Colleague Sessions

My partner and I have been meeting occasionally to continue our work on the immigration unit.We have focused on the concept of adaptation and Alicia is creating lessons to illustrate how music and dance have adapted overtime and how ethnic music has and does influence music created in the United States today. She has been collecting songs and music that have either integrated ethnic music and created something new or a song that may tell a story of immigrants in America such as the Irish working on the Transcontinental Railroad or Blue Grass Music's roots, or Acadian Music and it's story. She will teach students traditional dance but have them create movements to music as well. She also plans to have the student compose music to go along with Haiku poems they write.