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Curated OER

Off Jazz: Terminology Tap Dance

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Off Jazz provides a list of forms and styles of tap dancing, including a brief definition of Soft Shoe tap dance.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Allemande

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a definition of allemande, a type of dance popular in Baroque music. Includes hyperlinked terms.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Minuet

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers an excellent definition of the minuet, a dance for 2 persons in 3/4 time. Includes many hyperlinked terms.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Cadence

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the musical term cadence and its importance in music and dance. Includes a description of the four main types of cadences in modern music theory and other definitions of cadence at this site.
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Activity
Morning Earth

Life Lives in Circles: Introduction Life Materials Cycle and Re Cycle

For Students 5th - 9th
Scholars explore the Biology concept of life cycles. The tutorial consists of definitions, examples, and pictures. Topics include the great circle dance and life-materials.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Dreams and Musical Feet

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.
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Website
Other

English Folk and Traditional Music on the Internet

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a thorough list of links relating to the definitions, organisations, libraries, archives, museums, research, magazines, journals, discographies, bibliographies, songs, tunes, dances, instruments, specific genres,...
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Website
Other

New Wave City: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
A good, informative site describing New Wave music and fashion. Includes a history of New Wave City and how it has played a role in new wave music from 1977 to 1985.