Looking for ways to give students input for musical programs? In this podcast episode, I discuss a process I used for giving my fifth graders input for their recent musical program, based on the book “To Be a Drum,” by Evelyn Coleman and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson.
Listen to the podcast here:
- Links to blog posts about musical programs
- Links to songs
- Freedom Train (in this blog post)
- Banuwa
- Obwisana
- Links to resources
- Outline of process:
- Choose a book
- Read the book
- Type up the book into a script for small group input
- Give students 20-25 minutes to work in small groups and write ideas
- Compile the ideas, songs, performance pieces, etc. into a script
- Keep asking for input
- Perform!
- Have students reflect after performing
- Link to episode 8: Planning for a program
- What I'm Consuming: Spooked! Podcast
