Put a Little Love in Your Heart

Textbook - Making Music, grade level 4, p. 6

David Daily, Tim Fights
MusEd 351
13 October, 2013
Content and Achievement Standards
-Singing alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
-Performing on instruments alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
-Listening to analyzing and describing music
-Reading and notating
Materials
-Trumpet/Trombone
-CD 1 for Making Music book 4
-Copies of the Put a Little Love in Your Heart or from the textbook
-Rhythm instruments
Class Goals and Objectives
Learn and perform the song Put a Little Love in Your Heart.
Understand the concept of syncopation. (musical concept of focus)
Play syncopated ostinato on unpitched rhythmic instruments (Musical skill)
Reinforce concept of on vs off the beat.
Procedure
-Students will listen as instructors will play song on brass instruments [with cd]
-Students will listen to instructors sing through first verse and refrain of Put a Little Love in Your
Heart. [no cd]
-Students will receive hand-out copies of the song or have students open their books to p. 6
-Students will learn Put a Little Love in Your Heart with the whole part whole strategy.
-Students will sing through refrain alone and clap better place rhythm in music.
-Students will answer if that rhythm falls on the beat or off the beat. [answer is off]
-Show it is not on the beat [one of us claps beat while other claps rhythm]
-Students will listen to the instructors explain the concept of syncopation- When longer fuller
notes occur not on the beat.
-Half of the students will play on unpitched percussion instruments the ostinato pattern while the
other half sings the song. Switch roles.
-Students will repeat clapped rhythms by the instructor that demonstrate syncopated and non
syncopated rhythms.
-Students will then be asked whether those rhythms were syncopated or not.
Assessment and Follow up Lessons
Assessment will be informal and will be determined by asking the students whether the rhythms
that are clapped to them are syncopated or not. Future lessons will include defining ostinato,
subdivision, and other rhythmic concepts.