Home on the Range Song of Kansas words and music of Dr. Brewster Higley

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Home on the Range Song of Kansas words and
music ofDr. Brewster Higley

• Daniel Kelley
• Candace Richard
• Sunflower Intermediate School
• Liberal KS

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Kansas State Standards Fifth Grade

• HISTORY Kansas, United States, and World
  
• History Standard The student uses a working
  knowledge and understanding of significant
  individuals, groups, ideas, events, eras, and
  developments in the history of Kansas, the United
  States, and the world, utilizing essential
  analytical and research skills.
• Benchmark 1 The student uses a working
  knowledge and understanding of individuals,
  groups, ideas, developments, and turning points
  in the age of exploration.
• 1.?(K) explains how re-settlers adapted to their
  environment in relationship to shelter and food
• Benchmark 4 The student engages in historical
  thinking skills.
• 5. (A) observes and draws conclusions.
• MUSIC Basic
• Standard 1 Singing, alone and with others, a
  varied repertoire of music
• Benchmark 3 The student sings from memory a
  varied repertoire of songs representing genres
  and styles from diverse cultures.
• Standard 8 Understanding relationships between
  music, the other arts, and disciplines outside
  the arts
• Benchmark 2 The student identifies ways in
  which the principles and subject matter of other
  disciplines taught in the school are interrelated
  with those of music.
• Standard 9 Understanding music in relation to
  history and culture
• Benchmark 4 The student identifies and
  describes roles of musicians in various music
  settings and cultures.

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Objectives

• Students will have an insight into the life of
  Kansas re-settlers in the 1870s
• Students will be able to sing by memory the first
  verse of Home on the Range, and identify its
  composer and lyricist

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Activities

• Students will sing Home on the Range
• Students will read and discuss story of Home on
  the Range within small student groupings
• http//www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/
  homeontherange/
• http//www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/home/offici
  al.htm
• http//www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article
  .asp?ArticleID459
• Home on the Range Kansas ties to state song
  are strong
• Kansan Wrote Home on the Range
• Oh, Give Me A Home
• Students will watch video KTWU Sunflower
  Journeys 1601A Home on the Range
• Students will listen to excerpts from The Diary
  of Virginia D. (Jones-Harlan) Barr
• http//www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/home/diary.
  htm

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Vocabulary

• Range
• A large, open area of land over which livestock
  can wander and graze
• Discouraging
• Deprive (remove) courage make less confident or
  hopeful
• Folk Music
• Music by and of the common people
• Lyricist
• One who writes the words of a song
• Composer
• One who writes the music of a song

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Home on the Range Oh give me a home where the
buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope
play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day Home, home
on the range Where the deer and the antelope
play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
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Dr. Brewster Higley, Lyricist
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Dan Kelley, Composer
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• What was the original name of the Home on the
  Range poem?
• In what year did Higley write this poem?
• Where and when was the earliest surviving copy of
  the poem printed?
• In What type of home did Higley live?
• Where was Higleys home (creek, county, state)?
• What instrument did Kelley play?
• Which president claimed the song as his favorite?
• Which state claims Home on the Range as its
  official state song?
• What was the great hunt and when did it begin?
• In approximately what year were there no more
  buffalo to roam?

