC ©ACP 2002

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   The song tells the story of important historical events regarding the Adirondacks during the Revolutionary War  40  
   The historical information communicated by the song is accurate  20  
   The song is entertaining and easy to understand  20  
   The lyrics of the song fit its melody  20  
       
       
 
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Comments: NYSCA This song is being composed to become part of a Flag Day ceremony that completes the fourth graders research in to early American history.  It will be sung and presented with a stage presentation each year.