Task 4- Lesson Plan
ELEMENT:
 Rhythm
 Melody
 Harmony
 Form
 Timbre/Texture
 Expressive Qualities
MATERIALS:
 Overhead metranome
 Violin to model on
 Capriol score
 Afterburn score
 Christmas Portrait score
 All I Want For Christmas
is You score
National Music Standards:
 Creating
 Performing
 Responding
 Connecting
Specific State Standard:
Standard L1.MI.P.8: Watch
and respond appropriately to
the conductor and perform
with technical accuracy,
utilizing appropriate phrasing,
dynamics, style, tempo,
balance, and blend to express
ideas and emotions.
Grade Level: Middle School Orchestra 3
Concepts: Tempo, Dynamics, Style, Balance, Phrasing
OBJECTIVES / LEARNING GOALS:
1. Students will know what they need to fix on their concert music
at home.
2. Students will play their music in time and keep a steady tempo
with 100% accuracy.
3. Students will play their music with dynamic and emotional
contrast.
4. Students will play their music with the correct style, balance, and
phrasing.
PROCEDURE:
Warm-up:
Model then have students play a two octave G major scale in ¾ time
using the following rhythm D R U, D R U, etc… (D=down bow; R=rest;
U=up bow) Play the scale with then without the metronome set to 128
bpm. Focus on getting it to be short and energetic like the style of
Capriol.
Capriol:
Play through Capriol. Make sure students are playing with correct
dynamics, style, balance, phrasing, and all with uniform bowings. Repeat
any passages that are not played correctly. Play it with the metronome
then without.
Afterburn:
Play through Afterburn. Repeat any passages that are not played
correctly.
Christmas Portrait:
Play through Christmas Portrait. Repeat any passages that are not played
correctly.
All I Want for Christmas Is You:
Play through All I Want for Christmas. Focus on and fix a passage that is
not played correctly. (Measures 11-31?)
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ASSESSMENT:

We are working on concert music as a class; so individual formal assessments won’t be made. Instead, I
will be informally assessing how well the group plays as a whole and what we need to keep working on in
the future.