Music Unit Plan

My unit plan subject is Music. I was really excited about the Inspiration 9 software that I purchased it. This was from the Youtube video hyperlink in our Assignment tab. So I create my unit plan from the Inspiration software and it was a wonderful experience. The applications are easy to follow and I immediately produced my unit plan within an hour. I followed the Maryland State Volunteer Curriculum (VSC) for Music as I created my main topic, objective, narrative objective, material list, assessment, etc. For my lesson plan I chose in the Book “Teaching for Joy and Justice” by Linda Christensen chapter 5- Language and Power. What draw my attention to this particular chapter were the many facts about certain ethnic groups who experienced language genocide and how they struggled due to the denial of their native dialect yet and how fighting for their right to their native language they could established their identity which gave them power and saved their language. In Oregon, the author explains, is the hot bed of language death. One particular old woman knows of the old Oregon dialect that is rarely spoken because locals resent this type of talk. A man about 50 years old is the youngest person who speaks the dialect. Now he teaches it in a school for children to understand their language. This is of one story of many that depicts this same type of narrative. The teacher in this lesson combine the stories, it is referred to as Tea Party, where the students are asked in a first person account their thoughts about certain characters and circumstances of each story. The objective of the lesson is to show that language and power are unique and that inclusive, not exclusive, right to your native language is essential for identity, unity, and productivity which will fortify your nationality building power from within each culture. My professional development I used in this unit plan was to infuse technology. I have used Power Point slides before but never have I used the Inspiration 9 software. This to me is an up-grade from just using Power Point slides. I could cut/paste objectives to my lessons I created from the unit plan. I can present graphics and objects other then words in my work better and faster with my new software.