Theresa Huiber

25 March 2015
Galesburg-Augusta Middle School

Lesson Plan for Intern Observation

Objectives:
I can warm up on #86 and #87 at varying tempos, and
choose different dynamics and styles each time, defining
them before performing them.
I can assess whether or not I am playing in time with the
metronome when I warm up and when I practice my concert
music. I can adjust this by tapping my foot, singing or
clapping the rhythm, or slowing the rhythm down.
I can play lip slurs starting on concert B-flat in half and whole
notes.
I can sight read my spring concert piece, Big Rock Candy
Mountain to gain a basic understanding of the notes, rhythm,
and musicality of the piece.
Opening set:
Students begin each lesson with warm up on #86 and #87 in
the Essential Elements book one. Since this group is all brass
and percussion, brass includes lip slurs in their warm up (for
embouchure building) and percussion warm up on mallets
(for note reading, rolling, etc). In order to include review in
each warm up, we add a dynamic and a style (chosen by the
students) each time we play the exercises, reviewing the
definitions of terms such as piano, staccato, forte, mezzo
forte, accented, legato, etc.
Body of Lesson:

Students will have a pseudo-sight reading session with Big

Rock Candy Mountain. They have never played it before but
are currently working on another piece from the Standard of
Excellence: First Performance series. Students will look at
key signature, notes (checking if there are any notes they do
not know), fingerings, slide positions, and rhythms. We will
sing and finger (singer) through chunks of music, and will
aim to play all together after hearing each sections part in
order to put the different parts together (the biggest
challenge about this music is that they are not all on the
same part, so we listen to each sections part while singing
and fingering, and then play together in order to reduce
confusion from not understanding what we are hearing).
Closing Set:
A run-through of everything we have gotten through so far in
Big Rock Candy Mountain, aiming to play correct notes and
rhythms and gain a basic understanding of the piece and
what needs to be focused on in practice time.