Ms. Bull’s Grade 6 Shel Silverstein Poems with Mrs. Renauld

This sixth grade audio-visual music project began with students choosing a Shel Silverstein poem, one rich with visual and aural images. Students recorded their narrations into the Garageband program, then explored both Soundbible.com and the Garageband library to include music and sound ideas to enhance the poem’s mood and imagery. Students then created a video in iMovie, selecting appropriate visual images and incorporating their audio portion as the soundtrack. This lesson incorporated performing, improvising, composing, arranging, notating, listening, analyzing and describing music, as well as understanding music in relation to language and culture.

My thanks to Karin Gravina for her all her wisdom, help and patience during this project!
– Mrs. Renauld

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