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Ethnomusicology Museum – 30 Task Cards – Each One Essentially a Lesson Plan…

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

  Classroom Museum Marc Frucht   Task Card 1       Enrichment: Make an ocarina out of clay. Several webpages and youtubes give instructions how. http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-A-Clay-Ocarina http://www.fl-oca.com/eng/egm.htm You’ll just need non-toxic clay, paper to put down for neatness and something pointy to make holes with. As you’re embellishing it you could refer to the […]

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Happy Thanksgiving/ThanksTaking, Everyone.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving/ThanksTaking everyone. Here’s another musical memory to share. Sometime around 2006 I co wrote the following song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM8p61y7ARU It was the weekend before Thanksgiving I remember that. I was on a bus returning from Phenix City Alabama to Green Bay Wisconsin and a friend of mine, John Heckenlively counted 22 Wafflehouses that we drove […]

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Music Hits All 9 of Howard Gardner’s Intelligences?

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

So this one’s for Cathy McGriff: Just How Does Music Hit All 8 of the Other Gardner Intelligences? 1. Naturalist: sensitivity to natural world features. 3. Logical-Mathematical: 32nd? 64th? 128th note. Think about the 8-bit computer chip! 4. Existential: Why are we… how’d we get here? Synthesizing idioms, metaphor, myth. 5. Interpersonal: Plays well with […]

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Follow The Drinking Gourd – Lesson Plan – Marc Frucht

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Follow The Drinking Gourd – An Integrated Inquiry Based Social Studies Lesson by Marc Frucht Content Standards: INQ 3–5.4 Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration the different opinions people have about how to answer the questions. INQ 3–5.5 Gather relevant information from multiple […]

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Getting Kids to Love Love Love Reading!

Monday, May 18, 2015

How Do We Go Beyond Instilling a Love of Reading toward Sustaining It as a Habit for the Lifelong Learner? by Marc Frucht   “Kids will learn reading skills in school, but often they come to associate reading with work, not pleasure.  As a result, they lose their desire to read. And it is that […]

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Asking To Learn Then Learning So Much More!

Friday, February 20, 2015

Asking To Learn Then Learning So Much More!   An old blog note I found in google cache. I don’t want this one to ever disappear and it looks like a database went away where this entry used to sit. Bummer. Monday, 12 August 2013 The most serendipitous kismet I’ve had this side of the Millenium […]

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New London’s 5th Annual Youth Talent Show Is Going To Be Sooooo Awesome!

Saturday, December 20, 2014

This just in from The New London Youth Talent Show ***BREAKING NEWS*** The results are in. Thank you all! It was tough, but the search is over. We are excited for this year and promise an EPIC showcase! Be sure to tell your friends and family! Bring joy this Holiday season. Tickets go on sale […]

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The Boy Who Said, “Monk.”

Sunday, November 23, 2014

The Boy Who Said “Monk!”   A Connecticut K-5 school. I’m on a three-day assignment in Special Ed. Several one-on-ones with students who have a schedule of tiered RTI pull-outs from their regular classes. A little pre-schooler I won’t name of course comes every day for a morning hour and an additional afternoon on Fridays. […]

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JOURNAL POEM 24 – Poems For Roberta Blackgoat

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Cappuccino. Monkey and Bull make meal of Pomegranite, potatoes, pineapple & peppers. LL Zamenhof worked Pepsi’s graveyard Shift til the day he died. Poetic. Death not for lack of irony. For growing calamity, asks Esperanza, Does one need fertilizer? Removes tongue from cheek. 1477. Chris visits Iceland inquiring As a wannabe Portugese picking up Waterfront […]

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ANNOTATIONS: Marc Frucht’s American Songbag.

Friday, July 4, 2014

Here goes some “explication” about the two newest recordings I’ve mastered and edited up. Enjoy. Recorded live from the soundboard at a Bonfire in Groton, CT. I noticed while I was organizing these tunes that it kind of serves as the best kind of ethnomusicology lesson you could ever receive for free. Pro Bono, my […]

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