Additional Resources

I found more resources that are more general and can help with the lesson planning.  Other resources showed me ways to help students actually use the music to help them gain a deeper understanding of historical events.  One resource provides different types of musical analysis questions, while another provides worksheets with analytical questions.

https://primarysourcenexus.org/2012/05/analyzing-primary-sources-learning-from-music/

·         This resource provides ways to analyze a piece of music as a primary source.  It gave me new ways to have students listen to music and different types of questions to ask them.  These questions show students how to observe, reflect, and then question after they listen to a piece of music.

https://folkways.si.edu/

·         This resource is a vast collection of music that can be streamed, as well as news stories about artists from all genres and all time periods.

http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_into_the_classroom.html

·         This page prides a sample set of lesson plans that cover American Roots Music.  Even if I do not use these exact lessons, it provides an example of how to incorporate music into history lessons.

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets

·         This resource is a collection of various primary source analysis worksheets that can be used when asking students to look at or listen to musical texts.  These can be modified to fit many different types of lessons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMIn9Y9hF9U

·         This YouTube video is titled “5 Ways to Use Music in Your Class”.  A couple of them are not applicable, but the others are good ways to integrate music into the history, as well as ideas for assignments, and ways to let music help students that are otherwise shy in the classroom.