Module Four: Music and Art
This module will help to learn to read different levels of texts related to dance, music, culinary, decorative, and performing arts. Basic vocabulary and specific terminology will be learned though interactive lessons.
Target Standards
Communication: Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions. Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics. Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Cultures: Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied. Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
Connections: Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.
Comparisons: Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own. Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Communities: Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting. Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.
Cultures: Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied. Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
Connections: Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.
Comparisons: Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own. Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Communities: Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting. Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.
Set Goals and Objectives
Eric likes Uzbek songs. He is doing research on the Uzbek national songs. Veronica is learning Uzbek dances.She wants to read articles about the Uzbek dances. Her friend William likes the Uzbek cuisine very much. He wants to cook pilav and kebab.
- Famous People of Uzbekistan
- Uzbek Cinema
- Uzbek Cuisine
- Uzbek Pop Culture
- History of the Uzbek Dance
Expand Your Knowledge
Broughton, Simon; Razia Sultanova (2000). "Bards of the Golden Road". In Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, James McConnachie, and Orla Duane. World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific. Penguin Books. pp. 24–31.
Levin, Theodore (1997). The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York. Indiana University Press.
Matyakubov, O. "A Traditional Musician in Modern Society: A Case Study of Turgun Alimatov's Art". Yearbook for Traditional Music 25 (1993), pp. 60-66.
Sultanova, Razia. From Shamanism to Sufism: Women, Islam and Culture in Central Asia (International Library of Central Asia Studies). 2011.
Sultanova, Razia. Sacred Knowledge: Schools or revelation?: Master-Apprentice System of Oral Transmission in the music of the Turkic Speaking world. 2009.
Levin, Theodore (1997). The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York. Indiana University Press.
Matyakubov, O. "A Traditional Musician in Modern Society: A Case Study of Turgun Alimatov's Art". Yearbook for Traditional Music 25 (1993), pp. 60-66.
Sultanova, Razia. From Shamanism to Sufism: Women, Islam and Culture in Central Asia (International Library of Central Asia Studies). 2011.
Sultanova, Razia. Sacred Knowledge: Schools or revelation?: Master-Apprentice System of Oral Transmission in the music of the Turkic Speaking world. 2009.