VMRC Intergenerational Choir

Rehearsal Number 4/4: Purples Schedule and General Lesson Plan: 50 Minutes
November 30, 2017 (50 x minutes = 30.9 min. = Golden Mean of the Class = Harder stuff
before this!)

1. LESSON #4: NAME___Kayla Cenaure___________________

REHEARSAL THREADS: Expression: Diction, Meaning

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: Fill our piece with clear expression of text and facial
expression.

Assessment Strategies:
Throughout this rehearsal I will engage in formal assessment by: Having them sing finished sections at the end
my teaching sequence.

Throughout this rehearsal I will engage in informal assessment by: Watching for engagement as I am teaching,
dialing it back if necessary to repeat or make things clearer

Start Timings Activity or Piece Developmental Hierarchy

Time Totals Level/Chunks, Plan and Sequence

Time: (:30/7:00) Activity 1: Chunk 1: Welcome and Goals

Welcome & Goals

Activity 1: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:

Chunk 1:
1sd. Good Morning VMRC! Please open your music to page 34.

2v. Good Morning

1a. My rehearsal threads and goals for today are to explore the meaning of Ding Dong
Merrily on High and to focus on having clearer diction throughout the verses with
long phrases

1d. Please take out a pencil! I would like you to mark mezzo forte in measure 1,
mezzo piano in measure 5, and mezzo forte in measure 9. In the last beat of
measure 14 please write in a crescendo over the phrase hosanna in the
highest.

Time (1:30/2:00/7:00) Activity 2: Chunk 1:

Review third verse Chunk 2:
Activity 2: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT: I
Chunk 1: I would like to talk a bit about the history of this piece now. The tune was originally a
French dancing piece and it wasnt until the 1920s that a man by the name George Ratcliffe
Woodward added lyrics of his own creation and published a book of carols that we still
sing today!

TRANSITION WITH: 3sra. Great job! Lets now move to a diction review

Time: (1:00/3:00/7:00) Activity 3: Our

Meaning

Activity 3: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:

Chunk 1: Meaning : mm:

1d. Please close your eyes and think of a memory that you have of this song.

2v Students close eyes

1d Would anyone like to share their personal experience?

2v Student shares

1d Thank you for sharing, anyone else?

2v Student shares

1d Thank you for sharing. This piece reminds me of my first time singing for lessons &
carols with my church and how excited everyone was for the service. I would love
if everyone could convey their experiences through their dynamics and faces while
we sing this piece. And I will show my experience on my face and through my
gestures as well!

TRANSITION WITH: Great thinking everyone! Lets go ahead and start at the introduction and run
through the entirety of the piece now.

Time: (2.00/7:00/7:00) Activity 5: Perform the Chunk 1: Perform the entire piece or a
piece! huge chunk of it, time depending.

Activity 6: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:

Give 2 beats to accompanist, DIRECT.

1sa. Thank you so much everyone, I really enjoyed how I could see the happy
memories you all have had with this music on your faces and through your
blending and dynamics! Thank you again!

TRANSITION WITH: Very well done!