ELMS Curriculum Map for: 7th and 8th Grade Music Appreciation
Unit 1
Semester 1 and 2 (9 week course)
Unit 2.9
Unit 3.1
Unit 3.2
Name: What is
music and Why
study It?
Time frame: 2-4
days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.c.
Name: Texture and
Style
Name: The Middle
Ages
Time frame: 2 days
Time frame: 5 days. Time frame: 5 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.6.b.
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.a.b.
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.a.b.
KUDs
Know: How music
is used in our
culture. Why it’s
important to learn
about music
Understand: Music
exists to enrich our
lives.
KUDs
Know: Three
textures of music
KUDs
Know: Gregorian
Chant was used in
the Roman Catholic
Church.
Understand:
Texture of music
has changed through
the style periods.
Do: Listen to
examples.
Understand: The
music in the church
service.
KUDs
Know: Polyphony
replaces
monophony. New
forms of music are
composed.
Understand: The
major categories of
music: sacred and
secular..
Do: Listen to
examples.
Vocabulary: None
Vocabulary:
monophonic,
polyphonic,
homophonic
Vocabulary: sacred, Vocabulary:
secular, Gregorian
composers,
Chant, monophony
dynamics, tone
color, rhythm,
madrigal
Performance Task:
Music Basics
Performance Task:
Worksheet 2.9
Performance Task:
Worksheet 3.1
Notes: Active
discussion in classes
Notes: Today’s
music is mostly
homophonic.
Notes: Gregorian
Notes: Education
chants are
includes musical
monophonic.
training.
Education for clergy
and nobility.
Do: Questionnaire
Do: Listen to
examples.
Name: The
Renaissance Era
Performance Task:
Worksheet 3.2
ELMS Curriculum Map for: 7th and 8th Grade Music Appreciation
Unit 3.3
Semester 1 and 2 (9 week course)
Unit 3.4
Unit Commercial
Unit 3.5
Name: The
Baroque Era
Time frame: 5 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.a.b.
Name: The
Classical Era
Time frame: 5
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.a.b.
Name: Create a
Commercial
Time frame: 5 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.c.
Name: The
Romantic Era
Time frame: 5 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.a.b.
KUDs
Know:
Characteristics of
Baroque music and
major composers.
Understand: Bach
and Handel were
major contributors
as composers.
KUDs
Know:
Characteristics of
Classical music and
major composers.
Understand: Haydn,
Mozart and
Beethoven were
major contributors
as composers.
KUDs
Know: Music is
used in commercials
to create interest in
a new product.
Understand:
Students will write a
35-60 second
commercial.
Do: Listen to music
examples.
Do: Listen to music
examples.
Do: Use 2 music
selections from
different styles eras.
KUDs
Know:
Characteristics of
Romantic music and
major composers.
Understand: Music
show much
emotion,
imagination,
individualism and
expression.
Do: Listen to music
examples.
Vocabulary: opera
Vocabulary:
syncopation,
homophony,
prodigy, crescendo,
decrescendo.
Vocabulary:
background music,
jingle
Vocabulary:
accelerando,
ritardando, program
music, nationalism
Performance Task:
Worksheet 3.3
Performance Task:
Worksheet 2.9
Performance Task:
Perform the
commercial for the
class.
Performance Task:
Worksheet 3.5
Notes: Opera was
created during this
era. Action and
movement is
important in art
forms.
Notes: Return to
classical art forms
of the Greek and
Romans. Simplicity
is important.
Notes View and
discuss
commercials..
Notes New music
created, old music
recreated. Much
diversity in music.
ELMS Curriculum Map for: 7th and 8th Grade Music Appreciation
Unit 3.7
Semester 1 and 2 (9 week course)
Unit 4
Name: Popular Era
Time frame: 4 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.a.b.
Name: Opera/Musical
Time frame: 6days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.a.c.
KUDs
Know: Characteristics of
popular music.
KUDs
Know: Opera was
entertainment for the
wealthy/royalty.
Understand: Musicals
were derived from opera.
A form of entertainment
created by the middle
class..
Do: Watch a musical.
Understand: Music is
very diverse and an
important part of our lives
Do: Listen to music
examples.
Vocabulary: syncopation,
polyrhythm
Vocabulary: opera,
musical
Performance Task:
Worksheet 3.8
Performance Task: Test
Notes: Music from 1900
to today.
Notes: Discussion of
storyline.