My Line of Choir Sub Plans works with Non-Music Subs --- and one of them is FREE!

When I was in the classroom, I hated to be absent.

I could never find a sub that could teach choir, so it felt like I was giving work just to fill the time, and they didn't learn much of anything useful to progress as a choir.

So, I decided to create a line of sub plans for choir teachers, and I came up with things I think will definitely help the choir grow and move forward so that there is real learning about choir even though they aren't singing.

One of the sub plans is free in my TpT store.  

It's called Listen to Great Choirs.  Click that link to download it.  

Description-

*Downloadable and editable google slide presentation with clickable links to YouTube videos of performances and a Google Doc link for students that is easily copied and pasted by you to be edited as you wish.

*Any music/non-music sub can use it or you can use it as a one day 45-50 minute lesson.

*You can easily edit

*Sub Plans

Students will listen to 6 choir performances, and they will write briefly about them if a sub is in charge or they can discuss them live with you if you are present for the lesson.

I included information about the Seven Criteria for a Great Choir-

Tone, Pitch, Rhythm, Ensemble, Interpretation, Diction, Other Factors so they can review and think about those things as they evaluate. All seven are briefly explained in the document.

You or the sub will simply click the links, and then give them time to write/type/discuss their answers. They can turn them into the sub or submit to a digital platform...whatever works best for you.

Here is a link to another one-day lesson plan for subs (or for you)!

This article captures the realness of my journey with S-Cubed

I created S-Cubed while living in Atlanta even though so much of the work to create the program happened before I came here.  

I am so grateful to have this article from people who saw the work and recognized it.

Voyage Atlanta

Give it a read.

They helped me tell my story.

Oh the things we can teach through Musical Theater and Broadway Shows-The Sound of Music and my FREE Hairspray Unit!

If you follow my work, you know that I am obsessed with Broadway musicals.  When I was in the classroom, I used musical theater to talk about and teach things to the students about social issues and history all while learning about music.  I loved it, and they could tell I loved it, so they loved it too.

It all started with "The Sound of Music".  I remember showing it to my 6th graders during my first year teaching.  They loved it until it got to the part where the Von Trapp family was trying to escape.  They would tune out, and I would be dealing with restless children who didn't understand the historical context.  They didn't understand the covert conversations the Captain and Maria were having.  They didn't understand why Uncle Max and the Captain were at odds.

But, boy...when I realized that and then started teaching about World War II and the holocaust before I started showing the movie...with just a brief 30 minute introduction...it all shifted.  They started the movie watching for possible covert Nazi's (Ralph, 17 going on 18 is the first they see).  Then, they start to understand how the holocaust could happen...People just ignoring what is going on around them because they thought it didn't affect them.  

I've visited Sachsenhausen.  It was one of the first prototypes of what ultimately became Auschwitz and some of the other camps.

I took the walk from the train through the town to the concentration camp just like the people who were taken there involuntarily.

I heard the stories about how, at first, they just shot people one at a time, and to speed up the killing they started gassing them en masse.  I heard the stories about how they would do experiments, removing parts of people's brains in order to see how it would impact them.  The stories are plenty, and they are horrific.

Teaching this to the students before, during and after they watch this profound important work of art called "The Sound of Music" helps them to understand the fear they see in the movie but are unable to grasp without context.

This activity is more than just putting on a movie musical.  

We are teaching incredibly important things through the movie.

It is for that reason, that I began creating a line of products based on the teaching I did through musical theater and Broadway shows.   Each lesson is filled with tons of activities to expand the learning and understanding, all while studying music.  These are great for general music teachers, choral teachers, and social studies teachers.  

Try out a free version of the unit I created around the musical "Hairspray".  Here is a link to the free version!   Here is the link to "The Sound of Music" unit mentioned above!

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