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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 varying notation involving eighth note rests on the board
❏ 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
❏ SWBAT maintain a steady pulse with what their rhythms, even when their
neighbor is playing something else
❏ SWBAT identify when the rhythms repeat

❏ 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
❏ Have students subdivide out loud
❏ Pick a rhythm on the board
❏ Have several students model this as, if they are willing!
❏ If not, you model the rhythm again, and have ensemble echo
❏ Split ensemble, one half plays a concert Eb, the other half claps.
❏ Repeat this but switch
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❏ Pick another rhythm and repeat all of these same steps

❏ Split group in half again, one half playing and one half clapping, but each half
plays their own rhythm
❏ Pick another rhythm and repeat these steps
❏ If necessary, have the shaker playing eighth notes and the cowbell playing quarter
notes
❏ Jungle Dance- starting in mm 57
❏ Just percussion
❏ Isolate it to agogo, cowbell, and guiro
❏ Isolate congas, claves, and cabasa
❏ Everyone starting in mm 57
❏ DYNAMICS
❏ 2nd trumpet part after 105 is also very important

❏ 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)

❏ Vocabulary: (What new terms will be learned or what terms will be reinforced in this
lesson?)
❏ Notation for 8th Note Rests will be reviewed
❏ Dynamics
❏ SPICE
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❏ 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