VMRC Intergenerational Choir

Rehearsal Number _2__: Schedule and General Lesson Plan:

(50 x minutes = 30.9 min. = Golden Mean of the Class = Harder stuff before
this!)

1. LESSON # 1: NAME: Ailish Hall (7 minute lesson)

REHEARSAL THREADS: Rhythm and Run, fix, run

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: To chant hard rhythms and fix things that need to be fixed

Assessment Strategies:
Throughout this rehearsal I will engage in formal assessment by: checking off each activity mastered in lesson

Throughout this rehearsal I will engage in informal assessment by: listening to the choir and gauging that, fix
the problems I hear.

Start Timings Activity or Piece Developmental Hierarchy Differentiations

Time Totals Level/Chunks, Plan and Sequence

Time: (1/7 minutes) Activity 1: Chunk 1: Welcome and Goals

Welcome & Goals

Activity 1: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:

Chunk 1: Welcome and Goals

1s. Good Morning VMRC!

2v. Good Morning

1a. My rehearsal threads and goals for today are to chant hard rhythms and run, fix, run
the piece. The goals and objectives are to chant and fix any problems that are in the piece!

TRANSITION WITH: 1d. Please echo me: (or just start singing!)

Time (2/3/7 minutes) Activity 2: Chant Chunk 1: Chanting

rhythms Chunk 2: More chanting

Activity 2: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:

Chunk 1: Chanting
1a. “Copy me please” tap chest while chanting words (1st 4 measures)
2v Choir echos
1a. *Chant next 4 measures Wind it forward:
2v. Choir echos Singing while
tapping it
1a. Next 4 measures
2v Choir echos Wind it back:
1a. then last 4 measures - Just
2v. Choir echos tapping
rhythm
(silently),
then have
3sra. Wonderful job with tapping the rhythm while simultaneously chanting the words! them chant
it with text

TRANSITION WITH: 3sra. Great job! Let’s now move to our run, fix, run part of the rehearsal!

Time: (3/6/7min) Activity 3: Run, fix, Chunk 1: Run

run Chunk 2: Fix
Chunk 3 Run

Activity 3: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:

Chunk 1: Run piece

1a. “Let’s run it now on text!” Wind it back:
2v. Choir performs Echoing me on
tricky
Chunk 2: Fix rhythms/melodies.
1a. “Let’s fix this part of the piece…”
2v. Choir fixes whatever they need to fix
1a. “Let’s fix this section now!”
2v. They fix it

Chunk 3: Run Wind it forward:

1a. “Let’s run the piece again!” Add dynamics in
2v. Choir performs conducting for run.
And having them
fix it the first time.
3sra. WOW! You did so well with fixing those problem spots!

TRANSITION WITH: Great work! Let’s summarize our learning for today!
Time: (1/7/7minutes) Activity 5: Chunk 1: Reviewing rehearsal threads
Learning Summary and goals
Chunk 2: Transfer

Activity 5: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:

Chunk 1: Reviewing rehearsal threads and goals

1a. My rehearsal threads and goals for today were to chant the hard rhythms and run, fix, run the
piece or fix any problem spots we had!

We very clearly met those goals, as we did great work on our chants as well as fixing the
piece!

Chunk 2: Transfer and continuation

1a/1d. Let’s transfer all of this great learning to our next conductor’s work and to next week!