The Music Man is a popular music with adults and children alike. With memorable songs and dance numbers, your students will love it! This product gives you a wide variety of worksheets, writing prompts and activities to use with your students. This set was designed for grades 1-8 but could easily work for high school classes as well. Check out the preview for a list of activities with suggested grade levels.

Most of the activities in this set require no musical knowledge, so you can confidently leave pages from this set for a substitute teacher.

PLEASE NOTE: The viewing guide was created to go along with the 1962 movie version of this musical. The one page viewing guide was designed to be used while watching the movie. Most of the other sheets could work after viewing other recordings or performances of The Music Man.

Here’s what you’ll get:
Viewing Guide and Answer Key -24 question viewing guide appropriate for 5th grade and up
Movie Remake –Retell the story of The Music Man(2nd and up)
Parts of a Musical –a page to discuss the four basic components of a musical
Test Yourself – create a quiz about this musical
Take Two – Write an alternate ending to the story
Character Comparison worksheets
The Music Man Character Match- match the characters with their descriptions (4th and up)
Character Analysis-12 different pages to use to analyze, describe and compare characters (2 versions of the same 6 pages. One with primary writing lines and the other with straight lines.)
My Favorite Character –draw and write about a favorite character
Comparing Songs –complete a Venn diagram to compare and contrast two songs from the musical and another sheet that name two songs to compare
My Favorite Song – draw and write about a favorite song from the musical
Musical Playbill –create one for this musical
Where in the World – draw the setting of this musical
Scene It– illustrate a scene from this musical
What is a Barbershop Quartet? –Read a passage and answer some questions about it. (5th Grade and up)
The Think Method –list the pros and cons of this unusual learning strategy
Music Library –pretend you are Marian the Librarian and alphabetize these instrument names
Word Search and answer key
Illustrate “Goodnight, My Someone” and “Seventy-Six Trombones”
The Music Man Coloring Sheet

43 pages

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