David Daily

Lesson Plan: The Fox

Content and Achievement Standards
-Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
a. sing independently, on pitch, and in rhythm, with
appropriate timbre, diction, and posture while
maintaining a steady tempo.
-Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and
disciplines outside the arts
a. identify similarities and differences in the meanings of
common
terms used in the various arts
Class Goals and Objectives
-Strengthen students singing through meaningful participation in
singing
activities.
-Develop students sense of pitch and rhythmic awareness
-Introduce the concept of musical phrasing
Materials
-The Fox- teacher reference only
Procedures
1. Students will discuss their favorite animals.
2. Students discuss about animals that are out at night.
3. Students will listen to teacher sing The Fox
4. Students will learn the song in segments
5. Students will put the whole thing together
6. Students will be asked how they were told taught the song. (in
chunks)
7. Students will learn that these small chunks of a song are
(sometimes) called phrases.
8. Students will listen as teacher explains how musical phrases and
sentences are very similar.
9. Students will sing the song again, this time taking breaths where
they believe a phrase ends.
Assessment of Goals and Objectives
Assessment will be informal and achieved by monitoring the
room during final performance to make sure students are singing
on pitch, maintaining a steady beat, and singing with the correct
phrasing. Questions will also be asked to review the phrasing
that was covered.
Follow up Lessons
Future lessons will include songs covering a broader range of
phrases; longer, shorter, and varying lengths of phrases in other
songs. Plans could also go into depth about measures, beats,
barlines, and more music theory oriented material.