Choir Lesson Plans – Week of Sept. 16 – 20, 2019

 

Junior Varsity and Varsity

Warm Ups will be chosen from the following list:

(Posture)

Sternum Power

Hug Yourself

Karate Kid

(Breathing)

Farinelli

Italian Breath

Back Stretch

(Phonation)

Home Alone

Hummers

Get rid of the nose

(Blend)

Bouncing 

Alleluia

Hoo!

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Choral warm up 

Do major scale

Do Minor scale

 

Sight Singing will be chosen from the following:

90 Days to Sight Singing Week 4

 

Songs:

Students will continue to learn and memorize their appropriate part on each of the following songs; improving their tone and vocal recognition of notes.

Earth Song

I will keep still

Kyrie

Great Gettin’ Up Morning

Star Spangled Banner

Come Alive

Abba Forever

Don’t Stop Believin’

This is Me

 

TEKS: 117.313 (3) 1e – Analyze musical forms in music selected for performance and listening

117.313 (3) 1f – Analyze concepts of balance and blend using appropriate terminology

117.313 (3) 3a – Demonstrate mature, characteristic sound appropriate for the genre

117.313 (3) 4a – Exhibit mature, characteristic sound appropriate for the genre while sight reading

 

7th and 8th Grade Choir Lesson Plans – Sept.16 – 20, 2019

 

Warm Ups will be chosen from the following list:

(Posture)

Sternum Power

Hug Yourself

Karate Kid

(Breathing)

Farinelli

Italian Breath

Back Stretch

(Phonation)

Home Alone

Hummers

Get rid of the nose

(Blend)

Bouncing 

Alleluia

Hoo!

Ear Training…123456789

Choral warm up 

Do major scale

Do Minor scale

 

Sight Singing 

SOS – Simplifying Our Singing Book

Rhythm Bee #13-15

 

Songs:

Students will continue to learn and memorize their appropriate part on each of the following songs; improving their tone and vocal recognition of notes.

Gloria Deo

Heart We will forget Him

You are the Song

Omnia …

Wade in the Water 

Star of Light

1st Day of Choir

Heart and Soul

 

TEKS: 117:210  

• 117:210 (3)1d – Analyze musical forms presented aurally and through music notation such a binary, ternary, phrasic, rondo, and theme and variations

• 117:210 (3) 2b – Notate meter, rhythm, pitch and dynamics using standard symbols in a handwritten or computer generated format

• 117:210 (3) 3e – Sight Read independently and expressively, with accurate intonation and rhythm, demonstrating fundamental skills and appropriate solo, small ensemble, and large ensemble performance techniques in known keys and rhythms.
• 117:210 (3) 4c – Compare and contrast relationships of music content and processes to other academic disciplines such as the relationship between music and mathematics, literature, history, sciences, and languages

 

6th Grade Choir Lesson Plans – Week of Sept. 16 – 20, 2019

 

Warm Ups Chosen from “Pop” Warmups:

Home

Best Day of my Life

In the Jungle

 

Sight Singing

Rhythm Bee

SOS – Simplifying our Sight Singing

 

Songs:

Rock and Roll is Here to Stay

Blue Suede Shoes

Surfin’ USA

Tutti Frutti

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Rock and Roll Forever

TEKS: 117.208

 

• 117.208(3)1d – Identify musical forms presented aurally and through music notation such as binary, ternary, phrasic rondo, and theme and variations
• 117.208(3)2d – Read music notation using appropriate cognitive and kinesthetic responses such as inner hearing and Curwen hand signs
• 117.208(3) 4e – Sight-read independently and expressively, with accurate intonation and rhythm, demonstrating fundamental skills and appropriate solo, small ensemble, and large ensemble performance techniques in known keys and rhythms
• 117.208 (3) 5c – identify relationships of music concepts to other academic disciplines such as the relationship between music and mathematics, literature, history, and the sciences