Enduring Understanding 2: The arts reflect and document cultural trends and historical events, and help explain how new directions in the arts have emerged.

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Number: MU.5.H.2
Title: The arts reflect and document cultural trends and historical events, and help explain how new directions in the arts have emerged.
Type: Enduring Understanding
Subject: Music
Grade: 5
Big Idea: Historical and Global Connections

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This cluster includes the following access points.

Independent

MU.5.H.2.In.a
Identify musicians and composers for a specific historical period.
MU.5.H.2.In.b
Identify and use a variety of technologies to experience music.

Supported

MU.5.H.2.Su.a
Recognize selected music for a specific historical period.
MU.5.H.2.Su.b
Recognize and use selected technologies to experience music.

Participatory

MU.5.H.2.Pa.a
Explore music from a specific historical period.
MU.5.H.2.Pa.b
Use a selected technology to experience music.

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Lesson Plan

U.S. SYMBOLS: “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER”:

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to read and recognize how the “Star-Spangled Banner” anthem, originally named, “Defense of Fort McHenry,” represents the United States. By analyzing how the poetic elements of rhyme and imagery contribute to the meaning of each of the verses of the Star-Spangled Banner, students will recognize the importance of this American symbol.

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