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Alouette

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Court métrage d'animation sur la chanson populaire Alouette, gentille alouette. Norman McLaren, à titre de premier producteur du studio Animation de l'ONF, collabore avec René Jodoin à cet extrait d'une série d'émissions intitulée Let's all sing together. Animation par image de découpages de papier.

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Court métrage d'animation sur la chanson populaire Alouette, gentille alouette. Norman McLaren, à titre de premier producteur du studio Animation de l'ONF, collabore avec René Jodoin à cet extrait d'une série d'émissions intitulée Let's all sing together. Animation par image de découpages de papier.
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  • director
    Norman McLaren
    René Jodoin
  • animation
    Norman McLaren
    René Jodoin
  • producer
    Norman McLaren

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Ages 6 to 7
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Arts Education - Art Arts Education - Music English Language Arts - Quebec Literature
Ask students to study song structure (verse, chorus); invent verses that name the various parts of a bird’s body; write new lyrics to the tune of “Alouette,” but describing a different animal; gradually draw the bird as the verses of the song describe it; make word labels using the song’s vocabulary and create a mobile combining the drawings and labels.
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