HEET Community of Schools
CALIFORNIA
The team of educators from HEET Community of Schools in LAUSD created a unit to introduce students to the roots of American music through the study of music traditions that enslaved people carried to the colonies from Africa. This middle-grade unit can be approached in an interdisciplinary way combining both music and English Language Arts.
CURRICULAR RESOURCES
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Units
Rooted in Song
Students use reading and literacy skills to examine the lasting influence of the musical traditions of enslaved people on American music today.
