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Call the Tune: Music in Literature Lesson PlanCall the Tune: Music in Literature Lesson Plan
Publisher
California Department of Education
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9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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3 days
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Call the Tune: Music in Literature

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This Call the Tune: Music in Literature lesson plan also includes:
  • List of Poetic Devices (.pdf)
  • List of Onomatopoeic Sound Words (.pdf)
  • Blank Double Clef Sheet Music (.pdf)
  • Poetic Devices Lecture for Call the Tune Lesson (.pptx)
  • Collection of Musical Poems (.pdf)
  • Rubric for Independent Practice of Poetry Analysis (.pdf)
  • Teacher Example of Strong Poetry Analysis Paragraph (.pdf)
  • Rubric for Musical Poem (.pdf)
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I am dancing to the music in my head. Scholars learn to listen for music in their heads as they read literature and poems. After they identify and analyze poetic devices that relate to music, they create their own musical poems.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

elements of music, literary analysis, lyric analysis, poetry analysis, poetry writing, poetic elements, lyric poetry

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Invite a musician or music teacher to visit the class and conduct rhythmic activities

Classroom Considerations

  • Part three of four in the Changing One's Tune: A Music Therapy STEM Integrated Project series
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  • Use alone or in a unit of study

Pros

  • Requires learners to think creatively 
  • Incorporates the arts with literature

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.11-12.4 W.9-10.4

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