Webquest Benny Goodman

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A WebQuest for High School Music Students Designed byJames Ceimet

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In the beginning of the Jazz era, musicians were segregated. It wasn’t until Benny

Goodman started using a mixed ensemble that jazz became a media of everyone.

Your group will research Benny Goodman, “The king of Swing”. You must find

information about Benny Goodman using the internet including his life, his music

and his orchestra and create a power point presentation and one other task.

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Create a PowerPoint presentation of Benny Goodman’s life. The

presentation should include:

•Time line with Important dates

•Important hit songs

•Videos if possible

•Pictures

•Important historical events of the era.

Also the students will choose one of the following:

•Perform a short 16 measure excerpt from any Benny Goodman song on any

instrument from his big band.

•Research one other famous jazz musician that performed in Benny Goodman’s

swing band and describe 5 fun fact about this person.

•Design an album cover for Benny Goodman’s next record.

•Choose one instrument from Benny Goodman’s band and describe why you like it.

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1. First you’ll be assigned into groups of four people.

2. In 15 slides or less create a power point presentation of Benny Goodman’s biography to share with the class.

3. Students will also choose and complete one of the additional tasks and present it to the class.

References:

http://www.redhotjazz.com/goodman.html

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_goodman_benny.htm

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/kids/

http://www.bennygoodman.com/

http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/bennygoodman.htm

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=16281

http://www.bigbandsandbignames.com/BennyGoodmanReview.html

http://www.just-the-swing.com/bio/benny-goodman

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By finishing this project the students should be able to comprehensively use PowerPoint software, generally understand the aspects of Benny Goodman’s biography, have a deeper understanding of notating and performing swing jazz music, and be familiar with historical events of the swing era.

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A WebQuest for High School Music Students Designed byJames Ceimet

[email protected]

http://webquest.org/index.php

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This project is intended to broaden the students knowledge of important musicians

while meeting the educational standards for music.

Students will research Biographical information using the internet and create a

PowerPoint presentation to the class as well as one other task of their choice.Evaluation

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This lesson was created for high school students and is focused on music history

and music comprehension.

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STANDARD 1: Students sing or play oninstruments a varied repertoire of music, alone orwith others.Grades 9-12As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes• singing or playing, with appropriate technique, music written in multiple parts,improving blend, and matching dynamic levels;• singing or playing an expanding repertoire of vocal and/or instrumental literature• responding to the conductor’s cues of phrasing* and expression* while singing or playing music.

STANDARD 2: Students will read and notatemusic. Grades 9-12As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to doincludes• identifying, defining, and reading standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm,dynamics, style*, and tempo;• reading advanced rhythmic and melodic notation; and• notating advanced rhythmic, melodic, and expressive musical ideas.

STANDARD 3: Students will create music.As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to doincludes• creating rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic patterns or phrases; and• improvising/creating a melody (melodies) over a chord progression.

STANDARD 5: Students will relate music tovarious historical and cultural traditions.Grades 9-12As students in grades 9-12 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to doIncludes:• identifying and explaining the features of a given musical work in its historical orcultural context and•comparing and evaluating the roles of musicians throughout history and in variouscultures

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1. First you’ll be assigned into groups of four people.

2. In 15 slides or less create a power point presentation of Benny Goodman’s biography to share with the class.

3. Students will also choose and complete one of the additional tasks and present it to the class.

-Majority of this project is to be done out side of class time and may require teacher refinement.

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Materials needed:

• Microsoft Powerpoint

•Sheet music for students to perform from.

•Time in class to describe project and to select groups.

•Students to have access to computers and the internet.

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This Webquest is designed to be simple and easy for the students to understand

and follow. Although most of the information is provided through links students may

need guidance for selecting appropriate sheet music.

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By finishing this project the students should be able to comprehensively use

PowerPoint software, generally understand the aspects of Benny Goodman’s

biography, have a deeper understanding of notating and performing swing jazz

music, and be familiar with historical events of the swing era. This webquest was

created with all of the music standards in mind.

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