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  • Artists
    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
      • Artist of the Week - 1st 9-weeks >
        • Monet
        • Artisans of the Ozark Folk Center
        • Renoir
        • Wood
        • Rembrandt
        • O'Keeffe
        • Hokusai
        • da Vinci
        • Durer
        • Bierstadt
        • Adams and National Parks
      • Artist of the Week - 2nd 9-weeks >
        • Raphael
        • Munch
        • Rivera
        • Titian
        • Rockwell
        • El Greco
        • Constable
        • David
        • Christmas art
      • Artist of the Week 3rd 9-weeks >
        • Degas
        • Vermeer
        • Cassatt
        • Turner
        • Homer
        • Whistler
        • Seurat
        • Van Gogh
        • Disney
      • Artist of the Week 4th 9-weeks >
        • Sargent
        • Chagall
        • Kandinsky
        • Picasso
        • Dali
        • Remington
        • Mondrian
        • Pollock
    • YEAR 2 & 4 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Chihuly
        • Moses
        • Durer and Line
        • Matisse and Shape
        • Van Eyck and Texture
        • Velazquez - Space
        • Christy - Constitution Day
        • Monet and Color
        • Rembrandt and Value
        • Art Review- 1st 9-weeks
      • 2nd Nine Weeks Art >
        • da Vinci and Drawing
        • Cassatt and Painting
        • Hokusai and printmaking
        • Picasso and Collage
        • Rivera and murals
        • Michelangelo and sculpture
        • Relief Sculpture
        • Rodin and modern sculpture
        • Schulz and cartooning
        • Van Allsburg and illustration
      • 3rd Nine Weeks Art >
        • Warhol and Pattern
        • Escher and positive negative space
        • Van Gogh and rhythm
        • O'Keeffe and scale/proportion
        • Caravaggio and Emphasis
        • Kandinsky and Variety
        • Cezanne and Balance
        • Art in ancient culture
      • 4th Nine Weeks Art >
        • Bruegel and genre
        • Illuminated manuscripts
        • Adams and photography
        • Wright and architecture
        • Seurat and art displaying
        • Toulouse-Lautrec and graphic art
        • Tiffany and decorative arts
        • Drake and crafts
        • New Media Art
    • Halloween Art
    • Veterans Day & Art
    • Thanksgiving art
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    • Presidents Day Art
  • Musicians
    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Beethoven
        • Tribute to Aretha Franklin
        • Jimmy Driftwood
        • John Phillip Sousa
        • Claude Debussy
        • W. A. Mozart
        • John Williams
        • Idina Menzel
        • Amy Beach
        • Marching Bands
        • Carl Orff
        • William Grant Still
        • Scott Joplin
      • 2nd Nine Weeks >
        • Stephen Foster
        • Andrew Lloyd Webber
        • Johnny Cash
        • Aaron Copland
        • Musical Elements: Rhythm with Infinitus
        • Thanksgiving Music
        • Tchaikovsky
        • Handel
        • Johnny Marks
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • Stephen Sondheim
        • Pentatonix
        • Sergei Prokofiev
        • Elton John
        • Louis Armstrong
        • Glen Campbell
        • Cher
        • The Gershwin Brothers
        • Henry Mancini
        • The British Invasion
        • Woody Guthrie
        • Dr. Seuss Music
        • Alan Menken
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Florence Price
        • Yo-Yo Ma
        • George M. Cohan
        • Rimsky-Korsakov
        • Rodgers & Hammerstein
        • Antonio Vivaldi
        • Albert Ketelbey
        • Bette Midler
        • Gustav Mahler
        • Robert Rodriguez
        • Stevie Wonder
        • Carrie Underwood
        • Keith Urban
    • YEARS 2 & 4 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Elvis Presley
        • Glen Campbell
        • Dolly Parton
        • Beach Boys
        • Richard Wagner
        • John Lennon
        • Camille Saint-Saens
        • Rossini
        • Mark Alan Springer
        • Review Week
        • Bobby McFerrin
        • Randall Standridge
      • 2nd Nine Weeks >
        • Chicago
        • J. S. Bach
        • Banjamin Britten
        • Leonard Bernstein
        • Ella Fitzgerald
        • One Voice Children's Choir
        • Christmas Around the World
        • Jingle Bells
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • Bedrich Smetana
        • Disney Composers
        • Garth Brooks
        • Edgar Varese
        • Joni Mitchell
        • Frederic Chopin
        • Valentine's Day
        • Koji Kondo
        • Philip Glass
        • Lin-Manuel Miranda
        • Review Week
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Marian Anderson
        • Johann Strauss, Jr. >
          • Johann Strauss, Jr.
        • John Denver
        • Moses Hogan
        • Barry Manilow
        • F. J. Haydn
        • Wynton Marsalis
        • Gloria Estefan
        • George Strait
        • Jake Shimabukuro
        • Yanni
  • CHARACTER WORDS
  • School of Innovation!
    • Laying a Foundation
    • Art Music Plan
    • It's OFFICIAL!
    • Rationale
    • Mission & Vision
    • ADE Approved Plan
    • Graphic Plan
    • Implementation Plan
  • Library
  • G./T.
  • National Blue Ribbon School Info
  • Parents' Page
    • Resources for Parents
John Lennon
Patriotic Assembly Song of the Week:

