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Canadian history song pdfs
Terry Fox
This storybook / reader and song with no-prep activities for kindergarten and primary students make Terry Fox even more memorable in preparation for your annual walk or run event. Touching assembly song is easy to teach young students with its simple melody. Students echo the teacher the first few times singing it, then they've got it! ♫ ♬ To hear my ☺kindergarten students ☺ sing the first half of the song, simply play the preview video with your volume turned up! ♫♬The story of Terry Fox and h
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K - 3rd, Staff
Also included in: Canada Early Literacy Activities
Remembrance Day Activities for Canadian Classrooms
Remembrance Day is such an important day that does not get the attention it deserves. This unit will help you connect your students to Remembrance Day through songs, video, poems, and writing activities - using Canadian recording artists to discuss the importance of respecting the 2 minutes of silence on November 11, and the significance of the Highway of Heroes. It can easily be connected to your English, Social Studies, or Ethics classes.
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* Youtube link to Terry Kelly’s
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3rd - 4th
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Huron Carol Orff Arrangement in Aeolian Mode
Considered Canada's first Christmas Carol, the melody of the Huron Carol is an excellent piece for introducing or reviewing aeolian mode on barred Orff instruments and for discussing early Canadian music and early Canadians. The melody can be easily sung or performed on a soprano/tenor recorder. The piece lends itself well to creative movement. Note that the title of the score says La Pentatonic. The music is not Pentatonic but can be adapted. The music is in the aeolian mode in the elementa
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3rd - 8th
O CANADA Easy Tone Chimes & Bells Arrangement
***$3.00***THIS PRODUCT HAS RECENTLY BEEN UPDATED. It reflects the change in lyrics. Also, the musical arrangement has been updated.This product includes the following materials:• Lesson Plan, Objectives, Procedures• Musical arrangement used for this piece• Sheet with lyrics and rhythms• Individual printable sheets for each assigned chime or bell (G4-Eb6)Age Appropriate for:• Upper elementary• Middle School• High School• AdultThis product uses a “non-music reading” approach. While it could be us
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Lots O’ Fish in Bonavist’ Harbour (Unison/2-Part Mixed Voices & Tambourine
This rollicking Newfoundland Folk song, also known as "Feller from Fortune," is a song about fishermen from all over the world gathering at Cape Bonavista to fish and have fun! Unison/2-Part Mixed Voices Great for upper elementary & middle school singers Easy Harmony Tambourine cues in score Intermediate piano accompaniment Chords added for guitar, ukulele, banjo, or other instruments. Piano Accompaniment track available on this site.
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2nd - 8th
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Les Raftsmen (Unison/2-Part with Tambourine & Banjo)
This 19th century French Canadian Folk song describes the raftsmen, or loggers as they made their way through Bytown to Ottawa with their lunches on their backs. Even though life was hard, they still found time to sing and dance in the backwoods. Unison or optional EASY 2-part harmony For upper elementary or older singers French language Multiple time signatures/16th notes Accents Key changes Tambourine cues included in score Chords added for banjo, guitar, or ukulelePiano Accompaniment Track av
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3rd - 12th
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La Bastringue (Unison/2-Part with Hand Claps)
"La Bastringue" (French for "dance hall") is an old French tune from the 17th century. In French Canada the tune became a "party song" which tells of an older man who asks a younger girl to dance the fast-paced "La Bastringue." He found he was too old to keep up with her and gave up! Unison or very easy 2-Part Great first French language song For late elementary or middle school singers Great for teaching 16th notes Hand claps (cues in score) Piano Accompaniment Track available on this site.
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3rd - 12th
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Including Chinese Railroad Workers in Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy
A cross curricular music and history lesson to help students understand the contributions of Chinese railroad workers to the building of the trans-Canada railroad. After watching Gordon Lightfoot's CBC performance of his song, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, groups of students will contribute two new verses to more accurately reflect the full story of the railroad as a nation building endeavour.
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7th - 10th
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I's the B'y Orff Arrangement using I, IV, and V Chords
This is the traditional Newfoundland song "I's the B'y" arranged for Orff Instruments. Contains the words to the first verse and the refrain. This is a simple arrangement in F Major that requires the B-flat bars to be used. My arrangement. The Alto Xylophone part could also be played on soprano recorder.
