Lesson Plan

Alex Drakulich

Choral Methods 2 students

March 11th

Concepts

- Diphthongs

- Breath marks

Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills for this rehearsal

Read/perform level 2 rhythm, rhythm, and melodic patterns

Curwen Hand Signs

Behavioral Objectives

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

- Demonstrate the ability to echo-translate Level 2 tonal and rhythmic

patterns (INAS4)

- Accurately Sight-Read exercises (INAS7)

- Perform mm. 0-22 of It’s My Song expressively (INAS7)

- Understand and perform a “Te” accidental in a piece of music (INAS5)

- Understand and correctly pronounce diphthongs when singing a piece of

music (INAS5)
Materials

Copy of It’s My Song

ELMO projector

Dry Erase board

Procedures

0:00 Vocal Technique

Breathing exercise (In for 4 out for 8,12,16- in for 2 out 8,12,16)

Sing “How now, brown Cow” on a single pitch from G-C with a focus on diphthongs

Sing (Deh-ee A-weh-ee) on 1-2-3 from DM-GM

0:04 Concept Instruction

Instruct meaning of Diphthong (A single syllable with two vowel sounds) through the

words “Day” and “Away” to connect to repertoire text (Connect it to monophthongs

“lonely”)

0:05 Mental Focus

Echo/Translate Level 2 pitch patterns in GM (Do-Re-Mi, Do-La-Sol, Sol-La-Ti,

Sol-La-Te, Do-Sol-La)

0:07 Music Literacy

Remind students of hand sign: if this is ti then what is this? (Te)

Sing: Curwen Hand signs in GM: (Do-Re-Mi-Sol, Do-La-Sol-Do, Sol-La-Ti, Sol-La-Te,

Sol-La-Te-Ti-Do)

Read Melodic exercise on Takadimi then Sing it and LOOP with added breath mark

0:12 Literature

Read

- I and III mm.4-8 Look familiar?

Teach by Rote

- Hear how I sing the word “Day”?

- II mm. 4-8

- All parts mm. 4-8

- Part I mm. 8-12

- Hear how I sing the word “Away”?

- II mm. 8-12

- III mm.8-12

- All parts mm. 4-12

Connect mm. 12-16 “Look Familiar?”

Tall vowel on “Lonely”

Sing mm. 5-8 then 12-16 all together

- I mm. 16-22 (Transition: you stay on the same note)

Reinforce breath mark concept at mm. 18

Assess: Where else should we put breath marks for these phrases? (mm. 12, 16 perhaps)
 - II mm. 16-22 (Transition: Mi-Sol)

- III 16-22 (Transition: you stay on the same note)

- All parts sing mm. 12-22

- All parts sing acapella mm. 5-22 repeat and focus on dynamic shaping

- Play introduction of piano and prepare parts for it.

0:24 Concepts Review/ Assessment

What are diphthongs again?

Another example of one outside of the text?

What is a breath mark?

0:25 Perform

Perform mm. 0-22 of It’s My Song with piano accompaniment