Choir Lesson Plans – Week of Sept. 9-13, 2019

 

Junior Varsity and Varsity

Warm Ups to improve Posture, Breathing, Phonation, Articulation, and Blend.

 

Sight Singing will be chosen from the following:

90 Days to Sight Singing Week 3

90 Days to Sight Singing Packet

 

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’

Hallelujah

 

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. 9-13, 2019

Warm Ups will include techniques to improve Posture, Breathing, Phonation, Articulation, and Blend.

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

 

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. 9-13, 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