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TEACHER’S GUIDE 1 TO THE 2 COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME® AND MUSEUM Teacher’s Guide to the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum 1 This teacher’s guide includes classroom lessons and can be used as interdisciplinary teaching designed to assist teachers in preparing their tools. All Language Arts standards apply to students for a visit to the Country Music Hall of grades K-12, though word choice may vary Fame and Museum. A poster, glossary, worksheets, slightly. Teacher Tips, included in most of the lyric sheets, and a CD are included and accompany lessons, provide more detailed instructions or specific lessons in this guide. The lessons engage suggestions for ways teachers can adapt lessons students and teachers in listening, observing, to the particular needs and interests of their writing, and discussing the characteristics of students. Because museums are special places museums, the history of country music, country containing valuable and delicate objects, a songs, and the people who have contributed to discussion about appropriate museum behavior the country music story. These lessons are prior to your visit may be helpful. complemented by a tour of the museum’s exhibits. The museum provides workshops for teachers They address specific curriculum objectives in several times a year. For workshop dates and language arts, music, social studies, and visual times and to learn more about our programs art for grades K-12. All curricular connections for teachers and students, please visit our Web site: are based on Tennessee State Curriculum Standards www.CountryMusicHallofFame.org. COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME® AND MUSEUM TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 1 LESSON ONE: What’s a Museum? 3 LESSON TWO: The Country Music Hall of Fame 6 LESSON THREE: Country Music Yesterday and Today 9 LESSON FOUR: Who Creates Country Music? 12 LESSON FIVE: Image of a Performer 18 2 LESSON SIX: The Sources of Country Music 23 LESSON SEVEN: Styles of Country Music 25 LESSON EIGHT: Post-Visit Reflection 30 GLOSSARY 36 LYRIC SHEETS 38 HELPFUL RESOURCES 51 TEACHER’S EVALUATION 52 Buck Owens’s guitar Teacher’s Guide COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME® AND MUSEUM 1| What’s a Museum? 1. Share the following with students. The Country Music Hall of Fame is both a museum TENNESSEE STATE CURRICULUM STANDARDS: and a hall of fame. Let’s first learn a little bit about Language Arts: what makes it a museum. 1. Language 2. Use the following questions to GLE Demonstrate knowledge of strategies and resources to determine the definition, pronunciation, engage students in a discussion and usage of words and phrases. about museums. 2. Communication Record students’ answers. Their responses will be GLE used later in a comparing-and-contrasting activity. • Continue to develop basic listening skills necessary for communication. • Have you ever been to a museum? • Continuetodevelopbasicspeakingskills Which one(s)? necessary for communication • What did you see there? Checks for Understanding: • Demonstratetheabilitytofolloworaldirections • What did you do there? up to three steps. • What do you like best about visiting museums? • Participateingroupdiscussions. • What types of museums are there (art, 3. Writing aquariums, botanical gardens, history, zoos)? Checks for Understanding: Construct graphic organizers to group ideas for writing • Why do you think they are all considered (e.g. webs, charts, graphs, diagrams, illustrations). museums? (They all exhibit specific objects, 5. Logic living or non-living.) Checks for Understanding: Compare and contrast two characters, ideas, 3. Create a bulletin board in your or stories. class about your study of museums. Social Studies: 3 2.0 Globalization of the economy, the explosion Post student work from this lesson, museum of population growth, technological changes, brochures, and photos from their favorite and international competition compel students museums. to understand, both personally and globally, the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Students will examine and analyze 4. Discuss and share the following economic concepts such as basic needs versus with students. wants, using versus saving money, and policy making versus decision making: 2.1, (6-8), 2.03 (K-5) What types of objects have you seen in museums? 6.0Personaldevelopmentandidentityareshaped History-related museums like the Country Music by factors including culture, groups, and institutions. Central to this development are exploration, identifica- Hall of Fame and Museum contain artifacts. An tion, and analysis of how individuals and groups work artifact is an object made or used by people in the independently and cooperatively: 6.01 (K-8) past. Some artifacts tell us about how people lived Learning Objectives: long ago, and others are ordinary objects that once 1. Students will compare and contrast a museum belonged to important people. Museums such as and a shopping mall to understand the distinctive zoos and botanical gardens collect and preserve characteristics of museums. living objects (animals and plants). 