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As we kick off 2010, we’re taking a quick look back at the highlights from 2009. We’ve looked through our Web statistics to round up the content our users found to be most valuable. We hope seeing what other users are looking at, teaching with, and sharing with others will inspire your teaching in the coming year!
This Spolight presents quick-access to the ARTSEDGE Top 10— resources that each garnered more than 50,000 accesses. For the full list, visit our How-to, Getting Ahead by Looking Back.
Lessons:
A Listening Doll
Students discuss the process of storytelling and listening, and create a listening doll.
Elements of Dance
In this lesson, students will explore and discover the elements of dance by demonstrating various simple movements.
Arthur Miller and The Crucible
This lesson examines the consequences of personal conscience in conflict with rigid societal perceptions of what is "right" in human behavior, as articulated in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.
How-To:
Formal Visual Analysis: The Elements & Principles of Composition
Formal analysis is an important technique for organizing visual information. In other words, it is a strategy used to translate what you see into written words. This strategy can be applied to any work of art, from any period in history, whether a photograph, sculpture, painting or cultural artifact.
Look·Listen·Learn:
Drop Me Off in Harlem
Drop Me Off in Harlem explores the vibrant, complex, and unique moment in time that was the Harlem Renaissance.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Meet Shakespeare's star-crossed young lovers and find out why their story has captured the hearts of artists and audiences worldwide. Take a closer look at Romeo and Juliet and the works it has inspired.
Perfect Pitch
Batter up! This multimedia exploration introduces students to the most enduring all-stars of the orchestra: the instruments.
An Evening With Stephen Schwartz
In this video presentation, students meet one of American musical theater’s most talented composers, Stephen Schwartz. Topics include his musical education, his break into show business, and the creative process behind his musicals.
Nobody's Perfect
Learn more about this new Kennedy Center musical about a positively purple 10th birthday party and how two very different girls learn to understand each other.
Classical Music in America
Nationally-recognized NPR Morning Edition music commentator Miles Hoffman (and NSO alum) takes us on a tour through classical music in the United States from the 1720s to today.
Arabesque: Music of the Arab World
Join host Georges Collinet (from NPR's Afropop Worldwide) in this 3-part audio series that each explores a different aspect of Arab music: the musical instruments of the Arab World; what makes Arab music unique; and the styles of music in the Arab World.
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