Goals/Objectives:

• Identify instruments and sounds associated with blues and jazz music
• Explain the meaning of the “northern road” in Langston Hughes’s poem “Bound No’th Blues”
• Identify the mood of the song “Bound No’th Blues” based on text and sound

Common Core Standards:

• RL.4.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text
• RL.4.7: Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral representation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.