AMERICA
Katharine Lee Bates   1913
Lesson Objectives:  Perceive and analyze artistic work.  Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Frameworks:  R.7.K.2 - 4.2., R.7.K.3 - 4.3.; R.7.5.2 .- 6.2., R.8.K.1 - 4.1
Featured Musician of the Week:

JOHN LENNON
England  1940 - 1980
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MONDAY

Music Listening Example:  "Julia"
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John Lennon was a British singer and songwriter who became famous as a co-founder of the band the Beatles.  He was, and still is, a musical and cultural phenomenon.  

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England during a German air raid in World War II.
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​When he was 4 years old, Lennon’s parents separated and he ended up living with his Aunt Mimi.  Lennon’s father was a merchant seaman.  He was not present at his son’s birth and did not see a lot of his son when he was small.  Lennon’s mother, Julia (pictured on slide), taught Lennon how to play the banjo and the piano.  She also purchased John’s first guitar.  Lennon was devastated when Julia was fatally struck in a car accident in 1958.  Her death was one of the most traumatic events in his life.
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Today’s listening example is a song John wrote about his mother.  This song, titled “Julia”, first appeared on the Beatles “White Album” in 1968.  The Scottish musician, Donovan, said this of helping Lennon write this song:  “He told me he wanted to write a song about his mother. He said, "Donovan, ... I want to write a song about the childhood that I never really had with my mother." He asked me to help him with the images that he could use in lyrics for a song about this subject. So I said, "Well, when you think of the song, where do you imagine yourself?" And John said, "I'm at a beach and I'm holding hands with my mother and we're walking together."  


TUESDAY

Music Listening Example:  "Please Please Me"
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The Quarry Men
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As a child, John Lennon was a prankster and he enjoyed getting into trouble.  Lennon’s school master thought that he could go to an art school instead of college, since he did not get good grades in school, but had artistic talent.
Elvis Presley’s explosion onto the rock music scene inspired a 16-year-old Lennon to create the band called teh Quarry Men, named after his school.  Lennon met Paul McCartney at a church festival on July 6, 1957.  He soon invited McCartney to join the group and the two eventually formed on the most successful songwriting partnerships in musical history.  
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John Lennon and Paul McCartney
The first recording they made was a cover of Buddy Holly’s song “That’ll be the Day” in 1958.  In fact, it was Holly’s group, the Crickets, that inspired the band to change its name from the Quarry Men.  Lennon would later joke that he had a vision when he was 12 years old--a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, “From this day on, you are Beatles with an A.”  (BeAtles not beEtles)
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The Beatles were discovered by Brian Epstein in 1961 at Liverpool’s Cavern Club, where they were performing on a regular basis.  The group released their first single, “Love Me Do,” in October of 1962.  It peaked on the British charts at No. 17.
“Love Me Do” was the Beatles first hit.  It was written by Paul McCartney when he was 16 years old.  John Lennon wrote the next big hit for the Beatles, “Please, Please Me” which was also the title of their first album and today’s listening example.  John Lennon said, "Please Please Me is my song completely. It was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song, would you believe it? I wrote it in the bedroom in my house at Menlove Avenue, which was my auntie's place"


