General Music

Lesson 1 and Matt Moody

Rationale:
General music comes in many forms and styles. Students should learn this
because it is because of world music that music is changing every day. Learning
about general music will allow them to possibly form their own style of music.
Objectives:
After participating in the activities and completing the lesson, the students
will be able to perform Taiko drumming with 80% accuracy.
Standards:

7.1.1 Sing independently and in ensembles maintaining good breath control, pitch,
diction, tone quality, and posture.

7.2.1 Play melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns by rote and by reading.

7.3.1 Sing or play call and response conversations led by teacher or students

Strategies/Activities:

Before Reading Strategy

o This strategy will be used to see what the students already know
about this activity. I will use the Ready, Set, Go, Woa method to help
the students with the reading.
Steps
Give the students a sheet for them to fill out what
they know
Play the music in the background, this will help generate
questions
Collect sheet after music is done playing
Vocabulary Strategy
o This will help students to understand how words are said, from a
different country, and will allow them to expand their own vocabulary.
I will be using the Frayer Model. They put the key word, then
information then a memory cue to help remember the word.
Steps
Have the students fill out the sheet during class they
come to class

Maybe do a quick pop quiz to see who actually knows the

words
Collect sheet at the end of class
Cite for sheet
http://learningtasks.weebly.com/vocabularystrategies.html
Comprehension Strategy
o DT-RA
For this we will use a DT-RA Prediction log
This will help students predict what will happen next in
the lesson
Steps
Give students the sheet
During lesson stop the class and ask them to predict
what will happen next
Do next part of lesson
Stop and see how many people knew what was going to
happen
Writing Strategy
o Dialogue Journal
Student read and respond to reading, then share with other
Steps
Have them go home and read and write about the
section of reading
When they come back to class have them share with
two friends and see what new things they can learn
After Reading
o Think, Pair, Share
Students will work with partner to come up with questions
then work together to figure out what they want to share
about the reading
Steps
Have students pick a partner
Have students come up with questions
Students then share questions with partner
They decide what to share
Then share with class

Citation

Vacca, R. T., Vacca, J. L., & Mraz, M. (2011). Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning
Across the Curriculum (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.