Self

Other

Medium

Go-go: The Heartbeat
of 
Washington, DC

6-8

To build; to bring elements together - When students enter the middle grades, they are becoming concrete thinkers, eager to acquire new skills and define their place as individuals. The CONSTRUCT cycle focuses arts learning on investigations how we build ourselves and our environment and the role that individuals play in the process.

Mixed Media

Song Explorer

Concept: Digital audio workstation, mixing forms of media

Concept: Culture, ethnomusicology, composition

Process

Alternative 
Sound Production

Structure

Product

Deconstruction of
Composition &
Arrangement

DC Keys
Cover Song Project

Composition & 
Improvisation

Concept: Nontraditional instruments, composition

Concept: Improvisation

Concept: Arranging, performance, evaluation

Concept: Self-evaluation