24 Jan 14 - UBC Education - 35762103
Instructor Name: Jeremiah De La Pena
General Music Unit Plan
Grade(s): 9
School: Earl Marriott Secondary
Unit Topic: Film and Television Music
Unit Overview: This unit will focus primarily on listening to film music and understanding emotion along with using musical terms that reflect the music. Students will be
assessed on a listening quiz at the end of this unit.
I.R.P: Structure (Expression), (Thoughts, Images, and Feelings), Context (Historical and Cultural)
Lesson
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Lesson Topic
Objectives
(no more than 3)
Activities to meet objectives
Materials
(active learning, variety of rates
of development, individual and
social process)
Formative Assessment
what methods will you use?
Lord of the Rings
Symphony
Given recordings and a discussion
on the music being played, the
students will be introduced on
Recordings of the Music from Lord of
listening to music as well as being
the Rings.
aware of the emotion that reflects the
music.
1). Listen to the music. 2) Since this is an
intro class, we will be discussing some
"why's" about the music.
Harry Potter
Given recordings from "Harry
Potter," and terms about emotion,
the student will apply terms that
relate to emotion that reflect the
music of "Harry Potter."
1) Students will listen to the music 2)
Students will present to the class what
Students will then work in groups to look up
terms relfect Harry Potter and how it
the musical terms and get five terms that
reflects the music that they are playing.
reflect the music.
James Bond
Given recordings from James Bond
Films, a discussion on the history of
the film, the student will examine the Recordings from the James Bond
music of James Bond from a
films.
historical aspect understanding the
emotions from the different era's.
1) Students will listen to the music 2)
Students will be working in pairs to look up
the history of a particular film and try to
decipher the emotion felt during the era of
the film.
Students will be presenting the movie
that they were given to demonstrate they
can apply musical terms that relate to
emotion.
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Mission Impossible and
Review
Given the theme song from Mission
Impossible by Lalo Schifrin, the
Recording of the theme from Mission
students will be able to define terms Impossible.
that relate to emotion in the tv show.
1) Students will listen to the music 2)
Students will be applying terms learned
from previous classes to define and apply
terms that relate to Mission Impossible. 3)
Students will also be doing a review to
prepare for the Listening Quiz.
Students will be writing a quizlett that
will not count for marks but will prepare
them for the Listening Quiz for the next
class.
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Listening Quiz
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Recordings of the music from Harry
Potter, worksheet with music terms.
Students will be assessed on a Listening Quiz