We've just finished a three week unit on classical music composers from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic music eras. It was unusual for us in that we didn't really chop and change our learning styles as we went along. Normally our units will include some interactive work, creative work, reading, writing, making, cooking, field trips etc.
But this unit focused mostly on one composer a day, where we listened to some of their work (they were all male!) and created a page or two in a scrap book about their lives, work and how they interacted or otherwise with other composers.
We did make some tiny musical instruments out of Lego though!
Here's our list of composers:
Vivaldi
Handel
J. S. Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Mendelssohn
Chopin
Liszt
Strauss Jnr.
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
... and Debussy, who took us firmly into the 20th Century.
