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 4

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

Music History
- Ancient Music
- Music in Middle Ages
- Renaissance
- The Baroque era

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable evidence

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

-The student will recognize music from different periods

1. Exams in which the teacher can evaluate the learning by listening to it.
process
-The student will understand the historical context of
2. Homework with further information about the music from different periods.
different subjects.
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3. Appropriated participation, audience and

concentration within the class

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:

Workshop, how music and history are related?

Music in the Ancient Times. Where does the word Music come from?
The middle Ages and the ancient times. Musical notation system. Where does the name of the musical notes
come from? Teacher explanation.
Renaissance. Polyphony what is that? Practical demonstration. Screening videos
The Baroque Era. The Protestant Reformation. Baroque era in art.
Baroque Music. Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi
Screening Videos

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 essential questions will you ask the students (give
What are they? them a context or framework for the unit)?

The student will understand the development of music
through Human History.
The student will understand the meaning of music in
each age of history.
How was the music in ancient Greece?
Can you establish a relationship between an specific kind
of music and an specific history time?
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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, especially 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?

Use of the online archive of the Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra provided by Granadino; Online music approaching tools
such as http://play.lso.co.uk-
For the practical demonstrations Finale Music Editor Software will be used.