Lesson Plans
3rd Quarter
Week # 25
Date February 22nd - March 5th
District Music Festivals (Teacher review)
1. The Blues Scale is the hexatonic scale
2."We are the World"
a. Musical creators then and now..
Week #26
Date March 10th - 14th
"Music is a language"
Practice rhythms for composition / review quiz for upper grades.
Adjust schedule for MEA testing
1. Align curriculum with English teachers suggesting "Poems". Intro to composition in 7 steps. Completion of Reports
2. Artistic critique Sheet for I movie projects:
3. Review Surrealism as a whole.
Week #27
Date March 17th - 21st
Review of Meter (Composition April 1-4)
1. Completion of I movie and Critiques.
2. Political sounds *Quiz*
3. Music and its relationship to appropriate usage at different age groups!
a. Boom Wakers K-3 "Lets go Marching" 2/4 meter - teamwork
Week #28
Date March 24th - 28th
Review of Pitch (Composition April 1-4)
1. Imovie project (tv commercial 1min.)
2. Music Journals - Sub genres for 5-8 grade
3. Test -Audio- Music journals covering dynamics, tempo,etc.. and including new terms of signature sound, surrealism, and other techniques to design and execute art works.
4. "Black Horse and a Cherry Tree" Real meaning verse projected meanings?
Week #29
Date April 1st - 4th
"Maine State Learning Results Visual and Performing Arts" What does this mean to me?
Intro to German Baroque composer Pachelbel's famous,canon (8 notes)
American pop and its classical roots. Harmonic structure in relation to form. classical / contemporary rock forms.
Week #30
Date April 7th - 11th
"Full Recording of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev Pictures of instruments (see vocabulary)"
1. Review Tests, Music journal review,
2. I Movie review
3. How to read basic and advanced rhythms.
Week #31
Date April 14th - 18th
1. Continue composition (chord structures basic I IV V I)
2. Music journal: review styles, tonalities, meter, instrumentation.
Down beat and pick up note in music performance. (ball pass game on the floor)
Week #32
Date April 28th - May 2nd
1. "Jazz and its place in American History"
"Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, Louis Armstrong, Mike Stern, Winton Marsalles"
2. Review for test..
Week #33
Date May 5th - 9th
Testing over yearly subjects.
Practice for Variety Show (performance indicators)
1. Goal setting for learning musical instruments.
2. Mozart Say's (game to review music and performance).
Week #34
Date May 12th - 16th
"Contemporary Music and its relation to 1760 Johannes Pachelbel"
Basis for Contemporary Harmonic structure
1. 5-8 Jazz legends of the trumpet Dizzy, Miles, Louis, Bix...
2. K-3 Basic rhythmic patterns Bossa Nova & Swing rhythms. (Using Boom Wackers)
Week #35
Date May 19th - 23rd
1. Compare music and symbolism between "the Wizard of OZ" and the "Wiz"
Continue Genre/Style review.
Theme: Qualities
1. repetition
2. special effects.
3. call and response.
4. short motif..
Folk, Dixieland, Blues, Symphony etc..
Begin Concert preparation.
Week #36
Dates May 27th - 30th
Concert preparation
1. Review of Concert etiquette, and performance qualities.
Ear training review
Scales:
Intervals:
2. Rhythm i.e.. shuffle Verse straight.
Week #38
Date June 2nd - 6th Question
1. "Why is music important to me!"
Jobs for the future of music:
a. Gaming - Sound tracks - Performance - Education
Price ranges.
2. Guitar Hero Benefits and Draw backs. Technology in the musical classroom.
Physical / reality-electronic switches.
3. Music software: Finale, Scorch, Cakewalk, Pro-tools, and Full Sail School...
4. Discussion about "Gifted and Talented" pick students for 3rd, 5th, and 8th grade GT program.
Week #39
Date June 9th -13th
Concert week Friday special guest .....
1. Observation High school chorus and band.
2. Discussions of district festivals - participation for next year!
Week #40
Date June 16th - 20th
1. "Musical Diversity" End of year fun (playing of instruments) goals!
2. Review of yearly progress.
". . .I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange."
Dizzy Gillespie