WEDNESDAY

Music Listening Example: "If I Fell" 
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In 1964, the Beatles became the first British band to break out big in the United States, beginning with their appearance on the Ed Sullivan show.  The Beatles launched the period of music known as The British Invasion.
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In June of 1965, Queen Elizabeth II of England announced that the Beatles would be named a Member of the Order of the British Empire.  In August of that year, the foursome performed to 55.600 fans at New York’s Shea Stadium, setting a new record for the largest concert audience in musical history.  
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Beatlemania was everywhere and the fab four was soaking in the fame and glory.  In fact, John Lennon was quoted saying, “We’re more popular than Jesus now.”  This quote made many people angry and led to a boycott (a boycott is when people stop buying, listening to or supporting something or someone) in the US, especially in the deep south.  There was also a wave of record burnings to which Lennon remarked they had to buy the records first in order to burn them. 
Our listening example today is a song titled “If I Fell”.  It first appeared in 1964 on the album “A Hard Day’s Night”.  It was Lennon’s first attempt at writing a ballad, which is a song that tells a story.  The song features two-part harmony, one of the elements of music.  Lennon sings the lower harmony and McCartney sings the melody.  The harmony, and interesting melody, make this a beautiful song to listen to.

THURSDAY

Music Listening Example:  "Across the Universe"
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​In 1968, the Beatles were starting to feel the stress of losing their fame.  They decided to take a trip to India.  In India they studied meditation and eastern religions.  They spent several weeks in the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.  An ashram is a religious retreat or community where people go to learn to meditate.  
​In India they composed music for their albums The Beatles and Abbey Road.  The visit also inspired John to add more Eastern musical influences to the music he wrote.  
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One night in 1967, the phrase "words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup" came to Lennon’s mind and kept playing over and over again.  Later than night, he couldn’t sleep because of the words, so he got up and wrote today’s listening example, “Across the Universe.”  In the song, you will hear the words  "Jai guru deva om".  These words are a mantra that Lennon would repeat while meditating.  This phrase is in the ancient language of Sanskrit and can mean many things, but, in general mean “Victory to God divine.”  In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, Lennon referred to the song as perhaps the best, most poetic lyric he ever wrote.

FRIDAY

Music Listening Example:  "Imagine"
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In 1970 the Beatles disbanded, and members of the group began careers as solo recording artists.  John Lennon produced several albums with his wife, Yoko Ono.  "Imagine" is a song written and performed by Lennon from an album of the same name.   It was the best selling single song of his career as a solo artist.
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Lennon was a strong advocate of world peace.  The lyrics of his famous song encourage the listener to imagine a world at peace. 
"Imagine" has been one of the most-performed songs of the 20th century.  Dozens of artists have performed or recorded versions it, including Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Pentatonix, Elton John, and the cast of Glee.
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John Lennon died in 1980 at the age of 40 when he was shot outside his home in Manhattan, New York by Mark David Chapman, a 25-year old security guard from Honolulu, Hawaii.  Lennon had earlier autographed an album for Chapman.  The news of Lennon's death was announced by sports broadcaster Howard Cosell during the fourth quarter of a Monday night televised football game between the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins.  Today's listening example is John Lennon's most famous song, "Imagine."

John Lennon References

https://beatlesdaily.com/2016/09/23/john-lennon-childhood-photoss/nggallery/page/3

www.biography.com/people/john-lennon-9379045

http://www.newsweek.com/how-john-lennon-buried-his-mother-song-226596


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