TEACHING SCHEDULE
Live Music
Compulsory Secondary Education
Music
UNIT 1
Term 1 Assessment
Unit 1: It Sounds Like This
TIMING:Session 1
OBJECTIVES:
- To provide students with context for the unit.
- To present a summary of the content of the unit.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Exploring prior knowledge.
- Reading text aloud.
- Underlining the most relevant concepts.
- Completing activities in the book.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student pays attention and shows interest.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 2.
OBJECTIVES:
- To understand the concept of acoustics.
- To learn the different qualities of sound.
CONTENTS:
- The qualities of sound.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Exploring prior knowledge.
- Looking for information in teams.
- Defining acoustics and presenting the qualities of sound.
- Individual reading of the information on the page.
- Listening to the recorded extracts that demonstrate qualities of sound.
- Completing the activities on the page.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation:
- Writing the missing vowels in the word which follows each quality of sound.
Extension:
- Reading the text and choosing the correct sentence.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student understands that sound is the physical sensation produced in the ear when objects vibrate.
- The student understands the four basic parameters of sound.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 3
OBJECTIVES:
- To learn about rhythm in theory and practice.
- To become familiar with the concepts of beat, rhythm and time signature.
- To become familiar with notes and rests.
CONTENTS:
- Rhythm.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Performing rhythmic echoes with body percussion.
- Presenting notes, accents and time signatures.
- Reading the information in the book.
- Observing and memorising the terms and signs presented.
- Singing the scores presented.
- Completing the activities on the page.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Looking at the scores and writing in the missing notes.
- Looking at the picture and colouring it by following the code.
Extension
- Looking at the scores and analysing the time signature.
- Completing the bars freely.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student recognises and understands the concepts of rhythm, beat and time signature.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 4
OBJECTIVES:
- To perform and create individually and as part of a group.
- To read a score in order to practise items of the language of music previously studied.
- To generate simple creative activities using the echo form.
CONTENTS:
- The echo.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Performing the rhythmic rap texts.
- Reading the scores using knowledge about the language of music already acquired.
- Remembering the signs used on a musical score.
- Performing texts with varied forms of expression.
- Presenting the echo form.
- Practising the echo form by repeating it.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Finding the musical form that has been studied.
Extension
- Interpretar un ritmo que será repetido por los compañeros.
- Performing a rhythm that is then repeated by classmates.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student understands and performs the echo musical form.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 5
OBJECTIVES:
- To learn about percussion instruments.
- To do a listening task which includes sounds of the instruments studied.
CONTENTS:
- Percussion instruments.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Exploring the students’ existing knowledge.
- Reading information in the book aloud.
- Underlining the most relevant concepts.
- Watching a video of the instruments studied.
- Presenting the composer and the work.
- Doing a listening task.
- Engaging in activities that deepen understanding.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Identifying images of percussion instruments.
- Categorising instruments according to the materials they are made of.
Extension
- Learning about the snare drum and describing it.
- Writing a short essay about the instruments from the region where students live.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student learns that there are many percussion instruments and that they can be very different from each other.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 6
OBJECTIVES:
- To perform a simple piece as an instrumental ensemble.
CONTENTS:
- Body percussion.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Imitating the teacher’s demonstration.
- Experimenting with the different sounds of body percussion.
- Discovering the sounds of body percussion as a means of expression.
- Reading the signs that appear on a score.
- Learning rhythm.
- Performing a piece.
- Improvising rhythms and sounds using body percussion.
- Memorising rhythmic patterns.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Performing the suggested activities individually at a slower speed.
Extension
- Performing the piece while modifying the sound qualities.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student learns that there are many percussion instruments and that they can be very different from each other.
- The student learns the different percussion instruments, categorising them in terms of the materials they are made of and the sounds they produce.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
- TIMING: Session 7
OBJECTIVES:
- To present the voice as the primary instrument of music and expression.
- To learn about the differences and similarities between speech and song.
- To perform a song in unison, developing articulation and vocalisation skills.
CONTENTS:
- The spoken voice and the sung voice.
- Performing as a group.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Reading the information on the page.
- Learning about different characteristics of the voice.
- Doing activities for vocalisation and for warming up the voice.
- Performing a song.
- Singing while focusing on breathing, vocalisation and tuning.
- Doing the activities presented on the page.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Responding to the statements.
Extension
- Completing a brief text.
- Performing the song presented on the extra score.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student appreciates that the voice is complex means of communication.
- The student performs a song while paying attention to tuning, breathing and vocalisation.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session8
OBJECTIVES:
- To do an active listening task.
- To follow a musicogramme.
CONTENTS:
- The overture
- The musical form.
- The beat.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Reading the information in the text.
- Listening to the music several times.
- Presenting the composer and the work.
- Looking at the images and the accompaniment.
- Watching a video of the performance, focusing on the position of the orchestra and the instruments which can be seen.
- Completing the musical activities.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Listening to the music and writing a summary of the plot.
Extension
- Finding a different recording and commenting on it.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student engages in the active listening task.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 9
OBJECTIVES:
- To learn about aspects of film music.
- To perform part of a soundtrack with the score of an arrangement.
CONTENTS:
- Film music.
- Soundtracks.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Reading the information on the page aloud or in silence.
- Choosing a film scene which lends itself to the use of a soundtrack.
- Setting the narrative to sound effects and music.
- Completing the activities on the page.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Filling out a worksheet.
Extension
- Completing a text.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student appreciates the role of music in film through the use of soundtracks.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 10
OBJECTIVES:
- To enact an individual choreography.
