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Lesson Plan - First Rehearsal

Emily Johnson

Title: Hakuna Matata

Grade Level: 8
Standards (List specific SOLs that pertain specifically to YOUR objectives).
Virginia Standards: (SOL)
MCI.3 Students will demonstrate vocal techniques and choral skills
including: - Maintaining proper posture for choral singing (MCI.3.1)
- Using breathing techniques that support vocal production (MCI.3.2)
- Using correct intonation (MCI.3.6)
- Blending with other singers on the same vocal part (MCI.3.7)
- Using proper diction (i.e., pure vowel sounds, diphthongs, voiced and unvoiced
consonants) (MCI.3.8)

Objectives: (List specific, assessable items you want students to KNOW and BE ABLE TO DO).
As a result of the instruction, students will be able to: (observable skills- action verbs)

- Sing with proper diction

- Sit and stand with proper choral posture
- Express themselves musically through this piece

Materials (List the instructional materials you will need or use for the lesson. Why? I will know that you know
what you need to teach the lesson and will not be running around the room to find something you forgot.)

Score for each student, pencil, music stand for teacher, piano

Modifications: (List any modifications in the instructional setting or room that you must make for any child
who has special needs. Could be child with a broken leg. It could be using a microphone for a child with a hearing
deficiency. Has anyone encountered this yet?)

If a student has a broken leg, that student will sit rather than stand during rehearsal.
Procedures:

I. Introduction
1. Introduce piece (15 seconds)
2. Stretch (45 seconds)
3. Breathing exercises (30 seconds)
4. Diction exercise with piano (1 min)

II. Practice the piece (mm. 37-44)

5. Sing solfege for mm. 37-44 (2 min 30 sec)
6. Repeat after the teacher for vowel sounds in mm. 37-44 (1 min)
 7. Students sing part I of mm. 37-44 keeping diction in mind (1 min)

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8. Split the class into part I and part II and then switch (2 min)

III. Practice the piece (mm. 45-54)

9. Repeat steps 5-8 but with measures 45-54 instead (6 min)

Assessment: (The question of assessment is “How well do the students know the objectives or how well can they
do/apply/use the objectives?” Go back to the top of this format- your assessment starts here.)

Overall Outcomes:
Assessment for Each Outcome:
After learning the pieces, each student will…
I will document individual student achievement
with…

I will split students into smaller groups (3-4)

Sing this section of the piece with proper
diction, rhythm, and pitch while maintaining
good posture.

Blend well with other students of their same

voice part.

Use the specific dynamics written in the piece

(80%)

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to sing their section in front of the class. I will
assess whether or not each student in the
smaller groups is meeting the overall
outcomes (informal assessment).