Lesson Plan

Name: Arvi Lapuz Date: March 1, 2017

Grade/Class: 6th Grade General Music

1. Measurable Objective(s):
Students will recall fundamental elements of music such as reading notes in treble and
bass clef (notes on or near the staff); common symbols found on scores such as repeat
signs, clefs, grand staff elements; and common terms having to do with dynamics and
tempo markings.

2. Required Prior Knowledge and Skills:

Students understand or have had experiences with reading a grand staff, and are
familiar with any or all of the treble and bass clef notes between between G2 and F5,
style symbols, dynamic symbols, and note values.

3. Review Needed:

*** This is a review lesson ***

4. Materials, Repertoire, Equipment needed:

White board and markers
paper and pencils
flashcards

5. Agenda:

Review lesson
"Around the World"
Discuss Homework project

6. Lesson Sequence (be sure to list time in the pacing section) Pacing

A. Brief Opening: 5 mins

Name any part of this music that you recognize. (On powerpoint)

B. Learning Activities: (What learning experiences and instruction will

enable students to achieve the desired results have more learning
activities than you need)
1. Review Treble and Bass Clef symbols
2. Building a Grand staff/putting together staves (brackets, bar lines, 20 minutes
measures, etc.)
3. Name Treble Clef Notes (lines and spaces) and recite mnemonic

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device sentences to help remember
4. Name Bass clef note (lines and spaces) and recite mnemonic device
sentence to help remember
5. Review note values
6. Change notes on the staff to have values
7. Review legato, slurs, staccato, repeat sign
8. Review dynamics most commonly found in early stages of music (i.e.
piano (p), forte (f) mezzo-piano (mp), mezzo-forte (mf), pianissimo (pp),
and fortissimo (ff)

C. Assessment:
As students learn each new item, teacher will notate symbol or
marking on the board. (The idea is that he/she will slowly construct a
grand staff with notes, styles, and dynamics notated)

After this demonstration, students will then have their own turn to come
up to the board and construct a grand staff complete with musical
elements.

D. Closing/Wrap-up:
"Around the World" game. 10 mins
Students will sit in a circle, with one chosen person standing behind a
sittering person. Teacher will show flashcards, one at a time, at random,
to the student standing and sitting in front, and one must respond faster
than the other. Who ever responds first, may continue on to stand behind
the next person. The goal is to make it all the way around the circle.

E. Assignment:
Using the list I provide, make a booklet of the terms reviewed in 5 mins.
today's lesson. It must contain musical symbols that are labeled
appropriately, and definitions.

7. Accommodations:
Use of generous repetition, worksheets with bigger font, seats closer to the board

8. Teacher Reflection/Self-Evaluation:
For the most part, I know that I did a smoother presentation having had a Prezi to go off
of. I believe it was engaging to the students. I spoke a little bit, had a visual, and also
moved the focus to the board. I need to be more aware about the questions that I ask
that students and not just teach to the "class" as a whole. I had some students who just
nodded their heads and I took it as a sign to continue on. I did forget to have students
get up during the lesson and practice what they were learning by personally writing it
down on the board. I think it's very important and effective to have them writing as they
go along. In that case, I could have had a worksheet or something for them to be
noting. The game was enjoyable, but I think it could be more enjoyable if I had every

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student feeling more confident about the material. It's my job during the actual lesson to
help get them to that point.

9. National Standards: (Creating, Performing, Responding)

Respond: Analyze: Re7.2.Ka - With guidance, demonstrate how a specific music
concept is used in music.

10. State Standards: (Singing, Reading & Notation, Playing Instruments,

Improvisation & Composition, Critical Response, Purposes & meaning in the arts, Rose
of artists in communities, Concepts of style, stylistic influence & stylistic change,
Inventions technologies & the arts, Interdisciplinary connections)

Reading & Notation, Singing