WoodSongs Classroom
WOODSONGS in the CLASSROOM is a Music & Arts Education Project involving music, history, language arts and more designed to encourage community and creativity. They’re FREE. Choose the ones you want your students to enjoy and make sure you register your school or family by sending an email to Teachers@woodsongs.comwith your name/school/city/state or call us 859-255-5700.
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Read this page first and then visit our DOWNLOAD CENTER for all the teaching materials and LESSON PLANS
Why are we doing this?
At the height of World War II, a reporter supposedly asked Winston Churchill if he intended on eliminating the arts from the government budget to pay for the war effort. His belowed, “Then what are we fighting for?” Music and art is worth fighting for, so we offer all of this free of charge to teachers and home school families.
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SONGS CLASSROOM Video/Streaming project: MIDDLE, HIGH SCHOOL and COLLEGE Lesson Plans available. This project uses the streaming WoodSongs public television broadcast as an in-class teaching tool. Students watch select 25 minute segments of WoodSongs on y
our projection screen or desk top. LESSON PLANS: The goal of this project is to encourage love and passion for the arts. You will be amazed at the array of choices you will have. Simply register your school and VISIT our Teacher’s Download center. This is all FREE to schools.
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Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau is a simple-to-produce play (2 acts, one set, four characters. Each act is about 25 minutes long; total performing time 55 minutes) that can be acted as a theater production, read as a script reading in class, watched as a DVD or streamed into the classroom online. Ideal for 8-12 and college. This project includes lesson plans for middle, high and college, perfect for studies on writing, English, history, drama, Thoreau, Emerson and more. The two act, four character 45 minute play is mainly a conversation between Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson set during the final two days Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. The dialogue of the play is based on actual quotes from the writing and letters of Thoreau and Emerson. To get the play script and materials simply go to our Teacher’s Download center.
READ the scholarly review of the Walden play published in the “Journal for the Center of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning” at BOSTON UNIVERSITY by William Christopher Brown, PH.D: click here
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Browse the array of FREE roots music teaching tools and projects you can use. Make sure you email us your registration info first!
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QUESTIONS: Does the Classroom program, Walden Play and Coffeehouse cost us anything? No, not a cent.
Why Is This Project FREE to schools?
Our Classroom program is provided free to schools because of the fundraising efforts of the WoodSongs Front Porch Association (WFPA 501-c-3) membership. Most of the funds are generated by the yearly WoodSongs Gathering. We would love for you to become a member of the WFPA, but it is not necessary in order to use the educational programs we provide.