K-12 Music Curriculum May 2016

Why do we teach music? Not because we expect you to major in music. Not because we expect you to play and sing all your life. Not so you can relax. But...so you will be human. So you will recognize beauty. So you will be sensitive. So you will have something to cling to. So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good; in short, more life. Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live? That is why we teach. ~ Unknown

East Grand Rapids Public Schools K-12 Music Curriculum Committee

William Bier Katherine Larson James Borst Annie Schmieder Jeanne Glowicki Mark Wells Mary Hillyard Michael Woodward

2015-2016 Board of Education

Robert D. Wolford, President Elizabeth Welch, Vice President Beth A. Milanowski, Secretary Natalie Bernecker, Trustee Michelle Rabideau, Trustee Mark Hessler, Trustee Brian J. Coles, Trustee

Sara Magaña Shubel, Ph.D., Superintendent Jeanne M. Glowicki, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Kevin D. Philipps, Assistant Superintendent of Business

Table of Contents

Music Curriculum Committee Members ...... Inside front cover Board of Education ...... Inside front cover Vision & Mission Statements ...... 1 Introduction ...... 2 Elementary Level – Grades K-5 Music Curriculum ...... 4-24 Composers ...... 25 Middle School & High School Level – Grades 6-12 Music Curriculum ...... 26-31 K-12 Music Professional Learning Plan ...... 32

Vision

Our vision is to provide an exemplary music education for all music students so they will demonstrate a personal artistic appreciation, technical expertise, and an ability to use these skills and understanding to impact the global community.

Mission

Educating and inspiring each student to navigate successfully in a global community ~ EGRPS Mission Statement

In East Grand Rapids Public Schools students will have the opportunity to...  Pursue a personal music journey through an understanding of emotional and personal expressivity  Participate in musical experiences through a progressive and aligned curriculum  Develop a strong foundation of musical skills and a deep appreciation of a vast array of musical styles and excellent performances.  Maximize music aptitude and achievement.  Discover how music contributes to the quality of the human experience

Introduction

The 2014 Music Standards are all about Music Literacy. The standards emphasize conceptual understanding in areas that reflect the actual processes in which musicians engage. The standards cultivate a student’s ability to carry out the three artistic processes of:  Performing  Responding  Connecting

These are the processes that musicians have followed for generations, even as they connect through music to their selves and their societies. And isn’t competence in Performing, Responding, and Connecting what we really want for our students? Students need to perform – as singers, as instrumentalists, and in their lives and careers. Students need to respond to music, as well as their culture, their community, and their colleagues.

East Grand Rapids Public Schools Music Curriculum

ELEMENTARY LEVEL Grades K-5

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy, but most importantly music for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning. ~ Plato

4 Kindergarten Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 1. Sing, alone and with others, a  Demonstrate beat awareness  Listening exercises  Performance varied repertoire of music  Demonstrate resting tone  Echo-singing  Verbal

 Demonstrate beginning pitch matching  Pitch-matching  Observation

 Demonstrate an awareness of upward and downward melodic  Solo/Group  Project

contour  Hand signals

 Experience rhythm and tonal patterns  Movement

 Experience the concept of the tonal center  Chanting

 Be introduced to proper vocal production  Singing games

 Experience vocal timbre (tone colors)  Puppet play

 Visual props  Speaking vs. singing voice 2. Perform on instruments, alone and  Demonstrate beat awareness  Song accompaniment  Performance with others, a varied repertoire of  Demonstrate performance of locomotor/non-locomotor  Sound stories  Verbal music movement to a pulse  Creative movement  Observation  Demonstrate mirror movement  Body percussion  Project  Experience a variety of unpitched percussion and keyboard  Play unpitched instruments percussion/mallet instruments  Simple chord bordun

5 Kindergarten (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 3. Improvise melodies, variations,  Use creative movement to accompany stories, rhymes, poetry,  Rhythm patterns  Performance and accompaniments and song using creative movement  Vocal response  Verbal  Create rhythmic patterns using unpitched instruments and  Chanting  Observation voice  Creative movement  Project

