Week of November 2, 2009

Grade 7:
Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate their rhythm reading skills by clapping a 4 measure pattern in class. Instrument numbers will be assigned and loan forms should be signed and returned so that school instruments can be taken home next week. Students will use their fingering chart and the 4 practise steps (clap and count, say the letter names in time, do the fingering in time, play and reflect) to learn songs 1-3 on Staff Songs Sheet 1. Composing Assignment #2 will be handed out (composing based upon a character from the fable "The Hare and the Tortoise") This assignment should be completed and handed in during the following class.

Grade 8:
Composing #2- The Minor Scale should be handed in during the first class of the week. Students should be prepared to play their composition and all sections of "Crusade". The culminating analysis project "When Words Fail, Music Speaks" will be assigned and is due at the end of the week or first class of next week - depending upon the class.