Lesson Repertoire continuation: Homeward Bound, Hush!

September 21st 2017-

Date
Title/Focus Somebodys Callin My Name Thursday
Subject/Grad Time
Choral 6 50 minutes (10:45-11:35)
e Level Duration
Introduction to Sight Singing, Theory, and
Unit Teacher Ms.Falkenberg
Performance in the Classroom

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General Music
Learning 1. Through the elementary music program, students will develop: an enjoyment of music,
Outcomes: insights into music through musical activities and musical skills and knowledge.
Specific Music
Learning 1. 1.23. Develop musical interpretation: awareness of the meaning of a song through its
Outcomes: words (text).
2. 1.26. Extend vocal development to include phrasing, enunciation and expression.
3. 1.28. Sing songs written in a variety of scales.
4. 1.29. Extend vocal development to include stressing in tune (accurate) part singing.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

ASSESSMENTS
Observations: How well do students listen and sing back the melody of a song?
Can students read music?
Key Questions: How does our warm up help us sing our repertoire better?
How can we incorporate phrasing, dynamics?
Can we clap the rhythms as written?
Products/Performances: Students will be able to sing through the first 18 measures of each piece
confidently, as well as learn new music.
LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
Alberta Programs of Study
Warm-Ups
Repertoire for 24 students: Homeward Bound arr. Jay
Althouse, Hush! Somebodys Callin My Name arr. Rollo
Dilworth

PROCEDURE
Introduction Time
Agenda 1. Attendance
2. Warm-Ups-as a class. 1 mins
3. Repertoire work
Time
Learning Activity #1 10
1. Throw Catch warm-up song. Teach them this through rote.
mins
Assessments/ Differentiation: Observations
Learning Activity #2 Homeward Bound arr. Jay Althouse
Sing through from beginning until the end. Students should be
confident from measures 45, and then 45 through to the end will 15
be sight singing. mins
Based on listening, if students need more work on the
beginning/middle section go back to the beginning and work
1

Assessments/ Differentiation
Learning Activity #3
Assessments/ Differentiation
Assessment of Learning:
Feedback To Students
Transition To Next Lesson
Reflections from the
lesson
through parts.
Move on to measures 45 through to the end singing once
together to assess the students sight singing and listening in
their sections.
Go through each section separately on their own, together with
no piano, and then together with the accompaniment.
Work on the ending and make sure that students are together
and watching my direction with the fermata.
Try running through the piece as a whole.
Really work on phrasing, dynamics, and intonation of text today.
Observations
Hush! Somebodys Callin My Name arr. Rollo Dilworth
Review what was learned last class. Measures 1-53, then
continue on sight singing measures 53 through to the end.
Based on listening, if students need more work on the
beginning/middle sections and go back to the beginning and
work through parts.
Move on to measures 53 through to the end singing once
together to assess the students sight singing and listening in
15
their sections because this is the first time harmony comes in.
mins
Go through each section separately on their own, together with
no piano, and then together with the accompaniment.
Go through the rhythms and clap them as a class if needed.
Work through the chord progression at the very end of the piece.
Spend some time solidifying each sections note and making sure
they are confident with their own part.
Try beginning to end with piano accompaniment, being aware of
what sections need tuning up next week.
Observations
Closure Time
Observation of student voices and blending-observations. 2 mins
1
Continuation of repertoire tomorrow.
minute