Story Pirates University: Perspective Song with Pitch
3 min3rd4th5thMusicReading & Writing (ELA)
Summary
A short song-writing lesson from Story Pirates University, the storytelling program run by the Story Pirates comedy troupe. This lesson writes a song from one character's point of view, using high and low pitch to color how they see things. A Story Pirates professor sings it through, then hands it off for students to try their own.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Songs help characters share what they want and feel.
- What did the character in the song want?
- How did the music — loud or soft, high or low — match the feeling?
- What would your character sing about?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: lyrics, melody, pitch, dynamics (loud and soft), 'I want' song.
Try it: Make up two lines of a song for a character you invent. Sing it once loud and once soft, and notice how the feeling changes.