Dec. 8, 2010: A Singing Family

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Activities:

1. Design a poster that announces a von Trapp family appearance in your town.

2. Find five items in the newspaper that a modern musical family could use.

3. Find a newspaper story about a family working together on a project. Write about their work.

4. How were these important to the von Trapp family: (a) the Salzburg Music Festival, (b) World War II, and (c) the movie "The Sound of Music"?

5. Pretend you have a musical group. Make up a name. Design costumes. Choose a type of music. Then make a brochure with pictures and information about your group.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standard:

• Students identify and describe roles of musicians in various music settings and cultures. (Music: History and Culture)
  

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)