Lesson Plan: Stage 1: Desired Results

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Natalie Ct March, 2017

Lesson Plan

Subject/Grade: Band, Grade 6 Lesson/Date: Monday, March 13th


Room: #119, Music Room Time: 11:03-11:45 *always let out 5 min. early*

Stage 1: Desired Results


GLEs: Students will:
- Recognize, interpret, and perform rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and
expression as they appear in musical notation. (Performing 2)
SLEs: Students will:
- Perform three dynamic levels demonstrating crescendo and decrescendo (D2)
- Demonstrate proper playing position (TS2)
Learning Students will:
Objectives - Perform (B) the correct dynamics (P) of Go for Excellence! (M). (Domain:
Cognitive and Psychomotor)
- Demonstrate (B) balance by listening to each other (P) in Step-Up March (M).
(Domain: Cognitive and Psychomotor)

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence


Formative Questions Summative
Assessment Discussion Assessment
Listening

Stage 3: Learning Experience


Prior to Print lesson plan and Resources Standard of Excellence book
Lesson: highlight key parts so I can to Bring: 1
see the important steps. Step-Up March score
Have student list with me
Time: Content/Description Notes/Assessments:
11:03- Introduction:
11:10 Learn names of the low brass section as they set up their
instruments
Warm-up Listen for tonguing,
rhythm, and pitch
Bb concert moving up the scale: repeat my rhythm accuracy. (F)
o Remind them not to overblow (tone quality)
o Watch posture, remind them
o Breath only breathe at the very end of the phrase Remember, dont
talk too much, keep
Body: the class moving
11:10- Standard of Excellence, Book 2
11:20 #154 Grant Us Peace, run it Count the hands up
#155 Go for Excellence! (out loud) before
choosing someone to
o Ask if they have played it before answer. (F)
o What does Moderato mean? Moderately.
o Point out dynamics in the second line
Lets try overdoing it but still make the
forte by the last two measures louder than
anything else.

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Natalie Ct March, 2017
11:20- Step-Up March
11:35 Section E:
o Run with pick up note from tenor sax, trombone,
baritone and bass!
o Play E: Everyone who starts on a rest at E including
snare (flutes, clarinets, alto saxophones, and trumpets)
o Play E: Everyone else including bass drum (tenor
sax, trombones, baritones, and basses)
o When you are just listening to others play, notice how
their part fits into yours and the listen for that when
you join in
Sections A and B: Remember good
o Play A+B: flutes, 1st alto sax, 1st trumpet tone and posture
o Play A+B: trombone, baritone, 2nd clarinet
o Listen for each other! Run the section.
o Make sure they are playing rhythms evenly
Sections C and D:
o Play: percussion and bass (do we have a bass?)
o Play: 2nd and 3rd clarinet, 2nd alto sax, tenor sax,
trombone, baritone, and bass (last measure of C needs
to be strong) Listen to the altered
o Play C: flutes, alto sax, trumpets pitches in the
o Run the section melody (F)

11:35- Closure:
11:40 Assign what to work on at home, including their playing test
coming up on_____________ (write it on the whiteboard)
o Clarify the scales on page 42, practice this week
Say grace with them before lunch
Ask students to put their instruments away

Stage 4: Reflection
What went well? What could be done differently?
I told the students I wanted to learn eight Can I get another piece to work on with
names today, and started by listing the them? Possibly Mr. B?
names I know already. Got them more I didnt get past section E in Step-Up
engaged. Skipped Grant Us Peace so we could get
Step-Up March is going well, they enjoy going faster
the piece.
o Alternating rhythm in E section: I
pointed it out, we played the two
parts separately, then we played
together while I pointed at the part
who was playing to show how they
alternated. Lots of progress here.

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