Baltimore City Public School System

Baltimore City Public School System Division of Curriculum and Instruction Office of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction Quarter Four Curriculum Overview

Grades 2-3 Content to be Taught/ Resources Student Products Assessments Timeframe April 13- June 16: weekly  Available texts and multimedia materials MSDE OUTCOME I  Recordings Students will demonstrate the  Classroom instruments ability to perceive, perform and respond to music:  Piano/keyboard  Demonstrate aural perception  Tape/CD player  Informal observation and  Student worksheets of basic pentatonic triads and  TV/VCR; computer recording intervals  Live performances (in school  Sight read and write rhythms in  Teacher evaluation of student or elsewhere)  Student worksheets duple and triple meter worksheets  Identify ABA form in three  Teacher evaluation of student section configuration worksheets  Demonstrate movement  Dance performance  Student self/peer evaluation of patterns for a American folk folks dance performance dances and singing games from  Teacher/student and/or peer diverse traditions  Recorder performance evaluation of playing  Demonstrate good posture, breath control, phrasing and tone production while playing  Musical instrument recorder  Third grade assessments- identification worksheets  Discriminate between sounds questions on instruments of woodwind, string, brass and BCPSS elementary curriculum percussion instruments draft

 Available texts and multimedia materials  Recordings C. Thomas Bowman, Director Jill Warzer, Fine Arts Curriculum Specialist Websites: K-12 Music Resources ( Type this into search box) 1 Office- 410-396-8585 Office- 410-396-8593 menc.org ( Music Educator’s National Conference) Fax- 410-396-8063 [email protected] Music Education Madness ( type into search box) www.peabody.jhu.edu/archives/storm website for The Storm is Passing Over- African American Musicians in Maryland, Reconstruction through Civil Rights Baltimore City Public School System Division of Curriculum and Instruction Office of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction Quarter Four Curriculum Overview

Grades 2-3 Content to be Taught/ Resources Student Products Assessments Timeframe MSDE OUTCOME II  Classroom instruments The student will demonstrate an  Piano/keyboard understanding of  Tape/CD player music as an essential aspect of history and  TV/VCR; computer human experience.  Live performances (in school or elsewhere  Increased song and listening repertoire  Perform songs of a variety of themes and cultures aligned with  Group assessment listing songs other curriculum: learned organized by country or  Venn diagram comparing topic characteristics of different Grade 2: Diversity, ethnicity, kinds of music from diverse holidays, culture ************************* cultures MSDE Reading/Language Arts Grade 3: Government of Two Assessment Limit  Descriptions of what kinds of Cities: Baltimore & Mexico City;  Assessment using rubrics that Indicator Statement: music you might hear in Rules, laws, citizenship assess degree of detail and use Use elements of poetry to facilitate Baltimore and in Mexico City of music vocabulary in the understanding Objective(s): and where you might hear it descriptions  Use structural features to MSDE OUTCOME III identify poetry as a literary The student will demonstrate the form ability to creatively organize Assessment Limits: musical ideas and sounds.  Structure, including  Student compositions line(s) and stanzas  Rubric-based peer assessment of  Create and arrange short pieces Form, including lines degree of correlation between of music to accompany poems and stanzas the poem or dramatization and and dramatizations Shape the music Refrain, chorus C. Thomas Bowman, Director Jill Warzer, Fine Arts Curriculum Specialist Websites: K-12 Music Resources ( Type this into search box) 2 Office- 410-396-8585 Office- 410-396-8593 menc.org ( Music Educator’s National Conference) Fax- 410-396-8063 [email protected] Music Education Madness ( type into search box) www.peabody.jhu.edu/archives/storm website for The Storm is Passing Over- African American Musicians in Maryland, Reconstruction through Civil Rights Baltimore City Public School System Division of Curriculum and Instruction Office of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction Quarter Four Curriculum Overview

Grades 2-3 Content to be Taught/ Resources Student Products Assessments Timeframe

MSDE OUTCOME IV  Identify and explain the The student will demonstrate the meaning of words, lines, ability to make aesthetic and stanzas  Students’ music journal entries judgements. Assessment Limits:  Express opinions about Specific meaning of performances using appropriate words, lines and/or  Descriptions of music musical vocabulary stanzas performance  Assessment of review of a  Use music vocabulary to performance based on rubrics construct support individual  Identify and explain sound for amount of detail and use of interests in different styles of elements of poetry music vocabulary music Assessment Limits: Rhythm Connections with Other Rhyme, rhyme Curriculum: scheme Language Arts: Alliteration and other Grade 2: That’s Incredible; Tell repetition  Increased song repertoire Me A Story  Writing in music journals

Social Studies: Diversity of  Venn diagram to compare cultures; Baltimore City and characteristics of various Mexico City musical styles or instrument families Science: Grade 2: Forms of energy- motion,  Simple homemade instruments sound, heat and descriptions of how they Grade 3: All About Matter, produce sound Energy, Force, Motion and

C. Thomas Bowman, Director Jill Warzer, Fine Arts Curriculum Specialist Websites: K-12 Music Resources ( Type this into search box) 3 Office- 410-396-8585 Office- 410-396-8593 menc.org ( Music Educator’s National Conference) Fax- 410-396-8063 [email protected] Music Education Madness ( type into search box) www.peabody.jhu.edu/archives/storm website for The Storm is Passing Over- African American Musicians in Maryland, Reconstruction through Civil Rights Baltimore City Public School System Division of Curriculum and Instruction Office of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction Quarter Four Curriculum Overview

Grades 2-3 Content to be Taught/ Resources Student Products Assessments Timeframe Machines Mathematics:  Worksheets demonstrating Grade 2: Patterns; time; understanding of rondo form temperature, weights, shapes,  Available texts and using picture symbols- directions, money values, calendar, multimedia materials ABACADAE etc. addition, subtraction; symmetry  Recordings  Classroom instruments Grade 3: Probability, data  Survey and graph of music  Piano/keyboard collection style preferences of class or  Tape/CD player family members  TV/VCR; computer Health: Be Wise-Be safe- consumer  Live performances (in school  Student-created songs about health and safety; injury prevention or elsewhere what they do to be safe.

 Related songs Physical Education: Softball and soccer skills  Teacher assessment of student worksheets Visual Art: Signs of spring; In the Water

Grades 2-3 Content to be Taught/ Resources Student Products Assessments Timeframe  Available texts and multimedia materials  Recordings  Classroom instruments  Piano/keyboard  Tape/CD player  TV/VCR; computer  Live performances (in school or elsewhere

Grades 2-3 Content to be Taught/ Resources Student Products Assessments Timeframe

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C. Thomas Bowman, Director Jill Warzer, Fine Arts Curriculum Specialist Websites: K-12 Music Resources ( Type this into search box) 6 Office- 410-396-8585 Office- 410-396-8593 menc.org ( Music Educator’s National Conference) Fax- 410-396-8063 [email protected] Music Education Madness ( type into search box) www.peabody.jhu.edu/archives/storm website for The Storm is Passing Over- African American Musicians in Maryland, Reconstruction through Civil Rights