Music Year 8 Periods 2a & 2b Period 4a & 4b

(10.44-11.51am) (1.53-3.00pm)

Film Music Week 5 Tuesday 2 Nov Thursday 4th Nov

2010 2010

Lesson The activities in this lesson will prepare students for their Unit Test later in
Objective the term.

Materials and Resources

- Projector and laptop with cables
- Honour To Us All Sheet music: enough copies for all students
- Whiteboard and markers
- Keyboards
- Musical Elements Worksheets: enough copies for all students

Procedures

Time Activities Purpose

5 Line students up. Mark the roll.

5 Refer to rhythms written on the whiteboard and instruct students to Rhythmic

copy them in their notebooks. Go through rhythm values. Revision

10 Teach students to sing No One In the House But Dinah Rhythmic

- Students sing melody and words Dictation
- Students sing and stamp crotchet beats
- Students sing and clap the rhythm of the melody
- Students have to draw bars of rhythmic dictation in their notebooks
- Students say rhythm names and clap 1 bar at a time before writing
rhythms down

(Next lesson: add melody)

Time Activities Purpose

5 Distribute sheet music to Honor to Us All. Audiation

Instruct students to clap the rhythms.

List the notes contained in the song (in letter names and in solfa)
and relate to pentatonic scale. Draw 2 ladders on the whiteboard of
the pentatonic scale (letter names and solfa side by side).

Sing pentatonic scale. Have students sight sing by reading hand

signs.

Instruct students consider that C=Do, therefore the starting note is

G=So. Students have to use hand signs in time (of Honour to Us
All), and then sing the solfa in time.

10 Inform students about the background of the Mulan movie, and the Relates
scene. Before playing the DVD, instruct students to pay attention to to one
the musical elements used to create the setting of the movie. function
of film
Play the DVD: Scene 4. music

5 Display a list of musical elements on the projector and discuss what Revision
each of them means. for the
test
Distribute Musical Elements Worksheet. Instruct students to glue
into their books and set as HW task. Inform students that their HW
will be checked in the next lesson.

15 Inform students that they will learn how to improvise a 2-bar Reinforci
pentatonic melody using only the black keys of the piano. ng the
pentatoni
Get Mr. Mintoʼs assistance in playing an ostinato on the piano, and c scale;
demonstrate how to improvise a 2 bar melody. fostering
creativity
Direct students to keyboards--1 keyboard per person--and students
have to improvise 2 bars in turn, according to the ostinato provided.
Rotate students.

Direct students to tidy up and pack away before dismissing the

class.