Mr. Suzelis’ Lesson Plans for the Week of March18, 2013

Class/Period /
Choir 5th Grade -
1st period
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Choir 6th Grade -
2nd period
/ Choir 7th Grade –
3rd period / Choir 8th grade –
4th period
Time / 7:29-8:22, room 501 / 8:24-9:07; room 501 / 9:09-9:52; room 501 / 9:54-10:37; room 501
MONDAY _3_/_18_/_2013 / Attendance(w/Band);Muscle Movers #1, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.Listen to concert CD of Star Spangled Banner; Peace Drum Song,Cripple Creek; Alleluia-Jubilate!, The Power of Music;Why We Sing.
Write comments for each piece / Attendance(w/Band);Muscle Movers #1, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.Listen to concert CD of Star Spangled Banner; Peace Drum Song, Cripple Creek; Alleluia-Jubilate!, The Power of Music; Why We Sing.
Write comments for each piece / Attendance(w/Band);Muscle Movers #1, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.Listen to concert CD of We The People, Letters From War, The Lonely Sea,3 Russian Folk Songs,Ain’t No Mt. High Enough
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SA ensemble (Voice From A Dream) / Attendance(w/Band);Muscle Movers #1, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.Sing We The People, Letters From War, The Lonely Sea,3 Russian Folk Songs, Ain’t No Mt. High Enough
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SA ensemble (The Clouds)
TUESDAY _3/_19_ / Attendance;Muscle Movers #2, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.ReviewKyrie Gregorianus, Guitar Man, Whoa Mule Whoa!Look at This Old Man, Chumbara, I Can’t Sing Purty, Dr. Eisenbart, Everybody Has Music Inside / Attendance;Muscle Movers #2, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer. SingHitori, Um-Skit-a-Rat-Trap-Si-Si-Do, Seek and You Will Find, The Risin’ of the Moon, Everybody Has Music Inside, Mad!, Froggy, Chase Your Blues Away, / Attendance;Muscle Movers #2, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.Sing3 Russian Folk Songs, Greenland Whalers, She’ll Coming ‘Round the Mountain, The Lonely Sea / Attendance;Muscle Movers #2, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.
Haylee B. -.,Carissa F.–solos. SingShe’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mt., Something Told the Wild Geese, 3 Russian Folk Songs, The Lonely Sea
WEDNESDAY _3_/_20_ / Attendance (w/Band);Muscle Movers #3,Vocal warm-ups,The Sight Singer.
ReviewKyrie Gregorianus, Guitar Man, Whoa Mule Whoa! Look at This Old Man, Chumbara, I Can’t Sing Purty, Dr. Eisenbart, Everybody Has Music Inside / Attendance(w/Band);Muscle Movers #3, Vocal warm-ups.The Sight Singer.
SingSingHitori, Um-Skit-a-Rat-Trap-Si-Si-Do, Seek and You Will Find, The Risin’ of the Moon, Everybody Has Music Inside, Mad!, Froggy, Chase Your Blues Away, / Attendance(w/Band);Muscle Movers #3, Vocal warm-ups, BoysEnsemble practice (Drink to Me Only).SingShe’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mt., Something Told the Wild Geese, 3 Russian Folk Songs, The Lonely Sea / Attendance(w/Band);Muscle Movers #3, Vocal warm-ups.SingShe’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mt., Something Told the Wild Geese, 3 Russian Folk Songs, The Lonely Sea
THURSDAY __3_/_21_ / Attendance;Muscle Movers #4, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.ReviewKyrie Gregorianus, Guitar Man, Whoa Mule Whoa! Look at This Old Man, Chumbara, I Can’t Sing Purty, Dr. Eisenbart, Everybody Has Music Inside. / Attendance;Muscle Movers #4, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer. SingSingHitori, Um-Skit-a-Rat-Trap-Si-Si-Do, Seek and You Will Find, The Risin’ of the Moon, Everybody Has Music Inside, Mad!, Froggy, Chase Your Blues Away, / Attendance;Muscle Movers #4, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.SingShe’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mt., Something Told the Wild Geese, 3 Russian Folk Songs, The Lonely Sea Sea / Attendance;Muscle Movers #4, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.Kaitlyn H, Tonya H-solo
SingShe’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mt., Something Told the Wild Geese, 3 Russian Folk Songs, The Lonely Sea
FRIDAY _3_/_22_ / Attendance;Muscle Movers= Face In The Crowd,Vocal warm-ups,The Sight Singer. ReviewKyrie Gregorianus, Guitar Man, Whoa Mule Whoa! Look at This Old Man, Chumbara, I Can’t Sing Purty, Dr. Eisenbart, Everybody Has Music Inside / Attendance;Muscle Movers= Face In The Crowd, Vocal warm-ups.The Sight Singer. SingSingHitori, Um-Skit-a-Rat-Trap-Si-Si-Do, Seek and You Will Find, The Risin’ of the Moon, Everybody Has Music Inside, Mad!, Froggy, Chase Your Blues Away, / Attendance;Muscle Movers= Face In The Crowd, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.
SingShe’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mt., Something Told the Wild Geese, 3 Russian Folk Songs, The Lonely Sea / Attendance;Muscle Movers= Face In The Crowd, Vocal warm-ups, The Sight Singer.Solos- Pollyanna, Monique
SingShe’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mt., Something Told the Wild Geese, 3 Russian Folk Songs, The Lonely Sea
Planning/Lunch 5th Period / 6th Grade General music 6th period / 7th Grade General music 7th Period / 8th Grade General Music 8th Period / After School
10:39-12:09 / 12:11-12:54; Room 501 / 12:56-1:39; Room 501 / 1:41-2:25; Room 501 / 2:30-3:15

