[HANASHIR:2866] Re: lesson plans and union organizing

[Rglauber <Rglauber...>]

For first and second graders do you think this would work?  Get hold of some 
klezmer music, preferably a freylich with lots of excitement and lots of 
eastern/gypsy feeling.  Ask the kids to close their eyes and when the music 
plays, to see if it makes a picture in their minds.  Let it play for several 
minutes before you ask for suggestions of the kinds of things they saw in 
their imaginations. 

Ask them to share some of their ideas about what the music inspired in them.  
Maybe it sounded like a circus, or horses, or a big party or a parade.  Ask 
the children to draw a picture of one of the ideas, and collect them into a 
klezmer display for the bulletin board.....  

Fill in with some information about klezmer music, how they often travelled 
from town to town to play for parties and weddings etc.....  Here are the 
instruments that you heard.......    clarinet, trumpet etc......

There is a wide spectrum of music which could be used for this activity, but 
I think Klezmer is a good place to start.  It's real colorful, yes?

Also Kudos to Laura Berkson for that great information on the union 
possibilities.  That is a very interesting and useful piece of data.  Thanks 
for thinking of us.....

Rich Glauber

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