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3rd - 9th
Canadian History Song - Never Let It Be (Winnipeg General Strike)
This resource includes the link to the primary source song, song lyrics, and classroom activities to think critically about the Winnipeg General Strike and the events that happened on "Bloody Saturday", June 21, 1919.The worksheet is divided into questions that can support classroom activities using the song as the foundation for critical thinking about this topic in Canadian history:Understanding ContextIntroducing Concepts (vocabulary that is connected to the topic)Interpreting and Analyzing t
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Canadian History Song - Organise! (Union Labour History)
This resource includes the link to the primary source song, song lyrics, and classroom activities to think critically about the struggle for union recognition to help support working conditions in Canada.The worksheet is divided into questions that can support classroom activities using the song as the foundation for critical thinking about this topic in Canadian history:Understanding ContextIntroducing Concepts (vocabulary that is connected to the topic)Interpreting and Analyzing the LyricsBuil
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Canadian History Song-September 12th, 1759 (The Battle of the Plains of Abraham)
This resources includes the link to the primary source song, song lyrics, and classroom activities to think critically about the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and its impact on the colonization of Canada.The worksheet is divided into questions that can support classroom activities using the song as the foundation for critical thinking about this topic in Canadian history:Understanding ContextIntroducing Concepts (vocabulary that is connected to the topic)Interpreting and Analyzing the LyricsBu
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Canadian History Song - Love and Oaths (Acadian Expulsion, Acadia)
This resource includes the link to the primary source song, song lyrics, and classroom activities to think critically about the love of a couple separated by the deportation of the Acadians. The songwrite and author connects this song to the experiences of minority peoples who have immigrated to Canada. The song connects to minority peoples in Canada and their historical experiences as immigrants in colonized Canada (such as the Doukhobors).The worksheet is divided into questions that can suppor
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Not Grade Specific
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Canadian History Song - What Are We Living For? (Vietnam War)
This resources includes the link to the primary source song, song lyrics, and classroom activities to think critically about the reaction to the Vietnam War and the rise of social consciousness and change, as well as the influence of American politics on Canada's social landscape.The worksheet is divided into questions that can support classroom activities using the song as the foundation for critical thinking about this topic in Canadian history:Understanding ContextIntroducing Concepts (vocabu
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6th - 12th
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"Land of the Silver Birch"
Counting beat divisions and rhythm in 2/2 (cut time) with syncopation, a minor tonality with descending tonic/one and submediant/6th arpeggios. Grade: Fifth Origin: Canada - Folk Song Key: D minor (pitched in F Major) Time: 2/2 - cut time (4/4 also shown) Form: phrases: ABbCD - song: AB, verse/refrain Rhythm: intermediate: 2/2 : | ta ti ti | ti ti ta | ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ri ti ti | ta/a | ta ta | Pitches: beginners: la do re mi so la - the pitches of the pentatonic scale Inter
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5th - 6th
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"O Canada!" Canadian National Anthem
Natural (raised) subdominant (fi) and dominant (si). Grade: Fifth Origin: Canada - National Anthem; music: Calixa Lavallée - 1880 words: Robert Stanley Weir - 1908, revised 1980 Key: E Flat Major Time: 4/4 Form: through composed Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/a ta/ ti | ta/a/a ta | ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a ti/ ri | ta/ ti ta ti/ ri | ta/ ti ta ta | ta ta ti ti ti ti | ta/ a ta/a | Pitches: intermediate: ti do re mi fa fi so si la ti do - natural (raised) subdominant (fi), raised dominant (si)
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5th - 7th
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Canadian History Song - The Devil's Son (Mad Trapper of Rat River)
This resources includes the link to the primary source song, song lyrics, and classroom activities to think critically about the story of the "Mad Trapper of Rat River", fur trade trapper, Albert Johnson. This is a song that tells a story and can be connected to the First People's Principles of Learning that "learning is embedded in memory, history and story".The worksheet is divided into questions that can support classroom activities using the song as the foundation for critical thinking about
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6th - 12th
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Canadian History Song - Dad in the Depression
This resource includes the link to the primary source song, song lyrics, and classroom activities to think critically about the story of my Dad, an immigrant to Canada in the early twentieth century, and his experiences as a young man during the Great Depression. This is a song that tells my father's story and can be connected to the First People's Principles of Learning that "learning is embedded in memory, history and story". This song is a tribute to his history.The worksheet is divided into
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Not Grade Specific
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Vietnam War Historical Song Analysis
This activity allows students to gain a deeper understanding of how the Vietnam War shaped North American culture during the 1960s and 1970s. A handout, assignment rubric, and a list of some possible song choices are included.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Canadian History Song - Ginger Goodwin (BC Labour movement)
This resource includes the link to the primary source song, song lyrics, and classroom activities to think critically about the story of draft dodger Ginger Goodwin who was an active labour leader in the Kootenay region in the early 1900s.The worksheet is divided into questions that can support classroom activities using the song as the foundation for critical thinking about this topic in Canadian history:Understanding ContextIntroducing Concepts (vocabulary that is connected to the topic)Interp
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Not Grade Specific
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Canadian History Song - Louis Riel
This resource includes the link to the primary source song, song lyrics, and classroom activities to think critically about the story of Louis Riel and the Red River Rebellion. The worksheet is divided into questions that can support classroom activities using the song as the foundation for critical thinking about this topic in Canadian history:Understanding ContextIntroducing Concepts (vocabulary that is connected to the topic)Interpreting and Analyzing the LyricsBuilding Perspectives (includes
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Not Grade Specific
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Junior 4-6 Music - FREE Song & Arrangement - Hear My Voice
Created by a seasoned music teacher, Hear My Voice is a moving Indigenous-inspired Orff Arrangement & lesson sequence for Junior grades (4-6) that is engaging, musically satisfying, and challenging. The Orff arrangement and activity enhances ensemble playing, creativity, and musical understanding including triplets, chord change, a variety of other rhythms, and includes composition/improvisation for final performance. This activity can also be connected directly to the Language Arts curricu
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4th - 8th
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Canadian History Song - Terry Fox (Definition of a Hero)
This resources includes the link to the primary source song, song lyrics, and classroom activities to think critically about the definition of a hero. This song honours Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope. The worksheet is divided into questions that can support classroom activities using the song as the foundation for critical thinking about this topic in Canadian history:Understanding ContextIntroducing Concepts (vocabulary that is connected to the topic)Interpreting and Analyzing the LyricsBui
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Not Grade Specific
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La Musique du Québec
Student describe a beautiful illustration of Quebecois musicians in French. Students build simple sentences about the characters and the instruments they are playing.
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4th - 8th
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