Nt1310 Unit 1
UNIT OVERVIEW
Unit 2 Contrast: How do I understand and benefit from difference?
Close Study Focus Context
Discipline Music
Unit Focus
During this unit, students will explore the ways that contrast makes the world a more interesting place to live. Students will identify contrasts in their environment and in music and apply these concepts to their own music-making to be more expressive.
Essential Questions
What would the world be like without contrast?
Can people with different ideas both be right?
How can music and movement depict ideas from a story?
Major Concepts Vocabulary
Opinion
Critique
Perspective ● High
● Low
● Piano
● Forte
● Adagio
● Allegro
National Standards Addressed
MU:Cr1.1.Ka With guidance, explore and experience …show more content…
Students will brainstorm ways to illustrate story through movement, vocal sounds, and instruments to enhance final telling of the story. Each lesson will include student practice and critique.
● Performance culminates from several lessons designed around specifics of creating improvised accompaniment for story. Students perform final product in groups, executing the plan they have been creating. Throughout the creative process, the teacher will notate student decisions to help them in the final performance. In the final class, students will practice in teacher-created groups, then perform as a class while the teacher reads the story.
Unit Level Assessment criteria on which students will be evaluated on educational performance; reflects all aspects of the unit
Students will be assessed on a 4-point rubric by themselves and teacher.
Students will participate in critiques and conversations which will be assessed either throughout or at the end of
Unit 2 Contrast: How do I understand and benefit from difference?
Close Study Focus Context
Discipline Music
Unit Focus
During this unit, students will explore the ways that contrast makes the world a more interesting place to live. Students will identify contrasts in their environment and in music and apply these concepts to their own music-making to be more expressive.
Essential Questions
What would the world be like without contrast?
Can people with different ideas both be right?
How can music and movement depict ideas from a story?
Major Concepts Vocabulary
Opinion
Critique
Perspective ● High
● Low
● Piano
● Forte
● Adagio
● Allegro
National Standards Addressed
MU:Cr1.1.Ka With guidance, explore and experience …show more content…
Students will brainstorm ways to illustrate story through movement, vocal sounds, and instruments to enhance final telling of the story. Each lesson will include student practice and critique.
● Performance culminates from several lessons designed around specifics of creating improvised accompaniment for story. Students perform final product in groups, executing the plan they have been creating. Throughout the creative process, the teacher will notate student decisions to help them in the final performance. In the final class, students will practice in teacher-created groups, then perform as a class while the teacher reads the story.
Unit Level Assessment criteria on which students will be evaluated on educational performance; reflects all aspects of the unit
Students will be assessed on a 4-point rubric by themselves and teacher.
Students will participate in critiques and conversations which will be assessed either throughout or at the end of