During classes this week, we will be reviewing our scale warm up and songs from Staff Songs sheet #4. We will add notes to our scale so that we can play an 8 note scale and use it as a warm up. In our Staff Songs sheets, we will be looking for patterns and discovering ways in which composers use patterns to create melodies. For homework, students will be asked to begin practising song #14 from our song book Essential Elements 2000.
During the second class of the week, we will be learning about "phrases" which are musical sentences. We will identify the things that make some melodies "question phrases" and others "answer phrases" such as the pitch and length of ending notes.
Homework, students will be asked to learn song 14 from Essential Elements 2000 and create their own "question and answer song" which incorporates a musical pattern and punctuation. No Journal question this week, but remember to focus your practise time and use special strategies for things you wished to improve.
Grade 8: This is practise week 12 in term 1. You should be practising twice outside of class this week.
During our first class, we will perform the 8 or more measures of Jingle Bell Rock assigned last week and set a new practising goal for next class. We will listen to the recordings of our war compositions and reflect on whether we were successful by responding to the following questions in class and in our journals:
1. What things do you think you and your group did well?
2. What made some people's melodies particularly effective? Explain.
3. As you listen to your group's performance, do you believe that you communicated your ideas/feeling(s) about war effectively? Why or why not?
4. Evaluate your own performance. Were you accurate, on time, in time with the beat, did your pattern match your war word, and did it demonstrate some skill and creativity, and did you perform it expressively (with your war word in mind)? Explain.
5. What could you do to make your performance more successful and what are your next steps?
Students will receive feedback based upon their written presentation and performance. They may re-record their war composition for a higher mark within one week.
During the second class of the week, we will begin the music of Peace by performing a Hymn two different ways. First, we will perform a simple version with whole and half note chords, focusing on creating a peaceful mood. Later we will add the decorative passing notes to make it more complex, but still focusing on mood and style.
Homework: practise a new section of "Jingle Bell Rock" so that we can perform it together next week.
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