Understanding By Design Unit

Title of Unit
Curriculum Area
Developed By

Musical Creativity: Musical varieties, Spoken word,

Group performance,
Performing Arts
Lazaro lopez & Najee Lee

Grade Level

Time Frame

50 minutes

Identify Desired Results (Stage 1)

Content Standards
MU.4.S.1.2- Create melodic patterns using a variety of sound sources.
MU.4.S.1.1- Improvise phrases, using familiar songs.

Understandings

Essential Questions

Overarching Understanding

Overarching

Topical

How does the correlation of the spoken

word and instrumental performance
affect the overall outcome? Are the
ideas present in the spoken word also
present in the instrumental
performance?

DONT worry about this for now!

Related Misconceptions

What are some things you notice in the

playing of the instrumentalists (change
of tone, tempo, dynamics, intonation)?

DONT worry about this for now!

Knowledge

Skills

Students will know

Students will engage with

Reinforce the ideas in the relationship between the topic and material of the spoken
word and that of the instrumental performance.

Iinstruments as an amplifier to create melodic patterns using familiar songs such

as Mary has a little lamb and Happy Birthday

Reinforce the meaning of: Varieties (taking a familiar piece and using it to the
performances advantage by implanting on ideas and/playing a variation of the piece
rather than the original)

Procedures

Detail here all the steps for the lesson

1.Pass out sheet music for Mary has a little lamb and Happy Birthday
2.Teach music to students, also explain the contents of a song( Intro, Melody, Ending, Expression, Phrasing,
Articulations)
3.Using notes in either song, improvise a new song containing all the attributes mentioned