Planning &

Lunch

/ Talk about recorders.
Define texture. Compare Greensleeves on p.8-9 to Rockin’ Down the Highway –Doobie Brothers for texture (layers of sound). Review definitions for quiz. If time, draw a drum set on board, having students copy & label.) / Discuss two eighth notes, half rest. Play/clap rhythms in both lines if possible. Have students play white (top) rhythms on large sound shapes, yellow (bottom) on small, p. 7. Play p.8 rhythms, one part at a time. / Continue with 1st string notes – E, F, G, p.8. Watch video of guitar basics. Review information on treble staff, alphabet letters used in music (top & middle of page 6 in book. – Work on Music Notation (page 2) of music theory together in class. / Merissa K, Matt W., Brittany R.-solos
Planning & Lunch / Quiz on first 10 definitions, then on drum set parts. Play recorders, using Recorder Basix book, ending with papers. / Using sound shapes, play p. 8 &9 rhythms. Read pages 10-12, doing activity on p. 13, “Day By Day”. Grade in class; Continue reading p. 14-15, if time, defining form, play, musical, opera. / Continue with 1st string notes – E, F, G, p.8-9; half notes and quarter notes. Discuss tablature and how to read it (bottom of page 6 in book). If time, p.9 #6 / Holly R.-solo
SA Ensemble-The Clouds
Planning & Lunch / Listen to Lonesome Valley, p. 10; identifying what sounds were heard. Fill in informational chart on notes, names, value, counting and add parts’ names. Do activity to review information. / Finish reading p. 14-15. Work on meter (defining duple meter, triple meter, measure, bar lines) and dynamics (p-piano, f-forte). Use pt-clap & pat-clap-snap as well as tennis balls and different sound shapes to reinforce.
Try conducting patterns in duple & triple meters.) / Continue with 1st string notes – E, F, G, p. 9, #5-6. Review for playing test. If time, have students work on p3 of music theory while grading playing tests.) / Elizabeth A, Destiny G.,
Alexis Cottrell-solo solos
Planning & Lunch / Review for quiz on note parts; take quiz.
After having volunteers read words to rhythms, listen to Slow Down, p. 11; practice playing rhythms on sound shapes.
Chart dynamic marks / Review for test on definitions 8-19; administer test.
Begin work on C-scale on piano (identify “D”, find C & E, play C-D-E-F, then C-scale) Playing test on C-scale on piano. Look at 1st two lines of Bottletop Song to play on piano. / Practice and finish testing on p.8 #2 variations. Continue with guitar's 1st string notes – E, F, G, p.8-9, working on Folk Song, Flamenco Fantasy, and The Blues Beat. / Tanner G-solo
8th TB ensemble-Our Principal’s A Pirate
Planning & Lunch / Finish chart of dynamic marks; drill and practice for quiz/worksheet, and include crescendo & decrescendo. Utilize dynamics in the poem “Slow Down”. Review information on dynamic marks. Show how they may be evaluated on information / Make-up playing test on C-scale on piano.
Look at 1st two lines of Bottletop Song to play on piano.
Work on 3rd phrase of Bottletop Song. / Continue with 1st string notes – E, F, G, p.8-9; half notes and quarter notes. Discuss tablature and how to read it (bottom of page 6 in book). If time, p.9 #6 / Courtney M., Olivia S.
Cheyenne A solos