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

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

 

 

Introductions

Hip Hop/Rap

Andrew Flory

 

Mark Albright:

Introductory group activity

 

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

Using songs in the Classroom

1:30 – 1:45

Tour of the VAT Guide, Jump drive, and Demo of VAT website

Break

Break

1:45 - 2:30

Break

Using Primary Sources in the Classroom

Mark Albright:

Intro to Song Activity and Demonstration

 

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

 

 

 

Prelude

(Song Activities)

 

9:45 – 10:30

 

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

Lynch (continued)

Sandage (continued)

Cohen (continued)

Graphic Organizers (continued)

11:30 – 12:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

12:30 – 1:30

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

 

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

Coda

3:00 – 4:30

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)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

Prelude

(Song Activities)

 

9:45 – 10:30

 

 

Field Trip:

Fort Pitt Museum

The French & Indian War

Jim Davis

Music of the Civil War

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

 

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

 

Song Activity:

“Free Amerikay”

Song Activity:

Songs of Protest:

“I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier”

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

Institute Project Meetings

Song Activity

Institute Project Meetings

Mariana Whitmer: Protest Songs of the 1960s

Wrap-Up and Intro to Week 4

2:45 – 3:00

Coda

Coda

Coda

Coda

Coda

3:00 – 4:30

Research /Library

Research/ Library

Research /Library

Research /Library

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

Thursday

Friday

9:00 – 9:45

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

 

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

Song Activity

Song Activity

Group Activity:

Cook

Song Activities:

Breakouts

1:45 – 2:00

Break

Break

Break

Break

2:00 – 2:45

Institute Project Meetings

Institute Project Meetings

Institute Project Meetings

Institute Project Meetings

2:45 – 3:00

Coda

Coda

Coda

Wrap-Up and

Intro to Week 5

 

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

 

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

 

 

Deane Root:

Questions of Copyright

Homemade American Music: Alan Jabbour

Dale Cockrell:

Little House Music

Institute Project Presentations

 

Final Song Activity

 

10:30 – 10:45

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

10:45 – 11:30

Garrett Haines

Music Dissemination from Wax Cylinders to the iPod

 

Jabbour (continued)

Cockrell (continued)

Small groups: how to introduce Voices Across Time when you return home

Bergad Presentation

 

Evaluations

11:30 – 12:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

12:30 – 1:45

Visit to Foster Museum

Song Analysis

Song Analysis:

“Uncle Sam’s Farm”

Song Analysis

 

Departure

 

1:45 – 2:00

Break

Break

Break

Break

2:00 – 2:45

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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