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3. Walk R, L, R, L or toe heel, toe heel, toe heel, toe heel


Back R, L, R, L or toe heel, toe heel, toe heel, toe heel


4. Walk around, 2, 3, 4 (turn to the right)


(See Appendix B for tap instruction videos!)


*As students gain confidence they should take hands from hips and use their hands/ arms to the sides for balance!


5. When students have 1, 2 and 3 learned, they can get into groups and use these steps to add to the routine, but I would make a ground rule that they must use 8, 16 or 32 counts of something, and their additions should add up to 64! (Yes! Music is math!) In the classroom students would require some time to collaborate on their


and the number of counts added would be up to teacher discretion. It’s an ex- tremely flexible assignment. If doing this virtually, a student could make up 32 or even 64 counts, and film them- selves for you to see, or they could teach a sibling or parent a step and film that as their summative assessment.*


Composition:


• On the “Sunny Side of the Street” was written in 1930.


• It was introduced in the Broadway musical Lew Leslie’s International Revue starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence.


• It was recorded by Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson and a host of others.


• The song was featured in the 1991 film JFK, and in an episode of the sitcom Frasier. https://youtu. be/11biGEsLbIM


• See also: www.jazzstandards.com Composer:


• While some authors contend that Fats Waller was the song’s composer and he sold the rights to the song, it is generally recognized that Jimmy McHugh wrote the music and Dorothy Fields wrote the lyrics.


• Jimmy McHugh (1896-1969) was born in Boston, MA.


• He was a rehearsal pianist at the Boston Opera, and held several other jobs before moving to New York at age 26.


• Aside from several Broadway cred- its, McHugh wrote over 500 songs.


• A medley of his songs were includ- ed in the acclaimed 1979 Broad- way show Sugar Babies, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney. “On the Sunny Side of the Street” was one of the songs in the show.


choreography,


• Dorothy Fields (1905-1974), born in Allenhurst, New Jersey, wrote lyr- ics for over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films, including “The Way You Look Tonight,” “A Fine Romance,” and “On the Sunny Side of the Street.”


• Her father, Lew Fields, was part of one of the most popular comedy duos in vaudeville at the end of the 19th century.


• She had two older brothers who also were successful as writers and pro- ducers on Broadway.


• She wanted to become an actress but when her father refused to let her take a job she became a teacher and lab assistant, while secretly submitting written work to magazines.


• She met Jimmy McHugh in 1928 and was invited to write some lyrics for him for a Broadway show. They teamed up until 1935.


• She collaborated in ensuing years with Arthur Schwartz, Jerome Kern and her brother Herbert Fields, with whom she wrote the books for three Cole Porter shows.


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• She was the first woman to be induct- ed into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and was honored on a U.S. postage stamp.


Style: Jazz (see Style Appendix for more information)


Assessments:


• Formative Assessment 1 Ask students to describe, in their own words, what is meant by the term “American jazz standard.” This could be in the form of an exit ticket.


• Formative Assessment 2 See strategy #4 above


• Summative Assessment 1 See #5 above


Rubric 3


Students showed original steps well and added required step(s)


2


Students showed original


steps but did not execute additional choreography.


Summative Assessment 2 (at another class or time)


• Play another jazz standard that stu- dents have not heard before, asking students to listen, count themselves in on the introduction, and perform their steps to the new music.


• Possible music: (students must solve the question “How many beats of intro?”


• Benny Goodman Trio “After You’ve Gone” (introduction 8 counts) https://youtu.be/8qtJVThNQ_M


• Puppini Sisters “Jeepers Creepers” (introduction 32 counts) https://youtu.be/QfS1Uw6Omfs


• Stevie Wonder “Isn’t She Lovely” (introduction 16 counts) https://youtu.be/oE56g61mW44


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