CONTENTS:
- Dance.
- Thetempo.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Listening to the recording and following the beat freely using body percussion.
- Learning and enacting the choreography.
- A summary of the contents of the unit in the Da Capo section.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Enacting the choreography in pairs.
Extension
- Creating a new choreography with two pairs.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student carries out an individual choreography accompanied with body percussion.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
UNIT 2
TERM 1 ASSESSMENT
Unit 2:Something for Everyone
TIMING: Session 1
OBJECTIVES:
- For the student to engage with the context of the unit.
- To present a summary of the content of the unit.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Exploring the students’ existing knowledge.
- Reading the text aloud.
- Underlining the most relevant concepts.
- Doing the activities presented in the book.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student pays attention and shows interest.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 2.
OBJECTIVES:
- To learn about different kinds of music and musical genres.
CONTENTS:
- Musical genres.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Exploring prior knowledge.
- Looking for information in teams.
- Defining the content and categories.
- Individual reading of the information on the page.
- Listening to the musical extracts.
- Completing the activities on the page.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation:
- Writing in the missing vowel in the word that follows each quality of sound.
Extension:
- Finding out about wedding marches.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student understands that music is a form of expression and communication that is as old as mankind.
- The student appreciates that music has had a diverse array of social functions throughout history.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 3
OBJECTIVES:
- To learn about melody in theory and practice.
- To become familiar with the symbols that represent pitch.
CONTENTS:
- Melody.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Reading and looking at the information on the page.
- Singing different melodic sequences.
- Identifying ascending and descending sequences.
- Presenting the keyboard.
- Presenting and listening to sharps and flats on a melodic instrument.
- Reading and commenting on sharps, flats and naturals (when indicated by the key signature and when they are accidentals).
- Examples of sharps, flats and naturals, including accidentals.
- Completing the activities on the page.
MIXED ABILITY:
Review
- Looking at the scores and writing each term in its corresponding place.
- Identifying each note with its name.
Extension
- Learning to write the bass clef.
- Writing the note names as appropriate.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student defines melody as the combination of different pitches integrated with rhythm.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 4
OBJECTIVES:
- To perform and create individually and as part of a group.
- To use a score in order to practise elements of the language of music already studied.
- To generate simple creative activities.
CONTENTS:
- Performance.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Listening to the recorded track.
- Learning the song.
- Looking at the score and the symbols that appear on it.
- Learning the rhythm and notes.
- Performing the score.
- Presenting improvisation and reading a definition of it.
- Improvisation based on a given theme.
- Improvisation with tuned percussion or singing.
- Doing the musical activities presented on the page.
MIXED ABILITY:
Review
- Improvising with a single note using a given rhythm.
Extension
- Improvising a melody.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student participates in a group performance.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 5
OBJECTIVES:
- To learn about woodwind instruments.
- To do a listening task that includes sounds of the instruments studied.
CONTENTS:
- Woodwind instruments.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Exploring the students’ existing knowledge.
- Reading information in the book aloud.
- Underlining the most relevant concepts.
- Watching a video that features the instruments studied.
- Presenting the composer and the work.
- Doing a listening task.
- Completing a chart with the instruments presented in different categories.
- Engaging with the musical activities.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Identifying images of the instruments and their names.
- Recognising all the instruments in the images and circling those of the woodwind family.
Extension
- Finding information about the saxophone.
- Finding recordings of the music presented.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student gains further knowledge of woodwind instruments.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 6
OBJECTIVES:
- To perform the score of an arrangement as an ensemble.
CONTENTS:
- The recorder.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Reading and commenting on the information in the book.
- Learning the technique for playing the recorder.
- Performing a piece of music.
- Engaging with the musical activities presented on the page.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Performing ascending and descending musical scales.
- Learning simple melodies or remembering those learned in primary education.
Extension
- Learning to play sharps and flats.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student reads a score to perform an arrangement as part of a group.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 7
OBJECTIVES:
- To present the voice as the primary instrument of music and expression.
- To learn a simple categorisation of the different kinds of human voice.
- To perform a song in unison.
CONTENTS:
- Categorising the human voice.
- Performing as a group.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Reading the information on the page.
- Exercises relating to different kinds of breathing.
- A presenting with information about the song.
- Learning the song through imitation.
- Singing while concentrating on breathing, vocalisation and tuning.
- Task using the song lyrics.
- Performing the song.
- Watching a music video of the song.
- Engaging in the activities on the page.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Responding to the statements.
Extension
- Doing research in order to respond to the question.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student understands that the voice is a musical instrument and understands how voices are categorised.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 8
OBJECTIVES:
- To do an active listening task.
- To follow a musicogram.
CONTENTS:
- The choir.
- The different parts of a piece of music.
FOCUS OF THE SESSION:
- Reading the information in the text.
- Listening to the music several times.
- Presenting the composer and the work.
- Paying close attention to a recording and answering the questions.
- Engaging with the musical activities.
MIXED ABILITY:
Consolidation
- Looking at the photographs of the instruments, circling the oboe and crossing out the percussion instruments.
Extension
- Listening to another extract from the same work.
ASSESSMENT:
What to assess?
- The student engages in an active listening task.
How to assess?
- Using the suggested class activities.
- By observing the students.
- Considering students’ participation in classroom activities.
- Assessing students’ abilities with regard to identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
TIMING: Session 9
OBJECTIVES:
- To learn about aspects of film music.
- To perform an arrangement of a soundtrack using a score.
CONTENTS: