Integrating the Arts

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By: Carol Schneider

Title:  An Ode to Traveling Westward

Grade Level:  5^th

Subject:  Social Studies

Content Covered:  Traveling West

Materials Needed:

·         Paper

·         Pencil

Procedure:

1.      Explain to students that an ode is a poem about celebration and reverence.  It is a song or lyric poem that most often addresses a thing or a person.  The poem includes celebratory language and grand metaphors.  Show exampl...