Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song
Daily Schedule Week 1 (June 24-June 28th): Moving Along
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Moving
Along |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
9:00 – 9:45
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Summer Scholars Arrive in Pittsburgh
Welcome event 6:00 PM |
Prelude/Musical Autobiographies (6) |
Field Trip: Pittsburgh Tour
(8:30-3:30)
Lunch and afternoon at
Bulgarian-Macedonian Club |
Prelude/
Musical Autobiographies (5) |
Prelude/
Musical Autobiographies (5) |
9:45 – 10:30
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Introductions |
Hip Hop/Rap
Andrew Flory
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Mark Albright:
Introductory group activity
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Deane Root:
Overview of “Voices Across Time”/Evaluations |
Break |
Break |
10:45 – 11:30 |
Break |
Flory (continued) |
Group Activity (continued) |
11:30 – 12:30 |
Susan Oehler Herrick:
Introduction and explanation of
Institute Project |
Lunch |
Lunch |
12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
Song Activity
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Using songs in the Classroom |
1:30 – 1:45 |
Tour of the VAT Guide, Jump drive, and Demo of VAT website |
Break
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Break |
1:45 - 2:30 |
Break |
Using Primary Sources in the Classroom |
Mark Albright:
Intro to Song Activity and Demonstration
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2:30 – 3:00 |
Teaching Strategies
Activity:
Soundtracks of Our Lives |
Musical Autobiographies (4) |
Musical Autobiographies (4) |
Wrap-up and intro to week 1 |
3:00 – 4:30 |
Tour of Campus, Music Library, Computer Labs, Carnegie Library, Hillman Library, and Foster Memorial |
Research /Library |
Research /Library |
Research/ Library |
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Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song
Daily Schedule Week 2 (July 1-July 5): Work
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Work |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
9:00 – 9:45 |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Holiday
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Prelude
(Song Activities) |
9:45 – 10:30
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Timothy Lynch:
Strike Songs of the Depression |
Scott Sandage:
American Industrialization |
Norm Cohen:
Songs of the Railroad |
Graphic Organizer Day |
10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
10:45 – 11:30
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Lynch (continued) |
Sandage (continued) |
Cohen (continued) |
Graphic Organizers (continued) |
11:30 – 12:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
12:30 – 1:30
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Teaching Strategies:
I Can Hear It Now, with
“Which Side Are You On?” |
Graphic Organizer:
Finding Patterns:
“Song of the Shirt” |
Graphic Organizer:
Plotting the Story:
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad: John Henry, Casey Jones, and others
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Graphic Organizer:
Compare/ Contrast: Current and historic labor songs |
1:30 – 1:45 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
1:45 -2:45 |
Deane Root:
Song Style Grid:
The Message in Musical Style |
Group Activity |
Railroad songs (continued) |
Wrap-Up and
Intro to Week 3 |
2:45 – 3:00 |
Coda |
Coda |
Coda |
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Coda |
3:00 – 4:30
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Research
/Library |
Research
/Library |
Research
/Library |
Research/ Library |
Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song
Daily Schedule Week 3 (July 8-12): War and Peace
War and Peace |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
9:00 – 9:45 |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude
(Song Activities)
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Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
9:45 – 10:30
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Field Trip:
Fort Pitt Museum
The French & Indian War |
Jim Davis
Music of the Civil War
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Scott Sandage:
World Wars |
Alexander Bloom: The Cultural Impact of the Vietnam Experience |
Mariana Whitmer:
Film Music in the Classroom |
10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
10:45 – 11:30
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Songs of the War of 1812
David & Ginger Hildebrand |
Davis (continued) |
Sandage (continued) |
Bloom (continued) |
Whitmer (continued) |
11:30 – 12:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
12:30 – 1:45
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Song Activity:
“Free Amerikay” |
Song Activity: |
Songs of Protest:
“I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier”
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Song Analysis:
“Fixin’ to Die Rag” |
Final Project Q & A
Demonstration of Final Project presentation (Albright) |
1:45 - 2:00 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
2:00 – 2:45
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Institute Project Meetings |
Song Activity |
Institute Project Meetings |
Mariana Whitmer: Protest Songs of the 1960s |
Wrap-Up and Intro to Week 4
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2:45 – 3:00 |
Coda |
Coda |
Coda |
Coda |
Coda |
3:00 – 4:30
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Research /Library |
Research/ Library |
Research /Library |
Research /Library
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Research /Library |
Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song
Daily Schedule Week 4 (July 15-19): United / Divided
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United/
Divided |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday
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Thursday |
Friday
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9:00 – 9:45
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Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Field Trip:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Leave: 7:45 am
Return: 5:00 pm |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
9:45 – 10:30 |
Root:
Music and Patriotism: What is a national anthem? |
Barbara Tischler
Music and Civil Rights Movement |
Susan Cook:
Ballads as Social Documentaries |
John Koegel:
German and Latin American Immigration
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
10:45 – 11:30 |
(continued) |
Tischler (continued) |
Cook (continued) |
Koegel (continued) |
11:30 – 12:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
12:30 – 1:45
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Song Activity
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Song Activity |
Group Activity:
Cook |
Song Activities:
Breakouts |
1:45 – 2:00 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
2:00 – 2:45 |
Institute Project Meetings
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Institute Project Meetings
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Institute Project Meetings |
Institute Project Meetings |
2:45 – 3:00 |
Coda |
Coda |
Coda |
Wrap-Up and
Intro to Week 5
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3:00 – 4:30 |
Research /Library |
Research/ Library |
Research /Library |
Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song
Daily Schedule Week 5 (July 22-26): Home
Home
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
9:00 – 9:45 |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude
(Song Activities) |
Prelude |
9:45 – 10:30
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Deane Root:
Questions of Copyright |
Homemade American Music: Alan Jabbour
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Dale Cockrell:
Little House Music
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Institute Project Presentations |
Final Song Activity
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
10:45 – 11:30
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Garrett Haines
Music Dissemination from Wax Cylinders to the iPod
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Jabbour (continued)
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Cockrell (continued)
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Small groups: how to introduce Voices Across Time when you return home |
Bergad Presentation
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Evaluations |
11:30 – 12:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
12:30 – 1:45
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Visit to Foster Museum
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Song Analysis |
Song Analysis:
“Uncle Sam’s Farm”
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Song Analysis |
Departure
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1:45 – 2:00 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
2:00 – 2:45
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Institute Project
Presentations |
Institute Project Presentations |
Institute Project Presentations |
Institute Project Presentations |
2:45 - 3:00 |
Coda |
Coda |
Coda |
Coda |
3:00 – 4:30 |
Research/ Library |
Research /Library |
Research /Library |
Closing Dinner |
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