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Home on the Range Oh give me a home where the
buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope
play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day Home, home
on the range Where the deer and the antelope
play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
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The Western Home 1. O, give me a home where the
buffalo roam Where the deer and the antelope
play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the sky is not cloudy all day. Chorus A
home, a home Where the deer and the antelope
play, Where never is heard a discouraging
word And the sky is not cloudy all day. 2. Oh,
give me land the land where the bright diamond
sand Throws its light on the glittering
stream Where glideth along the graceful white
swan Like a maid in her heavenly dream. 3. O
give me the gale of the Solomon vale Where the
life stream of buoyancy flows On the banks of
the Beaver where seldom, if ever Any poisonous
herbage doth grow. 4. I love the wild flowers in
this bright land of ours, I love, too, the wild
curlers scream The bluffs and white rocks and
antelope flocks, That graze on the mountain so
green.
Home on the Range 1. Oh, give me a home where
the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope
play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging
word And the skies are not cloudy all
day. Chorus Home, home on the range, Where the
deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard
a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy
all day. 2. Where the air is so pure, the
zephyrs so free, The breezes so balmy and
light, That I would not exchange my home on the
range For all of the cities so bright. 3. The
red man was pressed from this part of the
West, Hes likely no more to return, To the
banks of Red River where seldom if ever Their
flickering camp-fires burn. 4. How often at
night when the heavens are bright With the light
from the glittering stars, Have I stood here
amazed and asked as I gazed If their glory
exceeds that of ours.
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5. How often at night when the heavens were
bright By the light of the twinkling stars, Have
I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed If their
glory exceeds that of ours. 6. The air is so
clear, the breeze so pure, The zephyr so balmy
and light I would not exchange my home here on
range Forever in assure so bright.
5. Oh, I love these wild flowers in this dear
land of ours, The curlew I love to her
scream, And I love the white rocks and the
antelope flocks That graze on the mountain-tops
green. 6. Oh, give me a land where the bright
diamond sand Flows leisurely down the
stream Where the graceful white swan goes
gliding along Like a maid in a heavenly
dream. 7. Then I would not exchange my home on
the range, Where the deer and the antelope
play Where seldom is heard a discouraging
word And the skies are not cloudy all day.
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Trinket box, made from an old guitar of the
Harlan family Virginia D. (Jones-Harlan) Barr
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Assessment

• Vocabulary
• Formal or informal students will volunteer
  definitions individually or as a class
• Song memorization
• Informal students will sing as a group Home on
  the Range by memory

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Vocabulary

• Range
• A large, open area of land over which livestock
  can wander and graze
• Discouraging
• Deprive (remove) courage make less confident or
  hopeful
• Folk Music
• Music by and of the common people
• Lyricist
• One who writes the words of a song
• Composer
• One who writes the music of a song

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Home on the Range Oh give me a home where the
buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope
play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day Home, home
on the range Where the deer and the antelope
play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
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Internet Websites

• http//www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/range.htm
• http//www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/home/diary.
  htm
• http//www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/higley.htm
• http//www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/home/offici
  al.htm
• http//www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/
  homeontherange/
• http//ktwu.washburn.edu/journeys/scripts/2003/160
  1a.html
• http//www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article
  .asp?ArticleID459
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_song

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Video and Recordings

• KTWU Sunflower Journeys 1601A Home on the
  Range, video available at Coronado Museum, 562 E
  Cedar, Liberal KS
• Cowboy Songs with historical narration, Keith
  Rusty McNeil, WEM Records, recording available at
  Candace Richard, Sunflower Intermediate School,
  Liberal KS
• The Streets of Cimarron, Dodge City Marshall
  Allen D. Bailey, Tin Star Records, recording
  available at Candace Richard, Sunflower
  Intermediate School, Liberal KS

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Articles

• The Story of Home on the Range, Kirke Mechem,
  Heritage of Kansas, Vol. 2 No. 2, May 1958, pp.
  10-40, re-print Kansas Heritage Center, 1000
  North 2nd Ave., Dodge City KS
• Kansas ties to state song are strong, Wichita
  Eagle, 31 January 1993, re-print Kansas Heritage
  Center, 1000 North 2nd Ave., Dodge City KS
• Oh Give Me A Home, Homer E. Socolofsky, Kansas
  Heritage, Winter 1995, pp. 60-72, re-print Kansas
  Heritage Center, 1000 North 2nd Ave., Dodge City
  KS
• Kansan Wrote Home on the Range, Charlotte M.
  Offen, Kanhistique, Vol. 2 No. 12, pp. 1, 3,
  re-print Kansas Heritage Center, 1000 North 2nd
  Ave., Dodge City KS
• Home on the Range, re-print Kansas Heritage
  Center, 1000 North 2nd Ave., Dodge City KS

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Books and Charts

• Homes of the West, Bobbie Kalman, Crabtree
  Publishing Company, Book available at Coronado
  Museum, 562 E Cedar, Liberal KS
• Glamorous History and Varied Scenery of Kansas,
  Coronado Rides Again, Map available at Coronado
  Museum, 562 E Cedar, Liberal KS
• Smith County Map, http//www.mapquest.com