Timeframe

Content

Concept

Skills

Assessment

National Standards

Sept. - Dec

 

Unit 1 – Music Moves Me

Unit 2 – Music Helps Me Learn

Duration

·   Beat/Meter

 

·   Rhythm

Identify:

·     Beat

·     Maintain a steady beat

·     Identify two eighth notes, quarter note and eighth note and a dotted quarter note

·     Perform rhythmic clapping

·Classroom observation

·Listening

·Worksheets

·Art

·Music Theory

·Discussion

·Quizzes from Text

·Participation

·   Sing in a group

·   Respond to the beat through music

·   Sing expressively

·   Identify music from various cultures

·   Listen to ABA form

·   Use appropriate terminology in explaining two tempos, sections, and beat

·   Identify sound of violin

·   Identify sounds of voices

·   Sing with correct posture, breathing and tempo

·   Sing maintaining a steady tempo

·   Identify and interpret dynamic terms

·   Sing songs from various cultures

 

Pitch

·   Melody

 

 

·   Harmony

·   Tonality Major/Minor

 

Listen for:

·     Singing a melody, higher and lower

·     Sing an octave interval

·     Identify harmony ostinato

·     Introduce major and pentatonic

Design

·   Texture

·   Form/Structure

 

Introduce:

·     Texture

·     Introduce ABA form and sections

Tone Color

 

 

Vocal/Instrumental

Introduce:

·     Sound of voice

·     Higher/lower registry

·     Identify brass instruments

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics

 

·   Tempo

 

·   Articulation

Introduce:

·   P, mp, mf, softer and louder

·   Introduce tempo, fast – slow, steady beat

·   Introduce articulation

Cultural Context

·   Styles/background

Music styles

·   Sing styles of music

·   Japanese, English African American

Nov – Dec.

 

Cultural Christmas Program

 

·   Performance

 

 

Jan – Feb.

Unit  3 – Friends and Fun

Duration

·   Beat/Meter

 

 

·   Rhythm

Identify beat

·      Maintain steady beat

·      Introduce 2/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meters

·      Identify quarter note, quarter note, quarter note, eighth note, and two eighth notes

·      Classroom observation

·      Listening

·      Worksheets

·      Art

·      Music Theory

·      Discussion

·      Quizzes from Text

·      Participation

·   Sing in a group

·   Sing on pitch and maintain a steady beat

·   Identify the sounds of instruments

·   Use a system to read pitch notation

·   Sing songs from diverse cultures

·   Sing independently

·   Echo short melodic patterns

·   Identify the sounds of various instruments and voices

·   Read symbols for rhythm

Pitch

·   Melody

 

 

 

 

·   Harmony

 

·   Tonality major/minor

Learn to:

·      Describe melody

·      Show pitch contour

·      Sing lower to higher melody and higher to lower melody

·      Identify harmony, ostinato

·      Recognize major and Pentatonic

Design

·   Texture

·   Form/structure

Learn:

·     Introduce glissondo

·     Introduce echo form, and ABA

Tone Color

·   Vocal/instrumental

Recognize:

·      Instrumental tone color

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics

·   Tempo

·   Articulation

Learn to:

·      Recognize p, mp, mf

·      Recognize steady tempo

·      Introduce articulation

Cultural Context

·   Styles/Background

Recognize waltz, sing Puerto Rican, African, Mexican, English Korean Chinese, Welsh music

Feb/March

 

Cultural Spring Program

 

·   Performance

·   Critique Performance

 

March

Unit  4 – Around the Town

Duration

·   Beat/Meter

·   Rhythm

Learn to:

·      To identify strong and weak beat

·      Recognize one and two sounds to a beat

·   Classroom observation

·   Listening

·   Worksheets

·   Art

·   Music Theory

·   Discussion

·   Quizzes from Text

·   Participation

·  Sing in a group

·  Keep the beat steady

·  Perform easy rhythmic patterns

·  Move in response to music

·  Sin with appropriate dynamics

·  Sing songs from diverse cultures

·  Sing with appropriate dynamics

·  Describe dynamics with appropriate terms

·  Sing on pitch and in rhythm

Pitch

·   Melody

 

