Unit 4 — Connecting
Description
Students will aesthetically, and expressively relate to music based on their interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to create a meaningful performance. Students will celebrate the lives and music of various musicians through various genres of music as well as Music History. Some Specific Genres Include: Jazz, Hip-Hop, Spiritual, Classical, Ragtime, Rap. Awareness will be brought to Climate Change through chosen songs and performances.
Essential Questions
- How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
- How do the other arts, other disciplines, contexts, and daily life inform creating, performing, and responding to music?
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate how interests, knowledge and skills related to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music. (1.3A.8.Cn10a)
- Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life. (1.3A.8.Cn11a)
- Through creating media artworks, make meaning by investigating and developing an awareness of culture and experiences.
- Interconnect musical learning with personal experience and other disciplines.
Supplemental Resources
- Instruments (flutes, clarinets, trumpets, saxophones)
- Chord charts
- Tablature
- Promethean board
- Vocal and instrumental scores
- Sheet music
Music - Connecting
Students apply mathematical reasoning to rhythm patterns, proportions, and structural analysis of musical compositions.
Students explore how climate change is addressed through song selection and performance choices, integrating scientific awareness into musical practice.
Students analyze song lyrics, music history, and develop writing and speaking skills through musical discussion, analysis, and presentation of musical concepts.
Students examine the cultural, historical, and social contexts of various music genres including Jazz, Hip-Hop, Spiritual, Classical, Ragtime, and Rap from diverse ethnic, racial, and cultural perspectives.
Students develop social-emotional competencies, collaboration skills, and physical coordination through instrumental performance and ensemble participation.
Students encounter and perform music from diverse world cultures and languages, enhancing cross-cultural communication and understanding.
Formative Assessments
- Group Work
- Projects
- Discussion
- Question and Answer
- Teacher Observation
- Skill Testing
Summative Assessment
Through creating media artworks, students make meaning by investigating and developing an awareness of culture and experiences.
Benchmark Assessment
Benchmark assessments as outlined in district assessment resources.
Alternative Assessment
Alternative assessments as outlined in district assessment resources.
IEP (Individualized Education Program)
Modifications and accommodations listed in an IEP will take priority for each individual student instruction. Suggested modifications are included in curriculum guides for all types of learners.
Section 504
Modifications and accommodations listed in a 504 plan will take priority for each individual student instruction.
ELL / MLL
Suggested accommodations and modifications provided; specific plans take priority.
At Risk (RTI)
Suggested accommodations and modifications provided; specific plans take priority.
Gifted & Talented
Suggested accommodations and modifications provided for G&T learners.