DIFFERENTIATED LESSON PLAN Level: 7th Grade Art Lesson: Music Integration

The objective of the lesson is let music be the inspiration in the students drawing. Seeing as how both music and art are relatable in terms of self expression, this lesson would focus on getting to know your students better as well as allowing you (the educator) to see what your students connect or relate to. The students will be asked to pick their favorite song or a quote that they can relate to. With this, they will draw the moment of the lyrics and explain how that moment of line of the song relates to their life. Some questions asked to the students would be how does the music make you feel? / what do you visualize when you hear the song? / what does this line remind you of? To differentiate this lesson for lower level students, such as students in special education, this lesson could easily be an exercise for students to express how theyre feeling. An example of this would be to play a song with a very specific emotion (e.g., the first movement of Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven to express sadness or the 3rd movement to express a sense of hurry and apprehension) and have the students draw what they feel. Not only does this lesson gives the student freedom to draw what they please, the educator would get to see what makes the students sad, happy, etc. based off their reaction to the music. To differentiate this lesson for upper level students, such as the gifted/talented, this lesson could be altered to allow students to think more critically about their work. If simply drawing a scene from the lyrics is too easy, the students could use the physical lyrics of the song to create an image. That is to say the students will use the words of the song to create a figurative, or abstracted, representation of the meaning of the lyrics used.