Books
Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma
ride across town on a bus to a soup kitchen where
they volunteer to serve food. Throughout the ride
on the bus marked “5 Market Street,” CJ questions
his grandma about why they ride the bus, why
they don’t have a car,
Last Stop on Market Street
The collection of his poems include stories about a boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. He wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends.
Shel Silverstein
This element of music is the underlying pulse that makes you tap your foot, clap your hands or dance along with the music
Rhythm
Rhapsody in Blue
An American in Paris
Strike up the Band
George Gershwin
This slow dance was first introduced in the mid-19th century and popularized by Johann Strauss's music. It is danced in 3⁄4 time and contains many turns and change steps. The couple dancing frequently turns in a clockwise or counter clockwise direction as they move across the floor. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers often performed waltzes during their movies.
Waltz
the squirrel does have superpowers. He types messages on a typewriter and keyboard. He can fly. When Flora and her dad go to the Donut shop, the girl takes the squirrel with them.
Flora and Ulysses
He wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There and Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
the highness or lowness of a sound
pitch
Was composing by age 5.
Wrote in all musical genres of his day
The Marriage of Figaro
Don Giovanni
Mozart
This social and partner dance originated in Argentina along the Rio de la Plata in the 1880s. It became popular due to a shortage of women in the working class people of the area. The style performed in dance competitions is called the International style and was developed in England. The woman is held in the crook of the man’s arm. She holds her head back and rests her hand on the man’s hip while the man leads her around the room in a curving pattern. Women usually wear high heel tango dance shoes and dresses with asymmetrical hemlines.
Tango
The book demonstrates the protective role of Indigenous People toward caring for the earth. Written and illustrated by two indigenous women, this book is narrated by an Ojibwe girl recalling a life lesson from her grandmother: the supreme importance of water to all life forms.
We Are Water Protectors
She wrote, The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science,
Hello,Earth! Poems to Our Planet,
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
Joyce Sidman
the sequence of notes that makes a recognizable tune
Melody
Swan Lake
The Sleeping Beauty
The Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky
This is a playful and flirtatious dance. It originated in the 1940s in Cuba. It requires small steps and a lot of hip movements. It is danced in 4/4 time, with the fourth beat being split into two. The five steps are danced in four beats so that it becomes “One, two, __, ___, ___.”
Cha-cha-cha
Written by Kwame Alexander
Nelson portrays American heroes, past and present, including the countless African American activists, artists, athletes, musicians, and writers whose contributions have enriched American culture. Name this 2020 Caldecott book.
The Undefeated
He wrote “Mother to Son” – a poem where the mother compares her life to a crystal stair and tells her son that even though her life hasn’t been easy, she never gave up. The message is clear: Don’t give up even when things are tough.
Langston Hughes
Means when two or more notes are played or sung at the same time. When many instruments play notes together or when many singers sing different notes at the same time, this is created.
Harmony
American composer:
Appalachian Spring
Rodeo
Billy the Kid
Aaron Copland
Named for its creator, Harry Fox. According to legend, Harry developed the dance while performing in Vaudeville and practicing on rooftops. In 1914, Vernon and Irene Castle brought the dance popularity as they performed it. By the 1940s, this dance became America's most popular fast dance. The dance is in 4/4 time with a syncopated rhythm. Most of the steps of the dance are walking steps, side steps, and quarter turns.
Fox Trot
A picture book about the childhood and life of Puerto Rican-Haitian American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The book celebrates Basquiat’s art and traces the early steps of his artistic formation, as he makes his way toward the pinnacle of fame.
Radiant Child
He wrote:
“Paul Revere’s Ride”
“The Courtship of Miles Standish”
“The Song of Hiawatha”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In music, it means how loudly or softly the music is played. Certain words are important indicators of the loudness of a note. The most common are piano (meaning soft) and forte (meaning loud).
dynamics
Moonlight Sonata
Ninth Symphony – choral symphony – Schiller’s poem “Ode to Joy”
Fifth Symphony
Beethoven
This happy dance involves a lot of knee-lifting and hip-rocking. It requires a lot of kicks and controlled flicks by the dancers. It originated in the United States in the 1940s and consisted of two triple steps and one rock step.
Jive