Swing of Change 

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New York 30's : Harry, a barber, has some prejudiced views.  These seem to change due to the magic of music.

Writing Ideas

• Write some dialogue between the Barber and his first customer or between the barber and the Trumpeter.
• Write a narrative for the story.
• Write a story about another musical instrument
• Carry out some oral story telling - children giving musical instruments magical powers
• Write about the magic trumpeter - who is he what is his name? describe him.
• What other problems could the trumpeter solve?

Whole class oral storytelling

​Give the children a musical instrument to study e.g. violin, guitar etc.  Start off a story tell the children someone finds the instrument in the street.  Choose a child to say who found it. next child describes this person, what are they like where they live etc.  E.g. could say his name is Jason, he is homeless, he is lonely, he looks scruffy.  Include some rules such as the character cannot play the instrument at all.  Next child describes what happens next.  Where does he go etc Who does he take the instrument to?  Next child describes this new character etc etc...