National Content Standards for Music Education

1.  Singing alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

2.  Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

3.  Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments

4.  Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

5.  Reading and notating music

6.  Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

7.  Evaluating music and music performance

8.  Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outsides the arts

9.  Understanding music in relation to history and culture

December 2-5, 2008

Lesson 7(DP)

Standards:1,2,3,5,6

Objectives:  SWBAT improvise and perform an idividual rhythm solo, sing solfeggio patterns in tune as well as sing American Patriotic songs, identify changes in music by ear, identify the notes of the treble staff.

1.  Notes of staff and kinds of notes mini-quiz

2.  Movement activity to a rock song.

3.  Percussion ensemble

4. Sight-reading

5.  Singing- solfeggio patterns, patriotic songs

6.  Form

7.  pianos- composition project (The Seasons)

Assessment:  observation, call and response, bell-ringers

Lesson 8(DP)

Standards:1,2,3,5,6

Objectives:  SWBAT improvise and perform an idividual rhythm solo, sing solfeggio patterns in tune as well as sing American Patriotic songs, identify changes in music by ear, identify the notes of the treble staff.

1.  Begin Labelling Rhythm patterns

2.  Movement activity to a rock song.

3.  Percussion ensemble

4. Sight-reading

5.  Singing- solfeggio patterns, patriotic songs

6.  Form

7.  piano composition project (The Seasons)

Assessment:  observation, call and response, bell-ringers