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Norman students create 'Oklahoma Rising' songbook

By Jane Glenn Cannon, Staff WriterNORMAN — Drawings of stars, flags, prairie schooners being shot into outer space, a dust storm and a tornado are all part of a songbook designed to teach youngsters the words to Oklahoma’s centennial song, “Oklahoma Rising.” With the blessing of the song’s creators, Jimmy Webb and Vince Gill, students in Cindy Scarberry’s general music classes at Norman High School in the fall of 2013 took the song apart, line by line, and created illustrations to match each line. The brightly colored drawings were put together and used by Scarberry to teach the words and music to her third-grade music class at Monroe Elementary School, where she also teaches. That was the initial idea behind the project, but two years later it has grown into a bigger collaboration. The songbook, called “We’re Oklahoma Rising,” has been printed and made into a spiral-bound book and is now given to any class statewide that comes to a performance of the Oklahoma Heritage Concert Series, sponsored by the Opry Heritage Foundation of Oklahoma. Rodeo Opry, the state’s “official country music show,” also has decided to make a CD that will be added to future printings of the book, Scarberry said. Quik Print of Oklahoma City paid for the first printing, which already has been distributed to numerous teachers throughout the state, from pre-kindergarten to high school, Scarberry said. “The kids who worked on it are thrilled.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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