Week 1: Music Symbol Identification
TSWBAT identify music symbols through the use of flash cards.
complete workbook page 1, do class introductions
Week 2: Continue learning the music symbols and learn about dynamics.
TSWBAT identify and translate the Italian musical symbols.
Complete workbook pp.2-4, set up journals, complete six weeks
exam. Journal: symbol study sheet and dynamics study sheet
exam
Weeks 3-4: “Songs in the Key of Life” and Different Notes
TSWBAT reflect on the role that music plays in society, learn
about a group of musicians in Iraq, and create liner notes and
an album cover based on interviews; students will also learn
to identify the different types of notes.
Complete workbook pp.5-9; interview 4 people, create liner
notes and album cover, BONUS: Make a CD and add materials
to your journals
Weeks 5-6: Music Math
TSWBAT learn note values and how to count rhythms by reading
musical notation symbols.
Use rhythm flash cards to count, complete workbook pp.10-19
View “Stomp Out Loud” Journal: Music Math and Counting
Rhythms
Week 7: “Music with a Message about our Time” power ballades lesson
TSWBAT relate music to history by studying the lyrics of a piece
from the last century; relate music to current society and politics
by studying lyrics from a “Green Day” piece; create lyrics that
personally meaningful.
Learn about music in the 60’s used as political protest and a
political statement piece by Green Day. Write your own lyrics to
a song that makes a statement about today. Add materials to
your journal.
Week 8: “Seize the Day” Musicals
TSWBAT discuss the making of the musical “Newsies” and how
reflects a period in American history.
Watch “Newsies” and the documentary about it. Add work to
your journal.
Week 9: Time Signatures
TSWBAT understand the spatial relationship of sound and time
by learning about time signatures and ostinato; compose
rhythmic “songs”.
Complete workbook pp.20-22
Week 10: Reading the Staff
TSWBAT identify and arrange the different pitches onto the
staff, and bring music to share with the class and explain how
the music they listen to speaks to them.
Complete workbook pp.23-47, bring your own music to share
with the class while you work. Journal: Music Notation
Week 11: “Kids on Broadway”
TSWBAT learn about the different vocations in music that
contribute to a Broadway musical by watching “Annie” and
the documentary about it.
Week 12: Concert Etiquette
TSWBAT demonstrate knowledge of concert etiquette at a
formal symphony concert and identify the different sections
of the orchestra
Field trip to the Symphony at Laurie Auditorium
Week 13: How to Sight-Sing
TSWBAT learn and perform the solfege scale and sightread and
compose melodies; learn and identify key signatures and intervals of the major scale.
Complete workbook pp.48-50 and G-major solfege page.
Week 14: Music and art of the middle ages
TSWBAT decifer identifying features of music and art from 4501450, and learn about the relationship of art and history.
Project: Soap Sculpture
Week 15: Music and art of the Renaissance
TSWBAT decifer identifying features of music and art from 14501600, and learn about the relationship of art and history.
Project: make a flute out of modeling clay.
Music and Art of the Baroque
TSWBAT decifer identifying features of music and art from 16001750, and learn about the relationship of art and history.
Watch “Bach’s Fight for Freedom”
Week 16: Finish Baroque Era, and begin Classical Era
TSWBAT decifer identifying features of music and art from 17501820, and learn about the relationship of art and history.
Watch opera “Manon”
Week 17: Finish Classical Era and learn Romantic Era
TSWBAT decifer identifying features of music and art from 18201900, and learn about the relationship of art and history.
View art and music of the Romantic Era
Project: write a story to “Danse Macabre” by Saint-Saens
Week 18: Music of the 20th Century and Today
TSWBAT decifer identifying features of music and art from 1900the present day, and learn about the relationship of art and
history.
Final week of class, study music from the era and take exam.
Music Appreciation
Class Overview
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Weekly Plan