Lesson Plan No.

110C

Date of Lesson
Teacher Erik Alvarado
School Dwayne Milburn Middle School
Grade Level 6th Grade
Content Area Choral Music
Topic Breathing
National Music PERFORMING: Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine - Evaluate and refine personal and
Standards ensemble performances, individually or in collaboration with others.
MU:Pr5.1.6a Identify and apply teacher-provided criteria (such as correct interpretation of
notation, technical accuracy, originality, and interest) to rehearse, refine, and determine
when a piece is ready to perform.
California Arts PERFORMING: AS5: Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation
Standards for Nov.MU:H.Pr5 Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique individual performances
Music of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies and chordal accompaniments
selected for performance, and apply practice strategies to address performance
challenges and refine the performances.
English Language Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways. B. Interpretive. 5. Listening actively to spoken
Development English in a range of social and academic contexts.
Standards
Learning By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
objectives 1. Breathe in using proper technique before humming a musical passage.
2. Utilize different lengths of breathing in.
3. Maintain proper breathing technique through different breath lengths.
Instructional 1. Metronome
Resources/ 2. Warm-Up Sheet Music
Materials 3. The Voice
Instructional 1. Instruct students to place both hands on their stomach.
strategies (what 2. Explain correct posture and the expansion of the belly when breathing in.
teacher does) 3. Have students breathe in for lengths of 8, 4, 2, and 1 count(s), and breathe out for
12 counts. Begin from longest to shortest count value.
4. Correct any unwanted tensing of the body.
5. Have students perform the same count structure for breathing in and hum the
provided warm-up.
Learning Tasks 1. Observe the movement of the belly when breathing in.
(what students do) 2. Observe how the body reacts to breathing in and look for any unwanted tension.
3. Breathe in at different count lengths while maintaining the correct posture.
4. Breathe out for 12 counts, utilizing all 12 counts in the release of the breath.
5. Hum along to a major scale for 12 counts, utilizing all counts in the release of the
breath.
Assessment of 1. Observe how students are breathing across different count lengths and assess if
Learning they are breathing correctly.
2. Observe whether students are correctly taking all counts to breathe in and out.
3. Observe whether the correct posture is used when performing the warm-up.
Adaptations/ 1. Students that require mobile accommodations may perform the warm-up while
accommodations sitting down using the correct posture to the best of their ability.
for students with 2. Visual aid by providing the sheet music via print or projection, along with
specific learning modeling should be provided in general.
needs
Post-observation During the presentation of this warm-up, I felt that I focused too much on building up to
Reflections (after the exercise when it would have been more efficient to jump into what is provided in the
reviewing video): sheet music given its relative simplicity.
What are the
lessons learned? While I have the use of a metronome listed above, I did not utilize one as an educational
What changes, if tool this time. It would have served me well during the presentation by allowing me to
any, will you make focus on the students more by subtracting keeping time as something to keep track of.
to the next lesson?
 Breathing Warm-Up
Musc 110C Arranged by: Erik Alvarado

4
& 4 .. ∑
Breathe in 8 counts
∑ œ œ œ œ ..
œ œ œ œ w
Hum (hmmm)

& .. ∑ .. 24
6
Breathe in 4 counts

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ w
Hum (hmmm)

2
& 4 .. ∑ 44 .. 41
10
Breathe in 2 counts

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ w
Hum (hmmm)

1
& 4 .. ∑ 44 ..
14
Breathe in 1 count

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ w
Hum (hmmm)