Artifact Explanation -
This is a lesson plan from my first lesson with 6th grade students on the piece "Zombies Knocking at Your Door" by John Prescott. When looking at this lesson plan, you can see that I did not work on the piece for very long in comparison to the whole lesson, but worked on concepts in a variety of ways to engage students of many different levels of learning. In this lesson, I related the key of G minor to a key they already know how to play; Bb Major and we not only discussed how the keys were related, but looked at exercises comparing the two as well.
I also included work on what is called a "Concentration Exercise." It was a way of playing a scale in a staccato articulation while adding notes (This can be heard in my video on artifact #2). For example, since my piece was in the key of Concert G minor, I used a "G minor concentration exercise" to learn the scale and work on staccatos at the same time. This was beneficial for the students who were working on developing a concept of staccato articulation and for those learning their scales. We applied this to other scales than the G minor scale, but that is the one most relevant for teaching them the aforementioned piece.
In this lesson, it is apparent that I am laying the ground work for using multiple ways to engage in the content of this unit to promote the learning of the material to students of all levels of development so that they could meet the standards.
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This is a lesson plan from my first lesson with 6th grade students on the piece "Zombies Knocking at Your Door" by John Prescott. When looking at this lesson plan, you can see that I did not work on the piece for very long in comparison to the whole lesson, but worked on concepts in a variety of ways to engage students of many different levels of learning. In this lesson, I related the key of G minor to a key they already know how to play; Bb Major and we not only discussed how the keys were related, but looked at exercises comparing the two as well.
I also included work on what is called a "Concentration Exercise." It was a way of playing a scale in a staccato articulation while adding notes (This can be heard in my video on artifact #2). For example, since my piece was in the key of Concert G minor, I used a "G minor concentration exercise" to learn the scale and work on staccatos at the same time. This was beneficial for the students who were working on developing a concept of staccato articulation and for those learning their scales. We applied this to other scales than the G minor scale, but that is the one most relevant for teaching them the aforementioned piece.
In this lesson, it is apparent that I am laying the ground work for using multiple ways to engage in the content of this unit to promote the learning of the material to students of all levels of development so that they could meet the standards.
(Click button below title for lesson plan)