Fine Arts Curriculum Map

First Grade

Draft 4/21/08

 

ESSENTIAL QUESTION (optional)

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August            EALR's in Brackets [ ]

Welcome/Logistics/Goals  [4.5]       What Makes Sound? [1.1.1]

Classroom Expectations                     Team Building Games                        Vibration/Science Experiments

* List Qualities and Demonstrate the two rules: 1.) Respectful Behavior/ Attitude and 2.) Making Safe Choices for ourselves and with others.                                               *Identify the moving part of the item: the sound generator stimuli.

Rule Reminders/Music Award Medals & Gummi Bears                          also…Evidence for Learning includes: Performance Assessments, Personal Communication/Observation, Written Work, Daily Work, and Cummulative Written Tests (Pre- and Post Tests)

*1-2-3 Magic by T. Phelan                                        *Kodaly Technique: Spiraling "Prep, Point, and Practice" Lesson Plans.                                                                                    *Orff and Laban Techniques: composition and kinesthetic levels                

September                        Please note that concepts and questions spiral throughout the year.

What is Singing? [1.1.1] What New Songs can we Learn? [1.3; 3.1; 3.2] What Old Songs can you share? [4.3] What is Steady Beat? [1.1.1; 1.2; 2.2; 3.1 ] What is Vocal vs. Instrumental Music? [1.1.1] How do you play and take care of (non-pitched) Percussion Family Instruments? [1.1.2; 3.3]

<Buidling up a Repertoire of Music Literature: Revolving focus years      A & B:                                              A = Traditional American Music from around the States; B = Ethnic and World Music from every continent>                                        A years: '00- 01,'02-03 ,'04-05,'06-07, etc.                                            B Years: '01-02, '03-04, '05-06, etc.   

* Keeping steady beat within their bodies (groups of 8 and 16) in a variety of ways              *Distinguishing between the Speaking, Shouting, Whisper, and Singing Voices.                                   *Categorizing the non-pitched Percussion Family Instruments by Playing Technique.                   *Practicing proper playing form and etiquette.

Skill Level Rubric:                                                           --- = no evidence of skill                  D = Developing  (w/ Hand over Hand instructor help)                                              E = Emmerging (independent but not always accurate)                                           P = Participating with near accuracy                                         M = Mastery

*Kodaly and Orff Materials, charts, games….                                                                                                                                                   *Song Books: Library of Children's Song Classics,; Wee Sing Series; Reader's Digest Series of Children's Songs; Hal Leonard; old FSD curriculum books and materials : Silver Burdett and Holt's "Exploring Music"; Branches and Roots (ethnic music), Voices of Forgotten Worlds, Voices of the World,

October

Continuation of above plus…     What is(Music Vocabulary:) Metronome, Steady Beat? [1.1.1; 1.1.2 ; 3.1; 4.1]                                                                    What does a Music Concert look like and how do we best prepare for our audience?   [1.2; 2.2; 3.2; 4.3; 4.4]                                      What are the other Instrument Families? [1.1.1; 1.3]

*Culture and History of individual songs per A or B year (See above)      *Melodic and Rhythmic Games to reinforce lyrics and steady beat.                                                *Conductor Cues & Riser Safety        *Vocal Enunciation and Breath Support/Posture                                  *ABC Musical Instrument Rap (This continues throughout the year, adding a few key instruments at a time.

*Distinguish function and parts of a metronome.                                        *Demonstrate maturing form of steady beat.                                         *Demonstrate proper response to conductor's verbal and hand-sign cues for:  "Rest Position", "Ready Position" and "Play Position" and "Stop/Cut Off" (both with student body and instrument.)                        *Categorize Music Rap Instruments by family, playing tech. and size.

See Skill Level Rubric

Con't from above:  Folk Songs of North America, etc....                    *Library and Internet Research items                                         *Personal Collection of World and American CDs for audio listening lessons.                          *Classroom sets of simple percussive instruments                    *ABC music pictures, posters, and Music Audio Bingo-type games.

November

Continuation of previous plus…     What is…(Music Vocabulary:) Tempo, Largo, Presto?  [1.1.1; 1.1.2; 3.1; 4.1]                                   Music Notation: How do we record the Rhythm Patterns we hear? [1.1.2]                                                               

Continuation of above plus…             *Music Games in various speeds   *Paschen in groups of 8 with adding "double time"                                                *Formal training in Steady Beat vs. Rhythm Patterns using stick notation: "Tah" (quarter note), "Ti-Ti" (eighth note) and "Tah Rest" (quarter rest) both visual and aural.                               

*Identify the tempo changes in a given piece of aural music.               *Determine if a piece is largo, presto or somewhere in between.     *Identify/distinguish different simple rhythmic patterns by visual and aural stimuli from amongst a group of three patterns.                      

