King 1

Lesson Plans Example:

Faith King

Subject: Music

Topic: UIL Music

Content: Warmups, Sightreading, and performance practice

Goals: The students will prepare for the UIL competition in the spring

- focusing on new sightreading piece to challenge their quick learning skills

- rehearse and perfect our three contest pieces

Materials: Individual Choir binders

Pencils

Sightreading Sheet Music

Performance Sheet Music

-Song 1

-Song 2

-Song 3
Procedure: 1. Have a warmup

 relating to targeted sections of UIL piece and sightreading

piece

o breath support

o open vowels

o dynamics

2. Hand out and perform new sight-reading piece

 Go through once with silence and solfège

 Focus on tricky areas for each section

 King 2

 Go through once more in silence

o Sing in your head

o Whisper sing

 Final performance

 Critic what went wrong after

 Go through once more

3. Song 1

 Work on specific sections

4. Song 2

 Work on specific sections

5. If time, work on specific sections in Song 3