[HANASHIR:2867] Re: lesson plans and union organizing

[Meris Ruzow <meris...>]

Love the Klezmer Bulletin Board idea!!   Thanks so much -- I think I'll do
that myself and not use it as a sub project so that I can really teach them
about that style of terrific music!!   Thanks so much!
meris
-----Original Message-----
From: Rglauber (at) aol(dot)com <Rglauber (at) aol(dot)com>
To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 2:47 AM
Subject: [HANASHIR:2866] Re: lesson plans and union organizing


>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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