Professional Development with Dr. Mark Malone - "Elvis and the Blues Storm through Mississippi"

ATTENTION TEACHERS!!!

HAC's Professional Development with Dr. Mark Malone 

"Elvis & the Blues Storm through Mississippi" - Arts Integration in the Classroom

HAC will offer our annual professional development workshop, with K-12 teachers as its target audience. The workshop will be led by Dr. Mark Malone. HAC will provide a continental breakfast, snacks, lunch, and .7 CEU(s) for ALL for FREE (Yes, HAC is paying for your CEU credits - A $10 value !!!)

Location: Hattiesburg Cultural Center, 723 North Main Street, 39401

All-inclusive and FREE !! MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW !!!

Deadline for registration is: Thursday, July 20th, 2023

Session date: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 from 8am-3pm

TO RESIGTER 

Email  the following information to Dr. Mark Malone at: hughfsu74@gmail.com

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Feel free to contact us with your questions or concerns: HAC Office: 601-583-6005

Session Outline: Lessons in the Blues

     · Associations with primary and secondary colors

     · Picasso’s Blue period in visual art

     · Jim Crow Laws and African American blues origins

     · Blues scale vs. Major scale, harmony vs. melody

     · Boowhackers

     · Simple Blues Song and similarities to Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit

     · “Cell-Phone Blues”

     · 12-Bar Blues Chord Progression

     · Analysis of Blues song

     · Brainstorming problems of Fourth Grade Students

     · Writing Blues lyrics

     · Performing Blues songs created by participants

Elvis Presley

     · Elvis: The Story of the Rock and Roll King by Bonnie Christensen

     · Combining Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Honky-Tonk, etc.

     · Parallels to Blues Songs: compare/contrast

     · “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Hound Dog” with choreography

The Story of Hurricane Camille (S.T.E.A.M.)

     · The development of a hurricane

     · Tracking a hurricane

     · Interactive floor map from Africa to the Caribbean

     · Kinesthetic movement to simulate a hurricane

     · Re-creation of the forming & movement of Hurricane Camille using an interactive hurricane tracking map

Portrait Painters in Mississippi in the Antebellum Period (1820-1865)

     · Thomas Cantwell Healy, Charles Bird King, George Catlin, John James Audubon

     · Self-portraits with torn paper

American folk dances (time permitting)