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Lesson Plan
PBS

Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Impact of Language

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed Standards
Author, filmmaker, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was also a dialectologist. The dialogue of the characters in her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God reveals her fascination with accents and dialects. A short video from the Great...
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PPT
Curated OER

PSYC 2207 (Speech): Lecture One

For Teachers Higher Ed
A great way to introduce a speech pathology or psychology class, this lecture takes students through various theories on speech perception and speech production. Students will find the information applicable and easy to digest, and...
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PPT
Curated OER

Eng 312: Midsemester Exam

For Teachers Higher Ed
Using the text Language Awareness by Eschholz, Rosa and Clark, as well as previous lectures from the class, this slideshow presents students with a midterm addressing key terms and concepts. While teachers might have a hard time using...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Accents

For Students 5th - 10th
In this accents instructional activity, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Native American Song and Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the importance of the drum and drumming in the cultural context of the Native American. Musical insturments and native dance is employed to support the focus of the lesson.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Music

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders incorporate two formal music lessons into the core curriculum. They study whole notes and rests, syllables of the musical scale and practice singing.
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Handout
San Diego State University

Sd State: Elements of Music Part Five

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extensive website on other musical elements; but "accents" is thoroughly covered. You must scroll down to "dynamics."
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Activity
BBC

Bbc: Voices: Schools: Speech Styles and Standard English [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Some activities to do with students to help them understand about dialects and accents. Presents a poem written phonetically with a Londoner's accent, two more poems with lesson ideas, and a story with some non-standard English words...
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Article
OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Articulation

For Students 9th - 10th
In music, notes often times must be articulated in certain ways. This site explains the various common articulations found in most music.
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Website
Other

Tomas Howie Drumming Web: Reading Music

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by Tomas Howie and Drumming Web. Although originally written for the drummer, any aspiring musician could benefit from the explanation of how to read music and the examples it contains. Drummers will want to...