Lesson Plan (Grade 4-5 General Music)

Name: Tuesday group

Date:
Music Selection
(s): Cripple Creek, House Party, Love Me Do, Sorcerers Apprentice
National Core Standards Addressed:
Performing, analyzing, interpreting,
rehearsing, evaluating, presenting, improvising

Outcomes or objectives
: (The student will be able to)
Skill outcomes: The students will be more aware of musical instruments and
develop aural analytical skills .
Knowledge outcomes: The students will gain knowledge of the
characteristics of contrasting genres.
Affective outcomes: The students will be able to identify the call and
response technique

Planned teaching strategies to produce learning outcomes

(explain in detail
each strategy):
In this lesson, the students will learn how to analyze music and communicate with
their peers as musicians. The students will be divided into three groups of 5 where
they will answer questions posed by the 4 facilitating teachers in the room. After the
audio listening activity, the students will learn the call and response activity and will
perform their improvised arrangements of the activity.
1. Introductory Activity- To refamilarize ourselves with the students names, Julia
will lead the students in a vocal activity where they have to share their names.
Singing attendance (Julia instruction)
2. Analyze Song: Cripple Creek (appalachian Mountain folk song)

What do you hear?

What instrument(s) is playing?
Inform them that this is the origin of country music..
How is this song different from the country songs that you know?

3. House Party (Sam Smith)

What do you hear?

What instrument(s) is playing?
What does this music remind you of?
This song is in 4/4, on which beats are clapping present?

4. Analyze Song: Love Me Do (Beetles)

What do you hear?

What instrument(s) is playing?
Are the singers in the song harmonizing? How do you know?
There is a wind instrument solo in the song? Which instrument is it?

5. Sorcerer's apprentice *Starting at 3:55*

What do you hear?

What instrument(s) is playing?
Is this part Piano or Forte?
What is the texture of this part? Are high or low instruments playing the
melody?

(Extension)
6. Closing activity- Call and response with drum (Richard Instruction)

*Teachers facilitate as students Think Peer Share*

Assessments
(explain strategies uses for student assessments related to listed
outcomes)
Skill assessments: The students will gain experience in musical communication by
compliling their ideas to present to the rest of the class. The students will also
perform their own improvised call and response ideas.
Knowledge assessments: The students will answer questions about the selected
audio recordings. They will present what theyve learned/discovered by each genre
Affective assessments: The students will be asked to go home and teach their
parents/siblings the call and response and they will play Call and Response with
their families.