Comprehensive Daily or Unit Lesson Plan Template

Instructor Name: Ruben Pascual Date(s):

Week 2
Class Location: Garey High School
LESSON BASICS
Topic: Student Types/Group: Length of Lesson:
The Life and Music of ESL 50 minute class period,
Ludwig van Beethoven College Prep every day, Monday -
Friday
Standard(s): Depth of Knowledge:
California K-12 Academic Content Standards: Music x1. Recall and Reproduction
Grades 9-12 Proficient x2. Skills and Concepts
x3. Short-Term Thinking
Area: Artistic Perception x4. Extended Thinking
Standards: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4

Area: Creative Expression

Standards: 2.4

Area: Historical and Cultural Context

Standards: 3.2, 3.4, 3.5,

Area: Aesthetic Valuing

Standards: 4.1, 4.2, 4.4

Area: Connections, Relationships, Applications

Standards: 5.3

California Common Core State Standards (2012)

Grades 9-12: English Language Arts
Reading: Standard 1, 2
Writing: Standard 1, 2, 3

Essential Question:
Who was Ludwig van Beethoven?
Objective(s):
Students will:
Discuss and write about, with understanding, the three main periods of
Beethovens life.
Begin to develop a deeper understanding of the first movement of the
symphony.
Begin to perform the symphony with more accurate articulations, dynamics,
intonation, and technique.
 Learn about new practice strategies and learn how to implement them into
their own practice sessions.
Reflect on their own individual practice sessions and determine where their
strengths and weaknesses lie.
Required Materials/Equipment/Technology/Outside Resources:
1. A History of Western Music
2. Beethoven Symphony No. 5: I. Allegro con brio (score and string parts)
3. Article: Advice from the Maestro: Some-Times Less is More
Prior Knowledge/ Required Vocabulary: Instructional Methods:
Connections: Legato Clustering
The Industrial Era: Slicing
historical, cultural, KWL Charts
and social context. Biopoems
Ability to read music Personal
Musical terms from Narratives
last week. Formative
Assessements:
o Exit slips
o Group
playing
test

ACTIVITY PLAN
1. Vocabulary Strategy(ies):
Monday-
Clustering:
I will play a recording of a performer showcasing the legato technique and
each student will create a cluster to describe what they hear. The students will
share their clusters in a group and discuss their thoughts. Lastly, the entire
class will work together to create a definition for legato before they look at the
textbook definition. We will do this by making one large cluster on the board
and forming a cohesive definition that everybody agrees on.
Personal Glossary:
Students will add new vocabulary terms to their personal glossary.

2. Comprehension Strategy(ies):
Monday-Friday-
Slicing:
I will be breaking down each chapter of the text into small lectures and reading
activities each day of the week.

Tuesday-
KWL Charts:
Pre-reading activity designed to activate prior knowledge. Students make a chart
where they list what they Know, what they Want to Know, and what they
Learned at the end of the lesson.
I will have the students create a KWL on Beethoven. This would be used to
prepare them for learning about the composer. I will instruct students to fill in
the Learned portion little by little every day as an Exit Slip assignment, with
the days of the week clearly specified.

3. Writing Strategy(ies):
Friday-
Biopoems:
Students use a structured template of a poem that includes important information
about an important person or topic.
I will have the students create a biopoem on Beethoven. They will use the
following criteria for the poem: first name, four traits that describe the
character, relative of, love or, who feels, who needs, who fears, who gives,
who would like to see, resident of, and last name.

4. Discussion Strategy(ies):
Thursday-
Personal Narratives:
Students write or share a personal experience that relates to a given topic or text.
I will have the students share their related personal experiences. First they will
discuss in small groups, and then we will have a whole class discussion. This
activity would serve as a discussion and comprehension strategy because the
students have to reflect on the life of Beethoven in order to then look
introspectively at their own lives and think about how they can relate.
The class will then have a discussion about how these experiences can
pervade the work that we do, and the work that Beethoven did as a musician.

5. Assessment Strategy(ies):
Monday-Friday
Formative Assessment: Exit slip learned portion of the KWL

Wednesday-
Formative assessment: group playing test on sections of the symphony.

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