My New EXPANDED Google Slides Sound of Music Giveaway

You can enter this giveaway until Sunday, August 25, 2024 at 11:59 PM at the bottom of this blog post by answering two poll questions.

This is the newest version of This Sound of Music Unit, and it includes more activities than my original version that can make it last up to three weeks. Created July 2024. The original was created in August 2023. Here is the link to the original version which does NOT include the extra 8 creative extension activities (extra quiz, creative writing, debates, character diaries, research project ideas and more).

The deck has 5 slides, but it has links to YouTube videos to help you and a link to 27 pages of questions, quizzes and creative extension activities.

This unit will work best with mature 10-year-olds and up to age 15 who are in social studies and music classes and middle school choir. You will get a word find, a 60-question viewer's guide for students with a teacher answer key, two 10 question quizzes with answer key, and a discussion guide that will help you link the events of the movie to real world history. This unit will guide you in discussions about the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, the Anschluss, Nazi's and how it relates to the dramatization of the Von Trapp's real-life experience during that time. Your students will enjoy watching one of the greatest movie musicals of all time while learning about one of the darkest times in World History. You will also get 8 creative extension activities that can make this unit last up to 3 weeks.

I showed the movie every year to my 5th and 6th graders during my 30 years teaching public school, and I led these discussions with them after realizing many of the students didn't understand why the family was hiding after the Captain avoided working with the Third Reich. Even if your students have seen the movie before, this unit will give the students a greater appreciation for it, and it will help them want to dig deeper. Side note- I took the Sound of Music tour in Salzburg, and while visiting the region, I visited the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.

You will start with a word find that leads to a discussion before you begin watching the movie. Your students will use the 60-question viewer guide as they watch. During the days you watch, you will end with a discussion about the movie plot and relate the characters to real life events from that time period. You will administer two quizzes during the time of the unit. At the end of the unit, you can choose to watch the Oprah Winfrey interview with the actors in which they tell fun stories about the filming process and what that was like. You will also get links to reliable sites with other information about the Holocaust and the real Von Trapp Family.

If you have a deep interest this period of history and want to teach your students about more than the surface value of this musical movie, this will be a great unit for you to use with your students!

If you want to save $ and buy a bundle that includes Newsies, Annie and Sound of Music, you'll get a full nine-weeks of creative ideas that teach music AND history!

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