VMRC Intergenerational Choir

Rehearsal Number 3 Schedule and General Lesson Plan:

(50 x minutes = 30.9 min. = Golden Mean of the Class = Harder stuff before
this!)

1. LESSON # 3: NAME: Rachel Pennington (8 minutes lesson)

REHEARSAL THREADS: Review and Run

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: Completely run through the song and fix anything needed

Assessment Strategies:
Throughout this rehearsal I will engage in formal assessment by: Listening to which parts need help and fixing
them
Throughout this rehearsal I will engage in informal assessment by: Making note of what need more work on
the next rehearsal

Start Timings Activity or Piece Developmental Hierarchy Differentiation

Time Totals Level/Chunks, Plan and Sequence

Time: .5/8 minutes Introduction and Activity 1: Welcome and Goals

Welcome

Activity 1: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:

Chunk 1: Welcome and Goals

1s. Good Morning, choir!

2v Good Morning!

1a If you could please turn to “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”, on page 14. My rehearsal
threads and goals for today to review and run
The goals and objectives of this rehearsal are to completely run through the song, and fix
anything needed

TRANSITION into Activity 2 by…

Time 1.5/2/8 minutes Reviewing the alto Activity 2: Review

and tenor parts

Activity 2: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT: Reviewing the Alto and Tenor Line

Chunk 1: We’re going to start by reviewing what we did last week. So, if all sopranos and altos could
be an alto, and all tenors and basses be a tenor.
Chunk 2: Performing
- Everyone please sing on solfege
- Choir sings
- Now if everyone could please sing on text
- Choir sings

Chunk 3: Nicely done! It seems like you remember those well. Let’s now move to the soprano and
bass parts.

TRANSITION into Activity 3 by… (a 1o?!)

Time 1.5/3.5/8 minutes Reviewing the Activity 3: Review

soprano and bass
parts

Activity 3: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT: Reviewing the soprano and bass parts
Wind it forward:
Chunk 1: We’ll now review the soprano and bass parts from our first rehearsal. If all sopranos and Skip the solfege
altos could now be a soprano and all tenors and basses now be a bass. and go straight to
text.
Chunk 2: Performing
- Please sing on solfege
- Choir sings Wind it back:
- Now move to text Have everyone be
- Choir sings each individual part
until they have the
Chunk 3: Well done! Now that we’ve reviewed each part, lets run it from the beginning. sound of their part
in their brain.

TRANSITION into Activity 4 by…

Time 4/7.5/8 minutes Full Run Activity 4: Run

Activity 3: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT: Run the full piece

Wind it forward:
Chunk 1: Let’s now put all 4 parts together Skip the solfege
and go straight to
Chunk 2: Performing text.
- If everyone could please sing through on solfege
- Choir sings on solfege
- If you could now move to text Wind it back:
- Choir moves to text Have the JMU
 students sing
Chunk 3: I will listen for any parts that need to be fixed, and plan accordingly. through each part
once while they
Chunk 4: Great job everyone! You all are blending well together, and it sounds fantastic! listen

TRANSITION into the last Activity, the learning by…

Time .5/8/8 minutes Rehearsal Summary Activity LAST: Learning Summary

Activity Last: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT: Learning Summary

Wind it forward:
Chunk 1:
1a Today we had a very successful rehearsal. WE had the rehearsal threads of reviewing and Have students
running. volunteer the points
with the goals of completing, fixing, and running. of learning of the
2v Students listen and smile, we hope rehearsal;

You all sound wonderful! Thank you for a great rehearsal!! Write the learning
on a reflection
sheet;

Assign homework
for the next
rehearsal based on
learning of this
rehearsal.

Wind it back:

You summarize by
writing on the
board to be able to
hear it and see if at
the same time.