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Franklin Music

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2011 2012 Highlights Eleven Franklin music ensembles performed

at the MICCA Festival and all received

medals. The Combined Middle School

Orchestra and the Repertory Orchestra both

received gold medals!

13 Franklin High School and 26 middle school

students were accepted into the Central

District Junior and Senior Music Festivals 3 Franklin High School students were

accepted into the All State Music Festival

The Franklin Tri-M Music Honor Society,which is in its third year inducted thirty-five

new students this fall

The Franklin High School Jazz Band received

a silver medal at the MAJE district jazzfestival

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2011-2012 Musical

Performances FHS Pep band performed at Panther Pride Night and all of the

FHS home football games as well as at the Thanksgiving Daygame

Over forty elementary, middle and high school musical concerts

FHS Vocal group, the Sophisticated Seven

performed at the

Veterans Day breakfast in November and they will also perform

at the Senior Center for the Memorial Day ceremony Over one hundred middle and high school students performed

in the Music Departments annual Concert Hour recitals at DeanCollege on February 7th & 9th

Middle School musical, The Wiz

and the high school musical

Grease had a full house for both the Friday and Saturday

night performances

All Town Band Concert May 3rd

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Additional Musical

Experiences JFK, Parmenter & Oak Street students will go to

Providence to perform in an interactive concert with the

Rhode Island Philharmonic

April 28th

29th

100 Franklin High students will travel to

NYC for the weekend . All students will either go to the

Metropolitan Opera to see La Traviata or to the musicalMary Poppins

May 12th

50 middle school choral students will

travel to NYC to see the Lion King

June 1st

55 middle school string students will be going to

hear the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall

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2011-2012 Franklin Arts Academy

Mike Peacock is teaching the music component

in the FAA. He is responsible for the music

integration into the core academics

The ELA/SS classes are studying the 1920s &

1930s. Students are writing short stories thatthey will develop into a radio show of this time

period

Science/Math focus will be on wavelengths andthe integrated project will allow students to

continue their analysis of the acoustics in the

FHS lecture hall

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Music Department

Professional Development

1st

Day Denise Guilbault, Chairman of the

Rhode Island College Music Department

Specialist in the Gordon Learning Theory

2nd Day School site visits each teacher was able

to visit another district to observe a specialist in

their own area. Brought back ideas to share

with our department

LSDO Workshop & All State Music Conference

Half Days Elementary staff revising 4th

& 5th

grade curriculum to include a choral unit Secondary school staff worked on developing a

music department smart goals

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Changes & Additions 2011 2012

4th

& 5th

grade chorus across the district

Kennedy, Oak Street and Parmenter

students are traveling to Providence to

perform in an interactive concert with theRhode Island Philharmonic. Students will

be playing recorders along with the Rhode

Island Philharmonic

All Town Band concert for all band

students in grades six through twelve

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Franklin Music

Boosters Group of middle and high school parents who meet

once a month

Fundraisers include the annual AD Book, Panera,Five Guys, Unos, Yankee Candle

These fundraisers support:

scholarships for graduating seniors

private lesson scholarships

guest artists and cliniciansinstruments purchases

commissioned work projects

Electronic newsletter

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Packets & Articles

2011

2012 Music Department Calendar and

Music Booster Ad Book

Students who were accepted into the district and

all state music festivals

Programs from our Department Concert Hour

recitals at Dean College and Jazz Cafe

Articles: Stem to Steam

Music Improves Brain Function

Arts Involvement Narrows StudentAchievement Gap

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New Research Studying Music

and the Brain Earlier studies indicate students with music

training out perform non-musical peers on spatial

temporal reasoning, auditory discrimination andfinger dexterity

Newer research is showing that young musiciansalso are outperforming their peers on verbal abilityand visual pattern completion

Musical training appears to modify the brainsauditory cortex improving brain function

One

two years of training leads to enhanced levels

of memory and attention

Findings suggest music intervention thatstrengthens the basic auditory music perceptionskills of dyslexic children may also help to remediatesome of their language deficits

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Next Steps

New Electives for Franklin High School

Sound Recording III

Contemporary Issues in Music & Art

Piano Class

Guitar Class

Exciting possibilities for the music

classrooms and recording studio in thenew high school!!!

Questions