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Date: ___10/11/16_____
Items to Address
(ensemble, techniques, measures, connections)
Concert March
Outcomes:
Questions to ask:
Assessments:
Time
40 min
LESSON PLAN
Composition
Items to Address
(ensemble, techniques, measures, connections)
Time
Followup / Assignments: Add metronome to practice logs, mark with a red M if they did
practice with a metronome.
Reflection (What worked and what didnt work today?):
We had a great discussion about roles in society. I asked them to each tell the
class what they wanted to do when they grew up, and they were happy to share - as this
class always is! We talked about how each of those jobs was important in society, each
one contributing to a better community whether or not it actively included music. We
also talked about how music itself is an example of society, with jobs and roles and how
every member of the ensemble is important. The class really enjoys talking and it was
sometimes difficult to rein them in, but they are good kids and helped to get each other
back on track.
The warm-up went okay. The students are great at defining musical terms, but
there is such a wide diversity in technical skill among them that actually applying the
right articulations to the scale was difficult. A couple of the students in the back seemed
to have trouble hearing the differences in articulations even when myself and other
students demonstrated them perfectly.
LESSON PLAN
In our rehearsal we took plenty of opportunities to pause and figure out what the
role of each instrumental section was. Some of the students were very adept at
determining what each other section in the class was doing, but most students needed
to stop and listen to another section play in order to decide. As usual, they seemed to
enjoy the randomized performance cross-sections, with just a few students from each
section playing at a time and all the others listening carefully.