Timeframe

Content

Concept

Skills

Assessment

National Standards

Sept. - Dec

 

Unit 1 – Together through Music

Unit 2 – Musical Friends

Duration

·    Beat/Meter

·   Rhythm

Experience, practice and sing to explore a steady beat.

·      Identify quarter note, two eighth notes, quarter rest, meter and meter signature

·Classroom observation

·Listening

·Worksheets

·Art

·Music Theory

·Discussion

·Quizzes from Text

·Participation

·   Sing in rhythm and maintain steady beat

·   Use appropriate terminology to describe music

·   Move to show musical characteristics

·   Sing on pith

·   Read note in treble clef

·   Move to show melodic direction

·   Read rhythms

·   Notate rhythm

·   Perform independently while others sing contrasting part

·   Sing with appropriate dynamics

·   Sing as a group

·   Define 2/4 meter

·   Sing popular American Song

·   Describe verse and refrain form

·   Sing call and response song

·   Identify A B form

·   Read quarter note and rest eighth note pairs

 

 



 

Pitch

·   Melody

 

Identify

·     Higher and lower pitches, so, mi, treble clef

Design Texture

 

·   Form

 

Identify echo, harmony, unison

·     ABA, call and response, AB question – answer phrases, dol segno al fine

Tone Color

·    Vocal/Instrumental

 

 

Identify and Recognize:

·     Brass versus voice

·     Body percussion

·     Identify strings

·     Trumpet

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics

·   Tempo



·   Articulation

Learning to Identify and Recognize:

·   Dynamics – loud and soft, forte and piano

·   Changing tempo, faster tempo, steady tempo, fast, slow

·   Accent, staccato, attached detached, duration is smooth/detached

Cultural Context

Music styles

·   African American Spirituals, ballet, clog dancing, concerto

 

Nov – Dec.

 

Cultural Christmas Concert

 

 

Develop confidence in performing for an audience

 

·   Performance

·   Critiquing video of performance

 

Jan – Feb.

Unit  3 – Our Musical World

Duration

·   Beat/Meter

 

·   Rhythm

Experience, Practice, Sing

·      Explore a steady beat and movement

·      Quarter, 2 eighths and a quarter note, half note rests, and a half note

·   Classroom observation

·   Listening

·   Worksheets

·   Art

·   Music Theory

·   Discussion

·   Quizzes from Text

·   Participation

·   Sing appropriately and expressively dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation

·   Identify male voice

·   Sing with steady beat

·   Read rhythms

·   Identify sounds of instruments

·   Sing ostinatos

·   Sing in group

·   Identify so mi do

·   Read half note

·   More to music

·   Read notes in treble clef

Pitch

·   Melody

Identify:

·      High, low, middle pitches

Design
 

·   Textures

 

·   Form/Structure

Learn to Identify and Recognize: 

·     Do, so mi do, do mi so patterns

·     Echo, unison, unaccompanied song, solo group

·     Call/response

Tone Color

·   Vocal/Instrumental

Identify

·   Speaking/singing

·   Recognize pipe organ

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics

·   Tempo

 

·   Articulation

Recognize:

·       Soft – loud, crescendo, decrescendo

·      Fast/Slow, faster, changing tempo

·      Smooth – Detached, explore accent, staccato

Cultural Context

·   Style/Background

Identify:

·      Fanfare, calypso

·      African instruments

·      Chinese instruments

Feb. – Mar.

