For AP Music Theory, my cooperating teacher and I put together a unit on SATB

Part-Writing to help get them prepared for the upcoming AP Exam in May. Within this unit,

students will be able to write a progression in a SATB format with given Roman Numerals and

figured bass following 18th-Century voice leading rules. This will help assess their knowledge

for free responses questions five and six of the AP Exam.

The pre-assessment was done through a quiz on their previous unit on Counterpoint,

where they are only notating Soprano and Bass movements not the Alto and Tenor. For this unit,

I put together a couple of slides about some of the important factors that are commonly used

within different SATB Part-Writing examples such as cadences, harmonic function, different 6/4

chords, and secondary dominants. When learning about SATB Part-Writing, I would lead the

class together in completing a couple of problems as a group to help them understand how to

tackle these questions when seen in the free response section of the AP Exam. The

post-assessment was an assignment put together on Google Classroom, where students would go

and complete the given SATB Part-Writing exercise in D Minor after working on the A Major

example in class.

After completing the entire unit, I noticed that students were able to gain more of a grasp

on the concept of voice-leading rules to follow, what cadences are and how to properly identify

them, and create a progression without having any errors. There was improvement within the

student efficacy on answering the questions and a better understanding of why some ways you

can part-write are better than others ways. Also, the amount of students who were eagerly

wanting to participate and share their answers grew over the course of the unit because they felt

more comfortable with the concepts taught within the unit. I personally feel like after teaching
this unit to the students they feel more comfortable and prepared to tackle these questions on the

AP Exam.