See Skill Level Rubric

*Music Vocab Cards                          *Bug Pre-stick notation cards and pocket chart

December

Short Month focus:      Demonstration and Public Performance of Music Learning Thus Far…. WINTER CONCERT [3.1; 3.2; 3.3; 4.1]

Continuation of above plus….            *Working in large and small group units (whole/part singing and playing)                                     

*Demonstrates style of work through feelings, body and facial expressions, and vocal dynamics.      *Synthesizes and communicates music and team work learning for public purpose (concert).

See Skill Level Rubric                      Concert Closure/Feed-back Personal Discussion

PAC and Theatrical Props and Equipment

January

How do we create our own songs?  [1.1.1; 1.1.2; 4.3]                                            What is (Music Vocab) Rhythm?  [1.1.1]                                               A year = Composers: (rotates) John Philips Sousa, George M. Cohan, and/or Woody Guthrie                                                   B Year = Composers: Scott Joplin's African Influence, and/or Sergey Prokofiev; Peter Tchaikovsky;  Beau  Soliel's Acadien (Cajun/Zydeco)  [1.3; 4.4]

*Pre-staff notation skills: 4/4, groups of four steady beat lines.                   *Adding to our stick notation: "Toe" (half-note) and "Ticka-Ticka" (sixteenth notes)                                      *Composer lessons

*Write a full measure's worth of correct rhythm patterns from aural clues in 2/4 and 4/4 time.                 *Flex the pitch of the voice to follow a simple relative melodic contour map.                                       *Identify a piece of music from our composer of study and three simple facts about their life or work.

See Skill Level Rubric                                           Rhythm Pattern Transparencies   <same/different, 2 through 4 pattern differenciations, etc.>

DVD's, Videos, Art Work, Story/Picture Books; Big Books, etc.

February

What is (Music Vocab) Pitch? [1.1.2]  What visual clues can we see and use that predict when our song goes high or low in pitch?  [1.1.2]

*Pre-staff notation skills: 4/4, 3/4 and measure bars, end bars, and repeat signs.                                           *High/Low and Same/Different           *Melodic Contour Maps         *Octave: Length and Order of notes on a resonator bell scale.              *Adding new songs from different regions/styles/history

*Demonstrate ability to match pitch in the range of D - B.                           *Be able to distinguish if two pitches are the same or different.      *Accurately echo melodic phrases.   *Perform call and response songs.

See Skill Level Rubric

Contour Maps                                   High/Low Line "Simple Staff"            Octagon Octapus

March

How do these visual clues (see above) translate into simple staff notation?  [1.1.1; 1.1.2] What are our instrument Families? [1.1.1;1.1.2]

Adding to February:                            *Note heads: above the line, below the line, on the line. <varies in presentational manipulatives>            *ABC Rap and worksheet

*Students will reconstruct the aural pitches they hear on to a simple one-line staff.                                      *Students will be able to sing a two to eight measure phrase composed on a simple line staff.                         *Students will indentify 26 instruments and their proper families.

See Skill Level Rubric                      Melodic Pattern Transparencies <Same/different, High/Low Simple Staff, etc.>                                         ABC Rap worksheet

White Boards/Dry Erase and Worksheets

April

What is (Music Vocabulary) Piano, Forte, Crescendo, Descrescendo Accent Marks?  [1.1.1; 1.1.2; 3.1]    Begin Original Compositions/Music Poems (see below) [1.3; 2.3; 3.3]                        

*Application of dynamic markings to songs learned and to new songs.   Composition Process:       *Brainstorm on a Theme    *Selection of Key Lyric Words    *Selection of Rhyming Lyrics   *Analysis of Syllables for potential Rhythm pattern notations 

*Understand and use loud and soft dynamics within a well-known song. *Able to mark the correct accented beat(s) to a given an 4-beat aural pattern.                                             *Communicate the brainstorm ideas in small and large group settings.                                                                                *Identify potential ryhming words.      *Articulate correct number of syllables per action word.

See Skill Level Rubric

 

May

Complete, Compare/Contrast Original Compositions with other student's works and professional musical works. What criteria or rubric can we use to judge a piece of music (simple/complex)? [1.3; 2.3; 3.3]

Con't from above:                    *Addition of High/Low Melodic Phrases                                             *Analysis of Timbre Words and Representational Percussion Instruments                                        *Rehearsal of Group Music Poems and Compositions

*Indentify action words /timbre words to orchestrate.                                            *Communicate simple 2- choice criteria for instrumental orchestration of action words.        

See Skill Level Rubric

 

June

*Review and Practice of Concepts, History, Culture Games, etc and  Demonstration and Public Performance of Music Learning Thus Far…. SPRING CONCERT. [EALRS 1-4]

*Critique and Evaluation of Music Performance of Compositions