Update: the free American music history curriculum I posted here in March now has an interactive web course
Back in March I posted a free full-year American music history and listening curriculum here. Several of you said you were planning to use it, so here is what is different before this school year starts.
The listening material is now an interactive web course, not just PDFs. Same eight units, same D-A-C-E framework (Describe, Analyze, Contextualize, Evaluate). You can put it on a screen for a whole section or hand students the link on their own devices. Nothing to install and no accounts. It is built around the country's 250th, so the timing lines up with this year without you having to build anything around it.
The documents also went through an outside review and came back corrected and expanded:
Teacher Edition, 70 pages: unit overviews, four-week pacing guides, modeled daily lessons, listening prompts, eight projects, sample responses, and grading guidance
Student Workbook, 27 pages: one major project per unit using the D-A-C-E framework, plus response sheets and reflection pages
Administrator Overview, 10 pages, now including a crosswalk that maps the assessed course activities to the Illinois introductory high school music standards
Teacher Project Packet, 29 pages: the project handouts on their own, which existed before but was never linked
If you have ever been handed a music appreciation or general music section on top of your ensemble load with no curriculum and no budget, that is the situation this was built for. I wrote it because I got assigned one. It is a full year of pacing, daily lessons, listening prompts, projects, and grading guidance, and you can teach it as written or pull a single unit.
Still free, still no signup.
Link: https://virtunity.io/go/ama-rd1
Same as last time, that is my site and there is nothing to buy on that page.
If you taught any of the March version, I would like to hear what fell flat.
