Teacher Resources

Lesson Plans

1. Teacher Resource

2. Teacher Resource - Units

3. Character Map

4. Chapter Questions for Now's The Time

5. Now's The Time debate topics

6. Responding To Jazz

7. Did's Trumpet--Creative Expression

8. Now's The Time Essay Topic and research paper

9. Now's The Time Lyrics

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Bebop music links and info

The Hardbop Homepage: http://hardbop.tripod.com/
Smithsonian jazz: http://hardbop.tripod.com/
Jazzitude's jazz history: http://www.jazzitude.com/blhistory.htm
Jazz Profiles: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com
Jazz Lives: http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/

Video:
The time Earl Wilson "Uncle Tom'd" Bird and Dizzy on TV (and they played their self respect through their horns): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvCDCOGzGc
Lee Morgan and Benny Golson blow a tribute to Brownie (written by Golson), I Remember Clifford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDbrxLz20JY
Miles and Trane, So What: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlIU-2N7WY4
Monk's Round Midnight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmeNsmQaFw
Monk's Blue Monk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY&feature=related