Mr.

Michels 1

Lesson Plan
❏ Subject: Concert Band
❏ Age Level: 7-8th Grade
❏ Teacher Resources: (What do you need to be able to teach this lesson?)
❏ My Trumpet
❏ Score to Jungle Dance
❏ Blackboard

❏ Student Resources: (What do students need to be able to learn?)

❏ Music to Jungle Dance
❏ Their instruments

❏ Objectives: (What Will Students Learn and Be Able to Do by the End of this Lesson?)
❏ SWBAT play steady eighth notes, dropping 2 downbeats
❏ 1+(2)+3+4+
❏ 1+2+(3)+4+
❏ SWBAT identify which rhythms I am modeling to those that are on the board
❏ Basically a multiple choice rhythmic dictation
❏ SWBAT to repeat these rhythms that I am modeling on the board

❏ Lesson Description: (Is it clear and concise?)

❏ Introduction with Rhythmic exercise
❏ Play 4 Quarter Notes, Have Students Repeat
❏ Play 8 Eighth Notes, Have Students Repeat
❏ Model 4 eighth notes on downbeats, snap on offbeats
❏ Have students subdivide out loud
❏ Play 3 different patterns
❏ Have students use the notation on the board to figure out which one is
being played
❏ Have several students model this as well, if they are willing!
❏ If not, you model the rhythm again, and have ensemble echo
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❏ Jungle Dance- starting in mm 17

❏ Have trumpets play melody here, play with them
❏ Have saxes play their part
❏ Trumpets and saxes play
❏ Percussion play at mm 17
❏ Add everyone at mm 17
❏ Shape the phrases and entrances of different instruments until mm 49
❏ Trumpet lines playing horn cues
❏ Trumpet parts in mm 40
❏ Mm. 33 trumpets (horns) and low brass
❏ Percussion too
❏ Then add melody parts back in
❏ Mm 49
❏ Isolate Low Brass, Toms
❏ Have everyone clap
❏ Model for them as people count, low brass air guitar
❏ Play along with low brass and toms
❏ Everyone at 49 → build to mm 57
❏ Play from beginning if there is time

❏ Lesson Rationale: (What is the purpose of this lesson?)

❏ To strengthen independence of rhythm on 8th notes
❏ To isolate rhythmic issues later in the piece
❏ Start adding interesting dynamic changes later in the piece
❏ Isolate percussion parts

❏ Procedures: (What processes, strategies, and tasks will you use to meet the objectives?)
❏ Interactive playing
❏ Modeling
❏ Student engagement (through questions)
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❏ Vocabulary: (What new terms will be learned or what terms will be reinforced in this
lesson?)
❏ Notation for 8th Note Rests will be reviewed
❏ Crescendo
❏ SPICE

❏ Assessment: (How will student learning be assessed in this lesson?)

❏ If students are able to answer the questions that I ask
❏ If students are engaged and answering questions
❏ If students can echo the rhythms that I model
❏ If they are playing their instruments at the appropriate times