Cultural

Spring Program

Develop confidence in performing for an audience

·   Performance

·   Watching performance

 

March

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit  4 – Your Turn, My Turn

Duration

·   Beat/Meter

 

·   Rhythm

Identify sounds lasting three beats

·      3/9 meter, maintain steady beat

·      Half note rest, half note, dotted half note quarter note, dotted half note

·   Classroom observation

·   Listening

·   Worksheets

·   Art

·   Music Theory

·   Discussion

·   Quizzes from Text

·   Participation

·   Sing with steady tempo and proper vocal technique

·   Sing in groups and on pitch

·   Read meter signatures

·   Listen and describe music

·   Sing folk songs

·   Read pitch notation

·   Read rhythms

·   Identify dynamic symbols

·   Identify musical forms

·   Do movements to music

·   Identify male and female voices

·   Use appropriate terminology to describe music

 

 

 

Pitch

·   Melody

Identify

·      Re, Re, Do, Do, Mi, So, La

Design
 

·   Texture

·   Form/Structure

Learning to Identify and Recognize:

·      Solo, group, echo

·      Call and response A B form.  Question and answer.

Tone Color

·   Vocal/instrumental

Recognize

·   Male choir

·   Brass instruments

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics


·   Tempo

·   Articulation

Recognize

·      Loud and soft, crescendo and decrescendo

·      Steady beat, ritardando

·      Attached/detached, experience accents

Cultural Context

·   Styles/background

Learn:

·      Puerto Rican, minuet, opera, aria, duet

April

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit  5 – The Music In Us!

 

 

 

 

 

Duration

·   Beat/Meter

 

 

·   Rhythm

 

Identify:

·      Maintain steady beat

·       Explore 2 & 3 sounds to a beat

·      2 over a quarter note, dotted quarter note, quarter note, quarter rest

·      Classroom observation

·      Listening

·      Worksheets

·      Art

·      Music Theory

·      Discussion

·      Quizzes from Text

·      Participation

·  Sing maintaining steady tempo with good vocal technique

·  Perform a canon

·  Sing a folk song

·  Read rhythms

·  Identify sounds of instruments

·  Sing in groups

·  Read pitches

·  Identify simple musical forms

·  Use appropriate terminology in explaining music

·  Read pitches

·  Move to music

·  Sing descant

Pitch

·   Melody

 

Learn:

·      Pentatonic scale, treble clef, Mi, So, La, Do Re Mi

Design

·   Texture

 

·   Form/Structure

Recognize:

·      Pentatonic chants, echo sing, unison

·      Verse/refrain, do ri mi phrases

Tone Color

·   Vocal/instrumental

·      Identify:

·       Trombone sound

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics

 

·   Tempo

 

·   Articulation

Learn:

·      Loud/Soft dynamic

 

·      Ritardando changing tempo

·      Identify glusando

Cultural Context

·   Styles/Background

Identify:

·      Folk music, calypso, Latin American music, Chinese music

May

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit 6 – Everything Grows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duration

·   Beat/Meter

 

·   Rhythm

 

Identify:

·      2 over quarter note maintain steady beat

·      Triplet dotted quarter note, quarter note, eighth note and triplet

·   Classroom observation

·   Listening

·   Worksheets

·   Art

·   Music Theory

·   Discussion

·   Quizzes from Text

·   Participation

 

 

 

 

 

·  Sing maintaining steady tempo

·  Identify form of a song

·  Sing in groups

·  Read rhythm

·  Sing in a group on pitch and rhythm

·  Identify pentatonic scale

·  Identify and compare sounds of male adult and male children’s voices

·  Read pitches

·  Identify the sounds of instruments

·  Read pitches, identify steps, skips, leaps, and repeated pitches

 

 

Pitch

·   Melody

Learn to Identify:

·      Do Re Mi, pentatonic, high/low, steps, skips, leaps

Design

·   Texture

 

·   Form/Structure

 

Recognize:

·      Individual singing, solo/group, harmony

·      AB form, fermata, Rondo, AAA, ABA, ABA CA, call and response

Tone Color

·   Vocal/instrumental

Identify

·      Relative pitch

·      Recognize orchestral instrument families

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics

 

·   Tempo

 

·   Articulation

Learn:

·      Loud and soft, crescendo/decrescendo

·      Steady beat, slow tempo, faster tempo

·      Attached/detached, experience accent

 

 

Cultural Context

·   Style

·   Background

Music styles

·      Aria, Rondo

·      African music, Native American music