UNIT PLAN 2013-2014 Colegio Granadino

UNIT PLAN 2013-2014 Colegio Granadino

Use this package to complete unit plans for each quarter (or parts thereof)
Upload completed unit plans to staff lesson folder on the system
Email to rperskie@granadino.edu.co

Teacher Germn Camilo Salazar Lozada

Grades 8
Subject Music
Quarter 2

Stage 1: Determine desired results

Key Standards and Benchmarks assessed in this unit:

Standard 6 - Understands the relationship between music and history and culture.

MC8.6.1 Identifies historical facts in music and establish relation with current events

MC8.6.2 Knows and understands the historical background of academic music

MC8.6.3 Knows and understands the historical background of several musical instruments of the academic music, their function, construction and
technical features.

MC8.6.4 Understands the relationship between music and arts, politics, economics and society.

Standard 7: Develops ear skills

MC8.7.1 Identifies easy technical elements of music by listening to them

MC8.7.2 Identifies musical instruments from the academic music by listening to them

MC8.7.3 Writes a long rhythmic phrase after listening

Specific content

Organology of the Symphony Orchestra

Strings: Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass
Woodwinds: Flute, Piccolo, Clarinet, Basson, Oboe, Saxo
Brass: Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba.
Percussion: Timpani, Snare Drum, Tenor drum, Bass Drum, Cymbals, Tam-tam, Triangle,
Wood block, Tambourine, Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Chimes, Marimba.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable evidence

Performance Tasks (e-g. test, exam, Assessment devices (rubrics, charts,
performance, presentation, essay, etc.) checklists, logs etc.)

1. Exams in which the teacher can evaluate -The student recognizes any instrument from
the learning process the Classical Music by listening to it, and is
able to explain its historical background,
2. Homework with further information about construction and technical features.
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the different subjects.

3. Appropriated participation, audience and

concentration within the class

3. Appropriated behavior, attendance and

dressing within the classroom.

Resources:

Didactical guides, Staff Blackboard, Classroom audio system, Auditory, Videobeam.

Stage 3: Learning Experiences and instruction plan

Give a general outline of how long the unit will take, and what activities will be used in order to
accomplish the desired results:

Organology of the World Music

The teacher explains the classification of the music instruments and put them together
in different categories:

-Strings:
-Bowing: Violn Viola, Cello, Double Bass
-Plucking: Guitar, Harpischord, Harp
-Striking: Piano

-Winds:
-Woodwinds: Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, Bassoon, Saxophone
-Brass: French Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba

-Percussion:
-idiophone
-Membranophone

Screening Videos about the instruments of the Symphony Orchestra:

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partitas

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Camille Sain Saens: The Carnival of The Animals
Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Maurice Ravel: Bolero

Slide Presentation: Symphony Organology

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Ear Training
Consolidation Class Work with the topics studied developing the ability to identify each one by
listening to it

Quarter subject revision.

The teacher resolves any doubt about the topics learned through the quarter.

Quarter Exam

Can you identify enduring understandings in
your unit? What are they?
The student will understand the general
working of musical grammar and music
theory and will apply easy concepts to music
performance.
What essential questions will you ask the
students (give them a context or framework
for the unit)?
Have you seen a Symphony Orchestra Before?
Do you know how does a piano work?

The student will recognize any instrument of Are you able to classify the musical
Classical Music within a music piece or music instruments into groups?
piece and from any ensemble.

The student will understand the meaning of

the folk music in the culture and the society.

The student will recognize different kinds of

folk music by listening to it and understands
their general meaning.

The students will apply the concept by

They will recognize theoretical and contextual (historic, esthetic, organologic) elements in
every kind of music they listen outside the school, specially Folk and Classical Music.

I will implement the principles of the INNOVA Program in my Unit Plans in the following ways:

Enrichment Learning Drive Learning Reinforce learning

Accommodations?

New teaching strategies or assessment strategies used?

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Comments: During the second quarter the time with 8th grade was short, we missed some
sessions, nevertheless we studied the complete symphony organology; however the practical
learning is still missing. In third quarter we have two sessions in each week so we can embrace
this part and combine it with the next unit topic.