Bessie Smith & the Classic 12-Bar Blues Interactive PowerPoint
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This bundle of Interactive PowerPoints will take you and your students through music and music history activities that cover early jazz and blues from the 1910s through the 1920s. Standards Aligned: National Core Arts Standards for General MusicTermsMU:Re8.1.3 a Demonstrate and describe how the expPrice $14.00Original Price $17.75Save $3.75
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This Interactive PowerPoint show can be the basis for a unit on the classic 12-bar blues genre or a great addition to an American music unit. Slides contain facts and links to YouTube videos about Bessie Smith, characteristics of the classic blues genre, 12-bar blues structure, sing the chord roots, write your own blues, and 4 quick quiz questions useful for exit tickets.
✅ Your students will be engaged in Bessie Smith's story. They will love singing along with chord roots and writing their own blues verses!
Update: Now includes a 10-question EASEL ASSESSMENT that incorporates the quick quiz questions.
✅ YOU will love the embedded quick quiz questions and the final Easel Assessment that will provide you with a self-graded report on your students' learning.
Also included is a song lyrics PowerPoint for Backwater Blues, and a student blues writing worksheet.
Please check out the other titles in this series:
Louis Armstrong New Orleans Jazz PowerPoint
Harlem Renaissance Musicians-Duke Ellington and Bennie Goodman
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TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Leah C. says: I did this with 5th grade when we learned about the Blues chord progression. This slideshow is concise and accurate and even provides an exit ticket at the end! LOVE it! :)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alyssa W. says: Extremely satisfied. Super helpful for an introduction to Blues.
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