MUSED 457: General Music Curriculum Development Project

THEME: WEEK 1 Knowledge/Concepts Beat vs. Rhythm Monday* Pitch: Higher vs. Lower pitch Tempo: largo vs. allegro Tuesday Dynamics: piano vs. forte Form: Same vs. Different Wednesday Meter: Simple vs. Compound Pitch: Do, mi, sol (Level 1 Major) Thursday Articulation: legato vs. staccato Skills Teaching Strategies
Quick Reaction Play Body solfege Problem based learning

2013-2014

GRADE: Assessment Cross-Curricular

Note that music is a major part of daily lives including sporting activities (We Will Rock You

Moving Singing Notating

Formative assessment through listening and watching movements

Listening Moving Evaluating

Follow Quick Reaction

Formative assessment through listening and watching movements

Connect with Dance (show video)

Playing Moving Improvisation

Quick Reaction Problem Based Learning Exploration

Formative assessment through listening and watching movements

Math: multiples of three and multiples of two, factors

Reading/Notating Singing

Quick Reaction Echoing Echo-translating Hand-signing Song games Teaching by rote Echoing Echo-translating Group work (compose quarter-eighth rhythm) Teaching by rote

Formative assessment through listening to performance and questioning

Use of reading techniques to introduce new vocabulary words

Tempo: moderato Friday Rhythm: quarter vs. eighth notes

Reading/Notating Composing Singing

Formative assessment through listening to

Use of Emily Dickinson poem for lyrics of rhythm composition

MUSED 457: General Music Curriculum Development Project

2013-2014

WEEK 2

Knowledge/Concepts Harmony: Major vs. Minor

Skills Listening Reading/Notating Singing

Teaching Strategies

Assessment
Formative assessment through listening to performance and questioning

Cross-Curricular Civil Rights Movement with Go Down Moses and Lift Every Voice and Sing

Monday Rhythm: half notes and whole notes Dynamics: ff, mf, mp, pp Form: ABA

Teach by Rote Echoing Discussion

Tuesday*

Listening Evaluating Singing

Problem-based Learning Teach by Rote Music Games Follow Echoing Echo-translating Teach by Rote Hand Signing Follow Quick Reaction Folk Dancing Group Work

Formative assessment through listening to performance and questioning

Brief discussion of adjectives, prefixes, and suffixes.

Wednesday

Pitch: La, do, mi (Level 1 Minor) Singing Reading/Notating Tempo: ritardando and Moving a tempo Articulation: Accents Singing Composing Moving

Formative assessment through listening to performance, questioning, and watching movements

World Music Connection 1: Asia

Thursday

Dynamics: crescendo and decrescendo Rhythm: The rest quarter, half, and whole Pitch: Fa, Re (Level 2 Major)

Formative assessment through listening to performance and questioning

Connection with other arts: dancing

Friday

Playing Singing Reading/Notating

Echoing Echo-translating Hand Signing Teach by Rote

Singing Test covering Level 1 major and minor and Level 1 simple and compound to be recorded individually in a practice room

World Music Connection 2: Latin America

MUSED 457: General Music Curriculum Development Project

2013-2014

WEEK 3

Knowledge/Concepts Rhythm: Syncopation

Skills

Teaching Strategies Discussion Problem Based Learning Canon Echo / Echo translation Canon Problem Based Learning Hand signing Echo / Echo translation Hand signing Ensemble playing Exploration

Assessment Formative assessment through listening to performance and questioning

Cross-Curricular Song During South Africas Apartheid Weeping by Dan Heymann Math: How do you find 50 percent? If you add fifty percent to a whole, how much do you have?

Monday

Texture: Introduction to harmony Pitch: Ti, Re (Level 2 Minor)

Moving Singing Improvising

Tuesday Rhythm: dotted half notes and ties Pitch: La, Ti (Level 3 Major) Wednesday* Form: Verse and Chorus Rhythm: Dotted quarter notes Thursday Dynamics: subito piano and subito forte Texture: Intro to types of harmony Homophony vs. polyphony

Singing Reading/Notating

Formative assessment through listening to performance and questioning

Singing Playing Evaluating Arranging

Formative assessment through listening to performance and questioning

Song in the American Revolution Yankee Doodle Haydns Surprise Symphony - The classical era Use of Reading prediction tool with symphony Use of reading techniques to introduce new vocabulary

Listening Evaluating Playing

Listening guide Exploration Teach by Rote

Formative assessment through listening to performance and questioning

Friday

Composing Singing Playing

Discussion Group work

Unit quiz