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Music and Literacy

Tutor Tip:

Play Dvorak's New World Symphony for your student, and give the history surrounding the music in the US from 1892-1895. Then, after listening to it have the student write about what their impression is, of the work, as they listen.

Did you know?
Dvořák was interested in the Native American Music and African-American spirituals he heard in America. He spoke of this when he arrived in America:

"I am convinced that the future music of this country must be founded on what are called Negro melodies. These can be the foundation of a serious and original school of composition, to be developed in the United States. These beautiful and varied themes are the product of the soil. They are the folk songs of America and your composers must turn to them.

I found that the music of the negroes and of the Indians was practically identical, and that the music of the two races bore a remarkable similarity to the music of Scotland."
Wikipedia

TLP STAT: Over 40% of our students are African American. Approximately 2% are Native American.

Rotary Sponsors Literacy Students

Local Rotary clubs are sponsoring literacy programs in a new initiative to put a "face" on literacy for Rotarians. Recently, Dan Morrow, Jeanne Tarolli and Dr. Bob Laubach met at The Learning Place to discuss sponsoring of Jeanne's student for the year. Our thanks to Rotarians in CNY for their generous contributions to our center.

Gardening & Literacy

Funds from The New York Newspapers Foundation will enable the Learning Place to establish a new program designed to help women become more self-sufficient.

We will create an atmosphere within our center to enrich their learning experience with technology, and books. The program will also teach them practical business skills, and how to design their own “garden,” and to implement ideas by producing a product to sell.

TLP students will correspond with Operation Upgrade, a South African project that reaches impoverished people with the gift of literacy. Operation Upgrade constructs greenhouses called “tunnels” and gives women the opportunity to grow and sell their own produce to help support and sustain their families and villages.

I'm interested in hearing about other literacy organizations that might be using the gardening experience in their tutoring programs. How has it encouraged YOUR students?