Danielle

Santilli, General Music Teacher

Reach Charter Academy
Email Address: 77.dsantilli@nhaschools.com ; Website: http://santillimusic.weebly.com/

Music Class Syllabus
Welcome to a year of learning and making music! Following Michigan Music Standards and Common Core
General music classes at Reach Charter Academy are prepared Curricular guides, students will explore the elements of music
to involve students in a variety of musical educational through singing, reading music, writing music, and playing
opportunities. My goal is that students will develop a life-long melodic and non-melodic instruments.
love of music by having an awesome start. The course will last
10 weeks-one trimester. Music Classroom expectations will be discussed and incentives
given for great participation and behavior.
Bottom line: We learn music while having lots of fun!


Reach Charter Academys Music Curriculum:
CCGPS
Standard 1: Singing alone and with others, a varied Standard 5: Reading and notating music
repertoire of music Standard 6: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
Standard 2: Performing on instruments, alone and with Standard 7: Evaluating music and music performances
others, a varied repertoire of music Standard 8: Understanding relationships between music,
Standard 3: Improvising melodies, variations, and the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
accompaniments Standard 9: Understanding music in relation to history
Standard 4: Composing and arranging music within and culture
specified guidelines Standard 10: Moving, alone and with others, to a varied
repertoire of music
Student Expectations:
Students will be expected to complete all assignments and lessons by the assigned due date REGARDLESS OF CLASS
ATTENDANCE. Students will be given 40 minutes of class time to work on the assignments for the week. All students will be
provided a Chromebook, headphones, and mouse to use during school hours to complete the assignments. Students will not
be allowed to take home these materials unless it has been arranged with the media center coordinator. Students are
allowed to redo any assignment but it must be turned in by the end of that week. (Example-if an assignment is returned to
you on a Monday, it must be resubmitted by that following Friday.)

Teacher Expectations:
The teacher will be expected to provide any help and additional instruction during class time or by email after school hours.
All emails will be responded to by 8:00pm the day sent- any emails sent after that time will be responded to the following
day before 8:00pm. All work will be graded the Monday after the assignment is turned in (including any redone assignments).

Class Schedule:

Week Assignment Due

1 Beat Lesson 1 Beat Lesson 1 Blog Post
2 Beat Lesson 2 Beat Lesson 2 Blog Post
2 Beat Lesson 3 Beat Lesson 3 Blog Post
Beat Unit Activity Beat Unit Activity Post
4 Melody Lesson 1 Melody Lesson 1 Blog Post
5 Melody Lesson 2 Melody Lesson 2 Blog Posts (2)
6 Melody Lesson 3 Melody Lesson 3 Blog Posts (2)
Melody Unit Activity Melody Unity Activity Post
7 Composition Lesson 1 Composition Lesson 1 Blog Post
8 Composition Lesson 2 Composition Lesson 2 Blog Post
9 Composition Lesson 3 Composition Lesson 3 Blog Post
10 Composition Unit Activity Composition Unit Activity Post

Grading Scale: A= 90-100 B= 80-89 C= 70-79 D= 60-69 F= 59 or Below
Grading Policy: Lesson Activities = 50%
Unit Activities = 50%