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I teach in a Title I school servicing 22 classes, approximately 475 students, every 3 days. Our student body is comprised of 20% African American and 80% Hispanic with a number of students coming from countries in Africa and Central America. Each year I teach a drumming unit to the classes, in which they play not only drums but other percussion instruments We are limited in the number of instruments we currently have and many times have to substitute instruments to make certain each child has an instrument to play.
I want to make the experience of playing instruments as authentic as possible for the students. Therefore I am asking for these four instruments, which represent the instrumentation of Africa and the Caribbean, to help offer each class an experience that is authentic in sound, style, and structure. Our students do not have as many opportunities to experience music in it's most authentic format, no only during the drumming unit, but with other songs they sing which accompaniments would include some of these instruments.
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I teach in a Title I school servicing 22 classes, approximately 475 students, every 3 days. Our student body is comprised of 20% African American and 80% Hispanic with a number of students coming from countries in Africa and Central America. Each year I teach a drumming unit to the classes, in which they play not only drums but other percussion instruments We are limited in the number of instruments we currently have and many times have to substitute instruments to make certain each child has an instrument to play.
I want to make the experience of playing instruments as authentic as possible for the students. Therefore I am asking for these four instruments, which represent the instrumentation of Africa and the Caribbean, to help offer each class an experience that is authentic in sound, style, and structure. Our students do not have as many opportunities to experience music in it's most authentic format, no only during the drumming unit, but with other songs they sing which accompaniments would include some of these instruments.