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Lesson Plan for April 6, 2018

❏ Subject: General Music
❏ Age Level: 7th Grade
❏ Teacher Resources: (What do you need to be able to teach this lesson?)
❏ Percussion instrument (tall drum/rhythm sticks)
❏ Projector
❏ Computer and sound capability
❏ Worksheet- Group Rhythm Performance 7th Grade

❏ Student Resources: (What do students need to be able to learn?)

❏ Percussion instrument (tall drum/rhythm sticks)
❏ Pencil
❏ Worksheet- Group Rhythm Performance 7th Grade

❏ Objectives: (What Will Students Learn and Be Able to Do by the End of this Lesson?)
❏ SWBAT audiate a rhythm as a group and individually
❏ SWBAT transfer these rhythms onto the drum
❏ SWBAT maintain multiple rhythms as part of a group
❏ SWBAT subdivide and write the counts from notated rhythms from those on the
worksheet
❏ SWBAT play notated rhythms from the worksheet

❏ Lesson Description: (Is it clear and concise?)

Time Spent Goal Procedures/ Assessment Standards

Strategies

6 Minutes -Engage -Begin lesson, - “Do Now” -2014 Arts:

students’ introduction assignment on Responding
critical -Briefly review board
thinking and what we - Student
listening as the discussed about writing down
video plays music their thoughts
yesterday about the video
-Give guiding
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questions
-Start video
and stop as
necessary

2 Minutes Engage critical -Talk about the -Student -2014 Arts:

thinking on video responses Responding
how rhythm -Guided through brief
and music is a questions group
part of daily discussion
life through -Student
discussion answers on
their papers

8 Minutes Pass out the -Students -2014 Arts:

worksheet and filling out Responding
review how it worksheets
works, possible with counts
need to teach -Student
how to use involvement in
resources the activity

3 Minutes Pass out -Let them go -Accuracy of -2014 Arts:

drums/sticks grab an repetition in Performing
and show instrument by student playing
students how to row -Student
use them -Demonstrate involvement in
how to make the activity
open/closed
tone on the
drum

8 minutes Play through -Everyone -Accuracy of -2014 Arts:

the rhythm plays the first repetition in Performing
worksheet line together student playing
using the -Everyone -Student
drums and plays the involvement in
backtrack second line the activity
together
-Split room in
half, have own
part playing the
top line and
vice versa
-Switch
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instruments
and briefly
review how to
make a tone on
the drum
-Repeat the
same steps

4 Minutes Use drums to -Discuss how -Accuracy of -2014 Arts:

play speech rhythm can be repetition in Performing
patterns that an everyday student playing
are rhythms thing -Student
-Model some involvement in
sentences and the activity
then play this
on the drum
-Have students
echo on their
own drum

3 Minutes Students play -Give a few -Accuracy of -2014 Arts:

their own moments for in student Performing
rhythms to a students to playing
steady beat think about -Student
what they’re involvement in
doing this the activity
weekend -Student focus
-Keep a steady on the activity
beat as students
share in order
from around
the room

2 Minutes Put away Have students -Student

drums put away involvement
drums/rhythm and
sticks in an accountability
organized
fashion

5 Minutes (3 for -Show video -Preface video -Student -2014 Arts:

video, 2 for with guiding -Give 2 guiding responses Responding
discussion) questions, questions through brief
pausing -Stop as needed group
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periodically to during the discussion

discuss the video for -Attentive
actual music further focus to the
and varying questions video
rhythms that
they heard

❏ Lesson Rationale: (What is the purpose of this lesson?)

❏ To introduce group drumming
❏ To play notated rhythmic patterns
❏ To introduce students to different types of rhythmic applications

Recap:
❏ Procedures: (What processes, strategies, and tasks will you use to meet the objectives?)
❏ Modeling
❏ Isolating different groups of students
❏ Student writing down rhythms

❏ Assessment: (How will student learning be assessed in this lesson?)

❏ Rhythm worksheet
❏ Writing down thoughts regarding the video
❏ Student Responses from Group Discussion
❏ Student involvement in the drumming