LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Kaylee Dohnal Grade: 2nd

Date: February 27, 2014 Period:

1. Behavioral Objective: Students will be able to identify specific rhythmic patterns played on claves, and then later written on white boards. Students will understand Black History Month, and several different black musicians. Students will understand special relations. (For upcoming dance classes. Debbie will base some lessons off dance teacher in other 2nd grade class). 2. Required Prior Knowledge and Skills: Students will have previously used white boards for rhythmic dictation. Students will have previously worked/danced with partners. Students will have previously kept the beat in music not only by hands, but with their entire body. Students will know how to quietly and respectfully walk from the chairs to the rug. 3. Standards and Frameworks: National Standards ! Singing ! Performing on Instruments ! Improvising ! Composing and arranging ! Reading and notating ! Listening to, analyzing and describing ! Evaluating music and performances ! Understanding relationships between music, the arts and disciplines ! Understanding music in relation to history and culture State Frameworks ! Singing ! Reading and notation ! Playing Instruments ! Improvisation and composition ! Critical response ! Purposes and meaning in the arts ! Role of artists in communities ! Concepts of style, stylistic influence and stylistic change ! Inventions technologies and the arts

! Interdisciplinary connections 4. Processes: ! Creating ! Performing ! Listening 5. Materials, Repertoire, Equipment needed: Claves Cell phone Rhythm book white boards, markers, erasers 6. Lesson Sequence: A. Role call. Students Echo back. B. How was break? Raise your hand if you? C. Rhythmic Dictation: First, do down the rows and have students identify rhythm being played on claves. Second, have students use individual white boards to write rhythm played on claves. (Have number 1-8). Then, switch boards and have students grade each others boards. DO NOT ERASE. Leave on chair. D. Go to rug. Have students sit correctly. What is special about the month of February? Black history month. Can anyone name some famous black musicians in history, and today? Mention Louis Armstrong. What is a music icon? Play Oh When the Saints Go Marching In. (Possibly stand up and keep beat with music. Find partner and dance.) E. Fish game as used by Laban. I caught your nose. I cut the line, go back. I caught your elbow. I cut the line, go back. Etc. F. Happy: Keep beat and move body, toe, jump up and down, clap. G. Laban method: Have students stand on white line. Demonstrate special relations from white line to carpet. It should take 10 steps to get from the white line to edge of carpet. Walk towards me as far as the length of your bed length of your parents carwhere you watch tv to where you sit. H. Show me your finger to your nose of favorite fruit. From foot to floor, how bug your favorite box of cereal is?