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Park High School Wednesday 17/06/2020 3 7

Unit: -
Topic: Pitch and Piano/Keyboard
Aim: Students will closely analyse a piece of music, ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’. The purpose is to
help students understand the black notes of the keyboard.
Syllabus Outcomes:
4.2 performs music using different forms of notation and different types of technology across a broad range
of musical styles.
4.12 demonstrates a developing confidence and willingness to engage in performing, composing and listening
experiences.

Life Skills
LS.2 vocalises, sings or plays an instrument.
General Capabilities:
Literacy:
 Students develop metalanguage specific to music
 Students learn to form coherent sentences using the metalanguage
Numeracy:
 Students develop their ability to read and interpret traditional forms of notation
Critical and Creative Thinking:
 Practicing and rehearsing the repertoire chosen
Students learn to: Students learn about:
 perform music through singing, playing and  recognising the use of musical concepts in
moving to a range of repertoire. various repertoire characteristic of the topics studied.
 perform music that uses different forms of  understanding various forms of musical
musical notation and technologies. notation used in the repertoire studied.

Life Skills Life Skills

 play an instrument for personal enjoyment,  performing individually in informal and
eg recorder, keyboard, guitar. formal situations.
Resources: Assessment:
 Sheet Music  Learning a new piece of music
 Laptop
 YouTube
Lesson Stages Teacher Activities Student Activities
Connect the  Have them listen to In the Hall of  To identify pitch in this song
learning the Mountain King, and as a class using the sentence strategy.
discuss how we could write about
the pitch in the piece using our
sentence strategies.
Share new  How a sharp or a flat can alter the  To circle musical markings that
information sound of a piece they might not have seen before.
 Handing out the sheet music for  Students will be able to play this
this piece of music. piece of music on the piano,
 Going through as a class some demonstrating their ability to
things that they might not have play sharp/flat notes written on
seen before. the sheet music.

Demonstrating  This will be demonstrated

new through their ability to play the
understanding piece.
 Students may continue working
on Ode to Joy
Review & After discussing the lesson plan after
Reflect teaching it, my mentor has advised me of
ways to improve the lesson structure/flow.
These include:
 Pick a different music example to
listen to for the recap. This will
add a sense of variety to the lesson.
 Give all the information to the
students. Get the writing out of the
way first and then move onto prac.
 Simplify the understanding of
accidentals.