2. Students will role-play to understand various jobs involved in museum work. 5. As a class, generate a list of common characteristics of Prep Time: None a museum. Materials: White board or easel paper, Internet This will determine students’ initial understanding. access, paper, pencil, poster, bulletin board Use questions and student responses from #2 to Vocabulary: Architecture, artifact, curator, donor, help create this list. exhibit designer, grant, hall of fame, museum Teacher’s Guide COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME® AND MUSEUM 6. After students have generated TEACHER TIP: this list, share this definition of a If students need a reminder of the concepts of museum: comparing and contrasting, use the following questions A museum is an institution, open to the public, to engage them in a discussion. You can also use terms like “alike” and “different.” What does it mean which collects, cares for, and exhibits objects for to compare and contrast? What are the advantages of the purpose of study, education, and enjoyment. comparing and contrasting two different things? What (adapted from International Council of Museums) can you gain by doing this? 7. Ask students to compare their characteristics of a museum with 10. Ask students to share their the definition provided. findings with the class. 8. Ask students to use a Venn What distinguishes museums from other places? In diagram to compare and contrast what ways are they like other public places? a museum with a shopping mall. They can do this as a class or in 11. Share the following with small groups. students. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum collects, stores, and cares for many historical photographs, musical instruments, stage costumes, and sound recordings that tell the story of country music. They are organized in exhibits with labels next to them that explain their importance to country music history. 4 12. Discuss together. Ask students to think about the various jobs involved in operating a museum. Some of the main TEACHER TIP: jobs involved in the daily work of a museum are as If students work in small groups, you can ask follows: each group to compare a museum to a different Directors: Museum directors oversee all aspects of venue, like an amusement park, restaurant, arena, the museum and are responsible for the museum’s or symphony hall. overall financial status and cultural value to the community it serves. Directors usually work closely 9. Use the following questions to with a board of directors and report to that group. engage students in a discussion. They often speak in public about their museum and • Who visits each place? its importance to the community. • What do people see there? Curators: Museum curators are responsible for caring • What do people do there? for the objects in a museum’s collection or on • What does each place look like? Is there anything loan to a museum. They are knowledgeable about special about the building design? each object and ensure its preservation. Curators • What is the purpose of each place? develop collections policies that state what types of • What kinds of jobs do people have at each place? objects the museum collects, how to care for and store the objects, and how to return objects that are no longer necessary for the collection. Teacher’s Guide COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME® AND MUSEUM Educators: Museum educators develop and conduct • Educators: How might you relate one of your educational programs that focus on the museum’s current exhibitions to things that children are exhibits and that connect to people’s everyday lives. interested in? What related hands-on activities Exhibit Designers: Museum exhibit designers develop would you use to engage children in learning? exhibits that present the museum’s collection • ExhibitDesigners: How might you display a to the public. These exhibits help people better particular object so that children would be understand the museum’s main purpose and the interested in learning more about it? story of the objects in its collection. They work • DevelopmentOfficers: How might you encourage a closely with museum curators. potential funder to give money to your museum? Development Officers: Since most museums are not for profit, a museum’s development staff members seek TEACHER TIP: Many museums have a restaurant and souvenir shop. funding through grants, sponsors, and donors to There are many jobs involved in operating these areas, support the operations of the museum. too. Students may mention this. 13. Divide students into five small groups representing each of the five 14. Each group should present their museum jobs listed. ideas to the class. Encourage them to choose a museum from the 15. Discuss the museum’s following list and answer the following questions architecture with students. about the specific job in that museum.