Submitted by Connie Herbon, Iowa

Idea posted October 23, 2002

Here are the questions and the word bank of choices for THE MUSIC AND HEROES OF AMERICA (Peanuts gang) video. These were done to focus listening, not for testing purposes. My 4ths were very proud of themselves that they scored higher than the 5ths!

THE MUSIC AND HEROES OF AMERICA

  1. What instrument was Snoopy playing? ___________
  2. What is Schroeder's instrument? ___________
  3. What famous Stephen Foster song traveled west with the hopeful miners during the Gold Rush? ___________
  4. What song was inspired by an 1895 visit to Pike's Peak in Colorado? ___________
  5. Who wrote the poem which provided the words for this song? ___________
  6. What American composer was given the title "March King"? ___________
  7. What early 20th century American composer is sometimes called "the father of the musical comedy"? ___________
  8. Where was Irving Berlin born? ___________
  9. What was his first big hit? ___________
  10. From where did "spirituals" come? ___________
  11. What American composer "hit it big" in 1899 with his million-selling "Maple Leaf Rag"? ___________
  12. W.C. Handy was the first great composer of what American musical form? ___________
  13. Name two famous American leaders who were assassinated in the 1960s. ___________ ___________
WORD BANK:
  • Russia
  • slaves
  • "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
  • banjo
  • blues
  • "Oh, Susanna"
  • John F. Kennedy
  • piano
  • "Yankee Doodle"
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Scott Joplin
  • "America The Beautiful"
  • John Philip Sousa
  • guitar"Hound Dog"
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • drums
  • Germany
  • Katharine Lee Bates
  • George M. Cohan