Aura Lee with a Twist
Compose an original melody for the second half of Aura Lee while maintaining consistent note durations.
Favorite activities
Classroom-ready activities Anton created in Flat for Education, free for you to preview and use with your own students.
Identify the C, G7 and F Chords
Identify and study the C, G7, and F chords used in the classic song When the Saints Go Marching In.
My Song
Write a 12-measure keyboard song in C Major with original lyrics, treble melody, and bass clef primary chords.
Count the Beats, Basic
Students will count the beats under the provided notes using a guided template to master rhythm basics.
About Anton
I’ve been Music Director at Thomas Starr King Middle School in Los Angeles since 1998. I teach 6th-8th grade Advanced Orchestra, Beginning Strings, Beginning Band and Piano, including theory, composition and music technology.
Flat for Education replaced paper, red pens, and standalone notation tools in my classroom: students write, hear, and share work in real time; I can turn a PDF into a score in under a minute; and even the quarter-tone hymns I grew up with finally have a place on the page.
Anton Boktor
Highlights
- Composer writing mainly original music for his own middle school orchestra
- Trained his German Shepherd to track entirely by ear
- Vegetarian and animal advocate
- Subjects
- Advanced orchestra, beginning strings, beginning band, piano, music theory, composition, music technology
- Grade levels
- Grades 6-8
- Experience
- Music Director since 1998
- School setting
- Thomas Starr King Middle School, Los Angeles