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Keywords: Recitations, Raps, Music Composition, garageband, apple loops
Subject(s): Art, Photography, Video, Technology, Music, English/Language Arts
Grades 3 through 12
NETS-S Standard:
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Technology Operations and Concepts
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School: Leman Academy of Excellence, Marana, Tucson, AZ
Planned By: Cathy Letkeman
Original Author: Cathy Letkeman, Tucson
Using a recitation or original poetry, turn poem into a rap
-use garageband loops to accompany the rap
-create a video montage of pictures (photographed by scholars with iPad, or found in Google images or other graphics program/application) to complement the poem
-record rapped recitation, and add it to video montage in iMovie

Classical Application (integration of music & classroom learning): applying recitation in a complementary form which may help with retention/memory/meaningful connections
Cross-Curriculum Ideas
applying poetry recitation in a complementary form which may help with retention/memory/meaningful connections
Follow-Up
Share video montage with school in a showcase format; tied together with a theme, perhaps?
Materials: Digital Cameras, Digital Voice Recorders, Microphones, Headsets, Video Tools, Music, Early Composition, Sound Libraries
Other Items: 1 36 ipads w/charging cart http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/product?id=iPad-CC-36, $4899.00 each, total of $4899.00
3 set of 10 headsets http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/product?id=3064AV-10, $98.00 each, total of $294.00