Lander University Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template Rev.

2013
Teacher Candidate: Kayla Goldman Lesson # 1
Subject/Grade: Choral Music (Beginning Chorus 1) Mostly 9
th
grader
Date and Time of Lesson: 9/18/14 10:35 am

Learning Objective:

In this lesson the students will be expected to participate in warm ups focusing on solfege and correct vowel sounds, as
well as learning the note names of the treble staff and be able to identify them when given. The students will be given a
note name crossword puzzle to complete and turn in to demonstrate their understanding of the concept.

Alignment with Standards:

Standard 1: The student will sing and perform on instruments a variety of music, alone and with others.
MCH1-1.1 Echo simple rhythmic and melodic patterns.
MCH1-1.2 Sing independently with accurate intonation and in rhythm, using appropriate timbre,
diction, breath control, and good posture while maintaining a steady tempo
Standard 3: The student will read and notate music.
MCH1-3.3 Identify symbols and traditional terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation and
interpret them correctly when performing. (Not necessarily referring to dynamics, tempo and articulation but
learning symbols, note names, to interpret when reading music.)

Developmental Appropriateness or Cross-curricular connections:

The learning objectives chosen are appropriate in terms of prerequisite knowledge because students need a
foundation of how to identify notes on the staff before learning to read music. This is a basic skill and my
students are in beginning chorus, therefore, they should have a grasp on this concept.



Assessment(s) of the Objectives:

Lesson Objective(s) Assessment(s) of the
Objective(s)
Use of Formative
Assessment
Warm ups The students ability to echo
what I do correctly with pitch
accuracy.
I will use this assessment
data to inform future
instruction by using these
concepts to help students
build new skills over time.
For students that do not
have pitch accuracy, I will
move them to a place in
the choir next to a singer
that has strong pitch
accuracy so that the non-
accurate student will be
able to hear the correct
pitches and be able to
identify the correct
pitches.
Note identification Treble clef note reading
crossword puzzle
Lander University Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template Rev. 2013

Accommodations:

For slow paced learners, I will try to individually help them or be available for them to ask questions. Fast paced learners
will be asked to get their notebooks out and be looking at their music to get ready for rehearsal. This class has a few
students with IEPs and they are in preferential seating already. The students will be given a date to turn in their music
notebooks for a notebook check that is graded every 4 weeks, and if the students need more time to complete the
assignment, according to their IEP, they have until the notebook check to finish. This way, if they dont understand the
content, they can come to me for extra help as well as having the extended deadline to complete the assignment.



Materials: Materials needed for this lesson include all of the following:
Piano, white board, markers, worksheet for students and pencils.

Procedures:

I will begin the lesson with asking the students to stand. We will stretch together and stand with correct posture to
begin singing. Our first warm up will be singing solfege, we will sing together and then I will ask the students to sing
the solfege pattern in a round. Singing this warm up in the style of a round is a new concert for the students. The next
warm up we will do will use the words mi, meh, mah, mo, moo and will help the students focus on their vowel sounds
and phrasing. They will be required to sing with tall vowels, diction, and good posture. This will conclude the warm up
section of this lesson. Next, I will teach the students about the treble clef. We will talk about the line notes and their
names, space notes and their names and why the treble clef is also known as the G clef. I will show them different
ways to identify notes on the staff by using the musical alphabet. Using the white board, I will draw the notes for the
students to see while going over their individual names, so that they can put the letter name of the note with its
placement on the staff. After we go over all the note names and I feel that the students have grasped the skill of note
naming, I will pass out a treble clef note identification work sheet for the students to complete and turn in for a grade.
The worksheet will allow me to see which students have mastered the skill of naming notes in the treble clef and
which ones still need help.

Activity Analysis:

In this lesson, two activities I will use are echo singing and a worksheet. The echo singing will allow me to hear
the students accuracy of pitch, their ability to sing solfege syllables and how well they can sing with tone and
correct vowels. The echo singing exercise supports standard 1 for High School choral singing under the
category Music Performance. The worksheet is a hands on activity that will allow the students to focus on
what we talked about during the lesson and will allow me to know whether or not they understand how to
read names of the notes on the treble clef. This supports standard 3.

References:

Music Theory Worksheets | MakingMusicFun.net. (n.d.). Retrieved September 15, 2014.