Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
Choral MUSIC - Grade 7
The study of music is cumulative and sequential to include learning from previous grade levels. The focus areas for learning at this level include:
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Demonstrating appropriate expressive and technical vocal and instrumental practices
Demonstrating pitch and rhythmic accuracy
Reading and notating rhythmic and melodic patterns
Identifying and applying traditional symbols and terms and using appropriate terminology
Improvising, composing, and arranging music
Listening to, analyzing, and evaluating music
Developing understanding of music in relation to history, culture, and other content areas
Showing respect for the efforts of others
Strands: Creating, Performing, Responding, Understanding
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Standard and Objective
Priority
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Pacing
Key
Essential Questions
Academic What facts, concepts,
Vocabulary
skills need to be
learned
Instructional /
Learning
Resources and
Activities
(Differentiation)
Integration with
Other
Curriculum
Areas
(Differentiation)
*Teacher generated
charts and flashcards
*Wild and Wacky
Warmups
Math integration
+ fractions
Assessment
(Differentiation)
COMPETENCY GOAL 1: The learner will sing,
alone and with others, a varied repertoire of
music. (National Standard 1)
Objectives:
1.01 Sing consistently on pitch, with accurate
rhythm and proper breath control, in an appropriate
range.
E
Pitch, rhythm,
breath control,
posture
http://www.learnnc.org/
lessons/
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007
Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
1.02 Respond to the cues of a conductor.
1.03 Sing music of appropriate voicing, with
expression and technical accuracy.
1.04 Sing music representing diverse styles,
genres, and cultures.
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E
Preparatory
breath,downbeat,
cutoff, beat
patterns, cue
*Meter Madness
Treble, bass,
expression,
diction,
intonation
*District adopted
materials/textbooks
*State Music List
Harmony,
unison,
polyphony,
monophonic,
canon, round,
partner song
*A Round and a
Round
reflective writing on
http://www.learnnc.org/ a performance
lessons/
Writing critique of
performance
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
N
1.05 Show respect for the singing efforts of others.
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Additionally, for students participating in choral
classes:
1.06 Sing music written in two and three parts.
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
E
I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
www.lessonplanspage.com
www.peppermusic.com
www.Musick8.com
Writing
Prompt/Reflective
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007
Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
1.07 Sing music written in a variety of keys, meters,
and rhythms, in limited ranges.
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COMPETENCY GOAL 2: The learner will play on
instruments, alone and with others, a varied
repertoire of music. (National Standard 2)
Objectives:
2.01 Play at least one instrument with appropriate
posture, playing position, and technique.
2.02 Respond to the cues of a conductor.
2.03 Play music representing diverse styles,
genres, and cultures.
2.04 Play by ear simple melodies.
2.05 Show respect for the instrumental playing
efforts of others.
Additionally, for students participating in
instrumental classes:
2.06 Play on at least one instrument, music at an
appropriate and increasingly difficult level, with
expression and technical accuracy.
2.07 Play music written in a variety of keys, meters,
and rhythms in limited ranges.
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007
Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
COMPETENCY GOAL 3: The learner will
improvise melodies, variations, and
accompaniments. (National Standard 3)
N
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Objectives:
3.01 Improvise melodies and accompaniments.
N
3.02 Improvise melodic variations using major and
minor pentatonic and diatonic scales.
N
3.03 Improvise short melodies, unaccompanied
and over given rhythmic accompaniments.
I
3.04 Show respect for the improvisational efforts of
others.
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007
Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
COMPETENCY GOAL 4: The learner will
compose and arrange music within specified
guidelines. (National Standard 4)
Objectives:
4.01 Compose short pieces using the basic
elements of music to demonstrate tension and
release.
N
4.02 Create an arrangement of an existing
composition, using different voices and/or
instruments.
N
4.03 Use a variety of sound, notational, and
technological sources to compose and arrange
music.
E
4.04 Show respect for the composing and
arranging efforts of others.
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
Composer,
midi,
manuscript
*Composition in 7
Steps
www.lessonplanspage.com
*District adopted
materials/textbooks
Writing lyrics/poetry
for short composition
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
I
I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007
Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
COMPETENCY GOAL 5: The learner will read
and notate music. (National Standard 5)
Objectives:
5.01 Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth,
and dotted note and rest durations in 2/4, 2/4, 4/4,
6/8, and 2/2 meters.
5.02 Identify pitches in the treble and bass clefs.
5.03 Sightread pitch notation in the treble and bass
clefs.
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Whole, half,
quarter, eighth,
sixteenth and
dotted notes and
rests, beat, meter.
