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Grade 5
Web-Based Activities
Unit 1: United by Music
Lesson 1
Moving Together
Page 14: A Processional from the Time of Purcell
Lesson 3
Your Voice: A Personal Musical Instrument
Page 22: Bobby McFerrin
Page 26: Jean Ritchie
Lesson 4
Everybody Loves a Melody
Page 29: Highlife Music
Lesson 5
Time for Rhythm
Page 37: Kulintang
Page 38: M. C. Escher
Lesson 8
Texture in Music
Page 48: Georgia O'Keeffe
Page 49: Ki no Tsurayuki
Encore
Our Hands, Our Hearts
Page 60: Native American Arts
Unit 2: Power in Rhythm
Lesson 1
Drums!
Page 69: "Funga Alafia" and African Drums
Lesson 3
Rhythm—It's Clearly Popular
Page 76: "I Got Rhythm" and Ethel Merman
Unit 3: Expressions of Freedom
Lesson 1
Sing Out for Freedom
Page 120: The Wizard of Oz
Lesson 2
Musical Freedom
Page 129: "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" and Henry van Dyke
Lesson 5
Steps to a New Sound
Page 143: Art of M. C. Escher
Lesson 8
Musical Freedom
Page 154: N'kosi Sikelel' i Afrika
Encore
Harriet, the Woman Called Moses
Page 164: Harriet, the Woman Called Moses
Page 165: Characters and Events in "Go Down, Moses"
Page 165: Harriet Tubman and "Go Down, Moses"
Unit 4: Sea to Shining Sea
Unit Opener
Page 169: "I Hear America Singing" and Walt Whitman
Lesson 1
Traveling Through America
Page 172: Katharine Lee Bates
Page 176: A Trip on the Erie Canal
Page 176: History of the Erie Canal
Lesson 6
A Game from the Plains
Page 197: George Catlin and Native Americans
Lesson 8
Journey's End
Page 207: "As I Row"
Encore
Simple Gifts—The World of the Shakers
Page 215: Shakers
Unit 5: Expressions of Style
Lesson 2
Folk Styles from the Past
Page 230: "Clementine" and the Gold Rush
Lesson 6
Tone Colors from the Far East
Page 246: Kota Bharu
Lesson 8
The Importance of Style
Page 255: Iroquois Story
Page 255: Iroquois Tall Tales
Encore
Drumming Along
Page 266: Frame Drums
Page 266: Glen Velez and Frame Drums
Unit 6: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Lesson 1
Forming the Future
Page 274: Franz Josef Haydn
Page 275: Samoan Language
Lesson 3
Tempo Travels
Page 285: Yo Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin
Lesson 6
Past and Present Rhythms
Page 297: Deborah Butterfield
Lesson 8
The Loud and Soft of It
Page 303: Langston Hughes
Celebrations
Hooray
Page 323: John Philip Sousa
Halloween
Page 327: Walter de la Mare
Thanksgiving
Page 328: Thanksgiving
Winter Enchantment
Page 337: Good King Wenceslas
Celebrate Kwanzaa
Page 356: James Weldon Johnson
Let Freedom Ring
Page 362: I Have a Dream
Music Library
Choral Anthology
Page 398: Li Po
Page 400: Handel
Page 401: Wolf and Mörike
Page 404: The Kettle Valley Line
Page 406: Robert Starer
Listening Anthology
Page 416: Gregorian Chant
Page 417: Stained Glass