Origins of Jazz

Text features can help readers identify the ______, which

is the subject of the passage. What is the topic of this

passage?

Text features can help readers identify the topic, which

is the subject of the passage. What is the topic of this

passage?

• The Answer

• Bugga, Bugga, Bugga

• Jazz Music

• Nunyabizzness

One of our standards today is, ELAGSE6RI2:

Determine a central idea of a text

and how it is conveyed through particular details;

provide a summary of the text distinct from

personal opinions or judgments.

Which of the following is an appropriate learning target for this standard?

• Use text features to preview the text.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the text by asking and answering questions and

  referring to key details in the text.

• Use the famous "WAG" method for answering questions.

• Read an informational text.

Jazz began with a “recipe” that had many different ingredients. Different

groups of people, including ______and ______, were part of the recipe.

Different kinds of music, including the blues and ragtime, were also a part of the

recipe. All of these ingredients combined to make America’s own music, jazz.

• Donald Trump and Arnold the Pig

• Americans and Africans

• Scottish and English

• Africans and Europeans

Church music was important to jazz. African Americans made new kinds

of religious music. They formed their own churches and rewrote the old songs

to express their faith. They changed the words, the beat, and the tune. They

used the African “___ and ____” when they sang. This music became an

ingredient in the jazz recipe.

• Call and Response

• Hip and Hop

• Yell and Sell

• Swing and Miss

Music of immigrant Americans added to jazz. The ____ had ballads.

Ballads tell stories of _____and their bravery, and these stories are often sad.

The song is usually simple. In a ballad, the story is often more important than

the music. Ballads became another ingredient in the jazz recipe.

In the early days of America, ballroom dance music provided popular

entertainment. They were big social events. There was a demand for musicians to play at the dances. Many

____learned how to play fiddles and flutes. African Americans invented the

____and played it too. Black musicians learned the dance songs and changed

them. African and European music combined to make dance music. This music

became another ingredient in the jazz recipe.

• wives, spoons

• slaves, banjo

• farmers, banjo

• people, drums

Which of the following is not an ingredients of early Jazz music?

• blues

• ragtime

• ballroom dance

• ballads

• country

In the early days of America, ballroom dance music provided popular

entertainment. In the South, dances were held on ____.

• plantations

• battlefields

• roof tops

• election day

Music of immigrant Americans added to jazz. The Scotch-Irish had ballads.

Ballads tell stories of heroes and their ___, and these stories are often ___.

The song is usually simple. In a ballad, the story is often more important than

the music. Ballads became another ingredient in the jazz recipe.

• brothers, sad

• fears, wild

• deaths, thrilling

• bravery, sad