Extension Activity: "Built My Lady a Fine Brick House" (this lesson would be used to reemphasize AB form, if necessary)

Objectives:

1. To perceive contrasting sections in two-part form. (25.A.1c)

2. To show contrasting sections through dancing. (27.A.1b)

Classroom Material:

Vocabulary:

Time:

One, thirty minute music class

Instructional Procedure:

1. Tell the children they are going to learn a new folk song from Texas. Ask them to copy your motions. Warn them that you are going to change your motions part way through and that they should change with you.

2. Play the song and maintain the beat in your lap during the A section, switching to a clap on the B section.

3. Have the children look at the music to see if they can tell where and why you changed motions. (You changed at letter B because the music changed.)

4. All sing the song, keeping the steady beat. Choose your own motion for each section.

5. Perform a dance while singing, "Built My Lady a Fine Brick House".

Directions for Dance:

Formation: A circle, with each child next to a chosen partner. All face the center, with hands joined.
Section A
Phrase 1: Walk 4 steps in, toward the center, in time with the steady beat.
Phrase 2: Walk 4 steps out, away from the center.
Phrase 3: Jump on the first beat of each measure as follows: into the circle on the word put , out on she.
Phrase 4: Repeat the motions for phrase 3, jumping in on fare, and out on
dar-.
Section B

Partners link right elbows and skip in a circle in place through the section.

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Submitted: July 1, 1998