Time signature
Treble clef or G
clef, bass clef or F
clef, grand staff,
staff, ledger line
Sightread,
direction, key
signature,
intervals, steps,
skips
metronome
*Meter Madness
Math Games/Relays
http://www.learnnc.org/
lessons/
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
*Teacher generated
charts and flashcards
*www.musictheory.net
*Intervals, Scales and
Triads
www.lessonplanspage.com
Staff Spelling Game
Writing
Prompt/Reflective
writing
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
Singing Test
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007
Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
5.04 Identify standard notation symbols for pitch,
rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and
expression.
5.05 Use standard notation to record own musical
ideas and musical ideas of others.
E
Pitch, rhythm,
dynamics, tempo,
articulation,
expression
*District adopted
materials/textbooks
Writing/Reflective
Prompt
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
I
5.06 Show respect for the reading and notating
efforts of others.
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COMPETENCY GOAL 6: The learner will listen
to, analyze, and describe music. (National
Standard 6)
Objectives:
6.01 Discuss specific musical events in a given
aural example, using appropriate terminology.
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6.02 Discuss elements of music in aural examples
representing diverse genres and cultures.
N
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007
Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
6.03 Identify and discuss the basic principles of
meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals, chords, and
harmonic progressions in the analyses of music.
Major, minor,
augmented,
diminished, meter,
tempo, root, third,
fifth, octave,
intervals, harmonic
progression
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6.04 Demonstrate auditory perceptual skills by
conducting, moving, answering questions about,
and describing aural examples of music.
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6.05 Show respect while listening to and analyzing
music.
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*Musical Modes
www.lessonplanspage.com
*Teacher generated
charts and flashcards
*District adopted
materials/textbooks
Reflective
Writing/Writing
Prompt
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
COMPETENCY GOAL 7: The learner will
evaluate music and music performances.
(National Standard 7)
Objectives:
7.01 Devise criteria for evaluating the quality and
effectiveness of music performances and
compositions and apply criteria in personal
listening and performing.
7.02 Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of
compositions, arrangements, and improvisations by
applying specific criteria appropriate for the musical
style and offer constructive suggestions for
improvement.
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
E
Rhythmic
accuracy, posture,
diction, phrasing,
expression,
interpretation,
blend
Develop
Writing
teacher/student rubric prompt/reflective
www.rubistar.com
writing
MENC.orgadjudication forms
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
www.Geocities.com/hearchoirs
I
I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007
Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
7.03 Identify and describe how interacting musical
elements impact one's feelingful responses to
music.
7.04 Show respect for the musical efforts and
opinions of others.
N
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COMPETENCY GOAL 8: The learner will
understand relationships between music, the
other arts, and content areas outside the arts.
(National Standard 8)
Objectives:
8.01 Compare in two or more arts areas how the
characteristic elements of each art form can be
used to transform events, emotions, or ideas into
works of art.
8.02 Describe ways in which the concepts and
skills of other content areas taught in the school
including English Language Arts, Mathematics,
Science, and Social Studies are related to those of
music.
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E
Rhythm,
sound,
*Search math, language arts and
social studies connections
www.lessonplanspage.com
*District adopted
materials/textbooks
Writing
prompt/reflective
writing
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
8.03 Demonstrate the character traits of
responsibility, self-discipline, and perseverance
while informally or formally participating in music.
N
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007
Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
*Name that Style
COMPETENCY GOAL 9: The learner will
understand music in relation to history and
culture. (National Standard 9)
www.lessonplanspage.com
Objectives:
9.01 Discuss the distinguishing characteristics of
representative music genres and styles from a
variety of cultures.
9.02 Identify various exemplary musical
compositions and discuss characteristics that
cause each work to be considered exemplary.
9.03 Compare across several cultures of the world
and in history functions of music, roles of
musicians, and conditions under which music is
typically performed.
9.04 Show respect for music from various cultures
and historical periods.
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
E
Genre,
multicultural,
era, styles
*Music Styles
Website
http://magnatune.com
/genres/
*Teacher generated
charts and flashcards
*District adopted
materials/textbooks
Writing
prompt/reflective
writing
Weekly Classroom
PDSA
Common Formative
Assessment (CFA)
History correlation
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I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007
Iredell-Statesville Schools Instructional Guides
MUSIC – Grade 7
Useful Choral Websites
www.peppermusic.com
www.acdaonline.org
www.menc.org
www.musick8.com
E – Essential
N – Nice to Know
Resources Code: TB – Textbook
Priority Code:
I – Important
M – Maintenance
RR – Resource Room
EC#: Essential Curriculum (1 to 10 KEY Concepts Identified in PLC each semester)
A – 1st Semester
B – 2nd Semester
Updated: 06/2007