7th Grade!

EXPERIENTIAL OBJECTIVE: Students will experience comprehensive choral

rehearsal focused on tone production, piece memorization, and assessment to prepare
for the upcoming spring concert. !
BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVE: By end of the rehearsal, students will be able to 1) sing
Bonse Aba by memory 2) read/ sing mm. 84 - ending of River in Judea. !

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WARM-UP !
Objective: warm, tall, blended tone. !
1. Vocal exploration: falsetto (tone), mixed voice, humming!
speaking falsetto voice!
5 note descending/ ascending scales !
2. Vowel shape: tall, relaxed, hot potato inside the mouth!
3. Scotlands Burning (expression/ legato)!
4. Assign student numbers (pairs for the assessment)!
Explain objectives for the assessment: memorization, application of learned

elements (dynamics, phrasing, articulation, diction)!

Bonse Aba !
1. REVIEW sections A - F!
2. SPOT CHECKS/ REVIEW!
Rhythmic diminution for pitch memory!
Sectionals!
3. ASSESSMENT in pairs/ quartets!
4. PERFORMANCE add steps!

River in Judea !
1. REVIEW echo-speaking (text memorization/ phrase)!
2. REVIEW mm. 69 - 83 !

 Sectionals!
Parts? Unison? !
Together!
3. REVIEW mm. 9 - 57!
4. INTRODUCE mm. 84 - ending!
1. Part 2!
Compare and contrast with the previous chorus: same expect Hallelu!!
ECHO-SING in chunks!
2. Rhythmic diminution for pitch memory !

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3. Together!