This entertaining and engaging interactive SMART NOTEBOOK lesson (appropriate for grades 4-8) takes elementary music students on a journey through African-American Music and Culture. The journey begins during the Civil War era and continues up through the mid 1900's Jazz era. This particular file is Part 1 of a 3 Part unit. Parts 2 and 3 are also sold as separate files in my TpT store. Genres explored and studied in this unit (Part 1, 2, 3 combined) are as follows:
Introduction to the Unit