An Irish Hooley
Grades K-12
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day! Celebrate Irish culture with music, song, dance and irresistible merriment from the Emerald Isle. Some of the world’s greatest writers, poets, musicians and artists have come from Ireland. An Irish Hooley—meaning “boisterous party”—illustrates this incredible inheritance with fiddles, uilleann pipes, whistles, flutes, Irish harp, bodhráns, storytelling, singing and the brilliance of Irish dance.
California Content Standards easily applied in your classroom:
- K-5.HI.CH.3: Students explain how the present is connected to the past, identifying both similarities and differences between the two, and how some things change over time and some things stay the same.
- K-12.AR.DA.3.0: Students analyze the function and development of dance in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting human diversity as it relates to dance and dancers.
- K-12.AR.MU.3.0: Understanding the historical contributions and cultural dimensions of music.
LESSON PLAN IDEA: Students create a collage representing topics of Ireland (e.g. geography, climate, clothes, food) to present to the class.
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