Tuesday:

5th Grade - C Week

Standards Being Addressed:

Re7.2.5a Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how responses to music are informed by
the structure, the use of elements of music, and context (such as social, cultural, and historical)

Materials:
● Into the Unknown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIOyB9ZXn8s
● Panic! At the Disco Into the Unknown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp-CVYGEsjg
● Musette

Objective: Students will listen to music, and describe the expressive elements being used in
that music. Students will describe why they did or did not like a piece of music using musical
elements vocabulary.

Activity #1: Attendance

Activity #2: Into the Unknown Expressive Elements

1. Review Expressive Elements
a. Articulation, Tempo, Dynamics
2. Listen to Panic! At The Disco Version (4min)
a. What expressive elements did you hear?
3. Listen to movie version
a. What expressive elements did you hear?
4. Which version do you like better and why? Talk with your neighbors
a. Make sure students are using the terminology of the expressive elements we
have learned when they are talking with their partner about what they did and
didn’t like

Activity #3: Musette

1. Explain what they are going to listen to
a. Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFarland
2. Listen for the expressive elements
3. What did you hear?
a. What happened to the tempo?
b. How did Bobby’s voice change?
c. How did the use of expressive elements contribute to your experience of the
piece?

Assessment: Were students able to identify the expressive elements being used in these
songs? When they were discussing if they liked them or not with their neighbors, were they
using the vocabulary words they have learned?