·   Harmony

 

 

 

·   Tonality major/minor

Identify

·      Melody and so – mi pattern

·      Introduce drone accompaniment (for drums)

·      Reinforce definition of harmony

·      Reinforce major and pentatonic

Design

·   Texture

 

 

·   Form/Structure

 

Reinforce:

·      Texture

·      Introduce lip buzzing and tremolo

·      Reinforce form, same/different sections

Tone Color

·   Vocal/Instrumental

Recognize:

·      Vocal tone color

·      Reinforce louder/softer

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics

·   Tempo

 

·   Articulation

Reinforce:

·      Song/poem dynamics

·      Reinforce tempo and slower to faster

·      Reinforce expression

Cultural Context

·   Style/Background

·      Sing songs from Paramanian, South Africa, French, Hungarian, Brazilian and England

April

Unit 5 – The Sounds Around Us

Duration

·   Beat/Meter

 

·   Rhythm

 

Introduce:

·      Beat of silence

·      Reinforce 2/4, ľ, 4/4

·      Reinforce one and two sounds to a beat and beat of silence

·      Reinforce one and two sounds to a beat

·      Reinforce quarter not and eighth note

·   Classroom observation

·   Listening

·   Worksheets

·   Art

·   Music Theory

·   Discussion

·   Quizzes from Text

·   Participation

·        Sing in group

·        Perform in rhythm and maintain a steady beat

·        Sing songs from diverse cultures

·        Respond to music with movement

·        Identify music forms

·        Identify sounds of various instruments

·        Describe music from various cultures

·        Sing on pitch and in rhythm

·        Read quarter note, eighth notes, and quarter rest in ionic pattern

Pitch

·   Melody

 

·   Harmony

 

·   Tonality major/minor

Reinforce:

·      Melody, higher and lower

·      Reinforce definition of harmony

·      Reinforce major and pentatonic

Design

·   Texture

·   Form

Recognize:

·      Duet, aria, opera, and tremolo

·      Introduce repeated section

·      Same/different sections

·      A BACA BA ABA

Tone Color

·   Vocal/Instrumental

Learn and Recognize:

·      Percussion instruments, brass instruments

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics

 

·   Tempo

 

·   Articulation

Recognize

·      Louder and softer

·      Gradually louder and softer

·      Reinforce tempo and steady tempo

·      Introduce detached sounds

Cultural Context

·   Style/Background

Learn:

·      Songs from Brazil, Russia, Israli, Afro-American cultures

May

Unit  6 –Animals, Animals, Animals

Duration

·   Beat/Meter

 

 

·    Rhythm

Identify:

·      Reinforce 6/8 meter and 4/4 meter

·      Reinforce beat of silence

·      One sound to a beat

·   Classroom observation

·   Listening

·   Worksheets

·   Art

·   Music Theory

·   Discussion

·   Quizzes from text

·   Participation

·        Sing in a group

·        Sing independently and on pitch

·        Use appropriate terminology in explaining music

·        Read rhythm

·        Notate rhythm

·        Move to music

·        Echo short patterns

Pitch

·   Melody

 

·   Harmony

·   Tonality major/minor

 

Reinforce:

·      Low, high, and higher

·      So-La-So-Mi Motive

·      Reinforce harmony

·      Reinforce major and pentatonic

Design

·   Texture

·   Form/Structure

 

Learn:

·      To reinforce definition of texture

·      Reinforce echo, mirroring, ABA form

Tone Color

·   Vocal/Instrumental

Identify:

·      Percussion instruments

Expressive Qualities

·   Dynamics

·   Tempo

·   Articulation

Recognize

·      Reinforce dynamics

·      Reinforce tempo

·      Reinforce smooth and detached

Cultural Context

·   Style/Background

Learn:

·      Sing songs from French, South African, Spanish, German, English, Native American cultures