Websites with lesson plans for teachers
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/teachers.html
Teachers’ lesson plans for the PBS “Broadway: The Great American Musical” documentary series. Grade levels 8-12. Downloadable teachers’ guide available.
http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=rodgers+and+hammerstein&media=lesson
Twenty-eight Rodgers and Hammerstein lesson plans reviewed by teachers, for grades 3-12. Requires registration. Free 10-day account available.
Also:
http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=irving+berlin&media=lesson
Thirty-one Irving Berlin lessons plans reviewed by teachers, for grades
http://www.rpo.org/UserFiles/File/PDF/intermediate_04_05/Gershwin.pdf
Lesson plan using George Gershwin’s “Cuban Overture.” Middle grades.
http://www.songbookproject.com/Default.aspx
The Songbook Project aims to introduce the great songs of the American Songbook to children
across America and to give them the experience of recording these songs onto their school’s own professionally produced CD. Contains lessons plans on Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, and Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.
http://350th.org/er/lp/haven/lp12.html
“ American Jews and Popular Culture: Yiddish.” American Jewish popular culture was largely influenced by the Jewish immigrants who came to American from Eastern Europe between 1880 and 1924. These immigrants tended to speak Yiddish as their daily language, and it is the language that influenced much of the press, theater, radio, literature and music in this country. As families settled in the United States they were faced with a new culture, a new language and a growing economy, all of which represented extreme new freedoms for the people arriving from Eastern Europe. Grade 10.
