November 18, 2013

November 18, 2013

Grade 7 Goals: This week we will be focusing on reading and playing using 4 tones in the concert Bb scale, and demonstrate our understanding by performing a Question and Answer song from Staff Songs 4.

During our first class of the week, we will review our scale warm-up using the 4 tones on our scale fingering chart. We will review Staff Songs 3 and Question and Answer form, identifying this song form in examples from Staff Songs 4. Students will be asked to prepare one of the Question and Answer songs from Staff Songs 4 for a test during their second class of the week. Success criteria will be discussed.

During our second class of the week, students will perform, alone or in small groups, one of the Question and Answer songs assigned for a mark. Feedback will be provided during class.

Homework: Learn Staff Songs 4 and prepare one of the Question and Answer songs for a test.


Grade 8 Goals: Our goals for thus week are to demonstrate our understanding of the elements of music and the creative process by performing our group compositions about war. We will also continue our work with rhythm by counting and performing a  section of "Swingle Bells".

During our first class of the week, students will revisit the success criteria for their war composition, and discuss the weighting for each part of the self-evaluation process. They will perform their compositions and then reflect on their performance by completing a self-evaluation.

During our second class of the week, students will complete the remaining performances, and then review the "Liberty March" measures 1-32, and  "Swingle Bells" measures 7-14. Students will begin "Swingle Bells" by clapping, then fingering in time and finally, playing. Measures 14-23 will be assigned for homework.

Howework: "Swingle Bells" 7-23.