Lesson Plans
2nd Quarter
Week #11
Date Nov 4th - 7th
Grades 5-8 Review and justify personal aesthetic criteria for commenting on works of visual and performing art, texts, and events. Analyze, interpret, and evaluate subtle and complex meaning in visual and/or performing arts intended to persuade and influence (as in electronic media, theater, commercial, and political advertising).
Create visual and/or performing artwork to influence, persuade, and explain how the design accomplishes its purpose.
1. Garage Band project (Create background for a Commercial) with parental involvement. Why do we buy certain body grooming products at home?
2. Demonstrate an understanding of how we make personal aesthetic choices in daily decisions.
Week #12
Date Nov 11th - 15th
Review Zoltan Kodaly Relation to "Close Encounters of the Third kind".
Read and analyze a written review of an exhibit, play, concert, or dance performance.
Read local area newspaper for review! (Continue - Create commercial using movement, sound, and visual art).
1. Respond correctly to show "AB" and "ABA" form Twinkle, twinkle , little, star…
Week #13
Date Nov 25th - 30th
1. Prepare for School recitals (Solo, ensembles, band, and chorus.) Review of audience and performance etiquette. "What is expected of me?
2. Explain likes and dislikes of a work of art, music, dance, drama. Describe the qualities of works of art, music, dance, and drama in relation to the senses of sight, hearing, movement, and feeling.
Week #14
Dates Dec 2nd - 6th
1. Write and analyze a written review of an exhibit, play, concert, or dance performance. Review progress .
2. Continue - Garage Band project (Create background for commercial) Performance Review continued..
3. Concert preparation.
Week #15
Date Dec 9th -13th
1. Explain how the arts originate from human experience and are a communal experience, and encourage kinship with others.
2. Use the elements and principles of musical form to explore a variety of styles and songs.
3. Discriminate among the qualities and characteristics of music media, techniques, and processes for the purposes of selecting appropriate media to communicate artistic ideas.
Week #16
Date Dec 16th - 20th
"Secular music during the holidays, and its cultural implications".
Use a variety of resources, materials, and techniques to design and execute art works. Investigate the work of a professional who has an arts component within his/her work environment.
1. Demonstrate an understanding of how achievement in music can support achievement in other disciplines. Review fourth month of learning.
Week #17
Date Jan 2nd - 4th
Vocal work with Kazoos for K-2.
Complete Garage Band projects.
Begin I Movie production (commercial using musical qualities learned this year i.e. forte, piano, vivace, staccato, silence, monophonic, polyphonic, signature sound/motif, and style usage.)
Improvising melodies, variations and accompaniments. Composing and arranging music within specific guidelines.
Sing, play, move to, and identify music with or without a steady beat.
1. Wipe-out Drum signature lick = waves (A SONG THAT HELPS YOU MOVE LIKE A WAVE)
2. Barber of Seville = dance show video Bugs Bunny (signature sounds we grew up with).
Week #18
Date Jan 8th - 13th
"Music's relationship to Grammar"
Review Garage Band project (Completion).
Introduce Musical Report (1 page, typed, about a musical influence).
Lesson collaboration with English (Citing works, and understanding plagiarism).
1. Musical descriptions to explain : Differentiate between a "verse" and a "refrain" in a song.
2. Sing with a group, on pitch and together, following a conductor. Reviews solfeggi and Kodaly (do thru So, utilizing all musical terminology learned).
Week #19
Date Jan 14th - 18th
GRADES 3-8 Short instruction for music as a career.
1. Opportunities and price ranges.
2. Solfeggi review : Solfeggi or Solfeggio, is a method of assigning a syllable to every pitch / degree of a scale. Instead of singing the actual names of the notes in the scale (e.g. c d e f g a b) we use the syllables instead (Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do). Advanced classes learn chromatic scale.
Week #20
Date Jan 21st - 24th
GRADES K-4 "Listening exercise"
1. Ear Training (Major, and minor scales, on different instruments).
Instrument Bingo. Smart Board for Music? Ideas and examples.
Grades 6-8 (Review progress of Report: Plagiarism).
Week #21
Date Jan 27th - Feb 1st
Grades 6-8 (Review progress of Report: Plagiarism). (Review I Movie project).
Grades K-5 Review High School Musical, Hair Spray or other approved videos.
1. Motif recognition.
2. Signature sound.
3. Relate achievement in the arts in comparison to achievement in other disciplines i.e. sports).
4. Interpret or perform simple visual and performance pieces from different cultures and/or times.
a. Create Gregorian chants (align with classes K-5).
b. Recognize selected major periods of the visual arts and performing arts and identify major artists and their work. (Relate activity to different kinds of music used in Maine such as sea chanteys or the music of the Abenaki, the lumbermen, or the textile mills, etc.)
c. African dance and Scottish dance compare musical relationships/contrasts.
d. Rhythm and texture.