Fine Arts - Music Ninth - Twelfth Grades
Musical Moods
The Olympic Games stress peaceful competition. This activity provides an opportunity for students
to collaborate on a selection of music that reflects peaceful respect and civility.
Themes
Respect, Peace, Diversity, Civic Responsibility
Core Life Skill Connections
Life-long learning appreciates a variety of cultural contributions
and artistic expressions; shows aesthetic awareness through demonstrating an understanding of
the subtleties and details of everyday living and participating in the arts for enjoyment and
personal growth.
Complex Thinking uses creative, critical problem-solving,
decision-making, and innovative thinking processes; puts information together in new and unique
ways; balances reason and emotion in decision making; considers new ideas and various perspectives
to broaden insight and increase understanding.
Effective Communication successfully interacts with others using a
variety of mediums; expresses ideas, feelings, and beliefs aesthetically; evaluates the
effectiveness of communication; receives and understands ideas communicated through a variety
of modes; adapts and adjusts communication to suit the needs of the intended audience.
Collaboration works effectively with others to identify and achieve
specified results; values differences and similarities among groups members; respects cultural
and ethnic differences and builds on them in positive ways; treats others with compassion;
resolves conflicts positively.
Responsible Citizenship acknowledges that all people have innate worth;
demonstrates respect for human dignity, needs, and rights; works towards improvement in society;
Learning Outcomes
Students Will:
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Learn and experience one of the best opportunities of the Olympic games; building
relationships of respect, and civility that contribute to world peace.
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Collaborate together on the selection of music, its interpretation, and staging, and learn
how to promote the giving and earning of respect and civility as they work.
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Discover, learn, and perform together many songs and musical pieces to inspire and promote
mutual respect, civility, and peace.
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Activity: Music Represents Feelings and Ideas
Preparation
60 minutes
Gather general information about respect, civility and world peace and specific examples of these
values relating to the Olympics.
Gather information about respect, civility and peace achieved through music.
Gather examples of possible music.
Tools and Resources
Music from the Light the Fire Within™: The Governor's Music & Education Program
Instruction
Ask students to define the words respect, civility and peace. Ask them how these words might
apply to the Olympic games. Explain that the Olympics are built on a foundation of character
values.
Read The Olympic Experience background material. Discuss the ways in which the Olympics have
encouraged respect, civility and peace.
Read the following quote to the students:
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"Many of the conflicts destructive to peace emerge from two main sources. One is our
inability to deal with anger positively, and the other is our inability to build good
relationships, meaningful relationships. If we could learn these two things, we would
be able to reduce violence in human society by as much as 90 percent."
Reflections of Peace, by Arun Gandhi
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Share a positive example of someone you know who exemplified these values. Ask students to
observe how others reflect respect, civility, and peace in their life. Identify ways that this
can be shown in daily activities, especially in music activities.
Brainstorm a list of possible musical selections, including those from Light the Fire Within™:
The Governor's Music & Education Program, that could develop and inspire these values. Ask
students to collaborate together on the selection of music, its interpretation, and staging,
and tell how the music selected communicates these values. Students should promote the giving
and earning of respect and civility during rehearsal while performing the selected piece.
Assessment
Extensions
After learning how powerful it is to improve respect, civility and peace through music, extend
this interest by planning how to share these values with family, friends, or someone who needs a
friend.
Begin a collection of "peace" songs. Create an original song. Send it to a student in a school
from a country that will be sending athletes to the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in SLC using video
or Internet.
Further Research
Internet Resources
Other Resources
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