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: