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“The Star-Spangled Banner” and will be asked to write music (using Finale or Finale Notepad)

Objective: Students will use the ideas of one poet and will musically highlight those ideas however they see fit.

Activity: Students will be given the text of the “The Star-Spangled Banner” and will be asked to write music (using Finale or Finale Notepad) that highlights portions of the text they feel are important. Students will then share their new melody with the class, and the class will discuss the effectiveness of each melody.

Assessment: Are students using pitches in music to enhance the text of Francis Scott Key’s poem? How are students adjusting the music to “The Star-Spangled Banner”? (Is the new melody more easily accessible than Key’s melody?)