4. Compose and arrange music  Use unpitched and pitched percussion instruments to add tone  Choose an instrument  Performance within specified guidelines colors to song, chants, movement, and sound stories  Improvise movement to a  Verbal song  Observation  Partner activities  Project  Body percussion  Singing games 5. Read and notate music  Skill introduced beginning at grade 2. 6. Listen to, analyze, and describe  Experience rest within rhythm patterns  Songs with sound/silence  Performance music  Experience major and minor songs  Movement: space, weight,  Verbal  Experience duple and triple metered chants time and flow activities  Observation  Experience the difference between the beat and rhythm of the  Partner activities  Project words  Listening exercises  Demonstrate sensitivity to differences in musical expression  Songs/chants  Experience AB form through verse/chorus songs  Speaking vs singing voice  Listen to and identify various unpitched percussion  Use of a visual chart instruments  Perform and identify duple/triple meter

6 Kindergarten (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 7. Evaluate music and music  Evaluate various recorded performances  Performances in class and  Performance performances  Recognizes differences from the beginning to the end of the community  Verbal performance.  Individual/group  Observation discussions  Project 8. Understand relationships between  Develop a repertoire of songs  Singing games  Performance music, the other arts, and  Experience nursery rhymes  Seasonal/folk songs  Verbal disciplines outside the arts  Perform sound stories and sequences  Songs from diverse  Observation  Develop a movement vocabulary cultures  Project  Vocal inflections/pronunciations  Folk dances from various cultures 9. Understand music in relation to  Develop a repertoire of folk songs, nursery rhymes, and songs  Historical features of  Performance history and culture from a variety of cultures songs  Verbal

 Nursery rhymes  Observation  Composer study (See Page 25)  Project

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing. ~ Zimbabwe Proverb

7 First Grade Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 1. Sing, alone and with others, a  Demonstrate beat awareness  Listening exercises  Performance varied repertoire of music  Demonstrate resting tone  Echo-singing  Verbal

 Demonstrate beginning pitch matching  Pitch-matching  Observation

 Demonstrate an awareness of upward and downward melodic  Solo/Group  Project

contour  Hand signals

 Demonstrate rhythm and tonal patterns  Movement

 Demonstrate the concept of the tonal center  Chanting

 Experience proper vocal production  Singing games

 Experience vocal timbre (tone colors)  Puppet play

 Visual props  Speaking/singing  Visual melodic line 2. Perform on instruments, alone and  Demonstrate performance of movement to a pulse  Song accompaniment  Performance with others, a varied repertoire of  Demonstrate mirror movement  Sound stories  Verbal music  Experience a variety of unpitched percussion and keyboard  Creative movement  Observation instruments  Body percussion  Project  Experience performing micro and macro beats of duple and  Play unpitched triple meters percussion/mallet  Experience upward and downward melodic contour instruments  Perform a rhyme and an accompanying ostinato in a chant  Simple chord bordun  Experience tonal patterns going up/down

8 First Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 3. Improvise melodies, variations,  Use creative movement to accompany stories, rhymes, poetry,  Rhythm patterns  Performance and accompaniments and song using creative movement  Sound stories  Verbal  Create rhythmic patterns using unpitched instruments and  Vocal response  Observation voice  Creative movement to  Project  Improvise a simple melody/accompaniment for chants, songs, music and stories  Chanting 4. Compose and arrange music  Use unpitched and pitched percussion instruments to add tone  Choose an instrument  Performance within specified guidelines colors to song, chants, movement, and sound stories  Improvise movement to a  Verbal  Create sound accompaniments for songs, chants, movement, song  Observation and stories  Partner activities  Project  Body percussion  Singing games 5. Read and notate music  Skill introduced at grade 2. 6. Listen to, analyze, and describe  Experience sound/silence patterns  Songs with sound/silence  Performance music  Experience major and minor songs  Movement: space, weight,  Verbal  Demonstrate and beginning to identify duple and triple time and flow activities  Observation metered music  Identification of  Project instruments  Experience the difference between the beat and rhythm of the words  Partner activities  Demonstrate sensitivity to differences in musical expression  Listening exercises  Experience different song forms through verse/chorus songs  Speaking/singing  Listen to and identify various unpitched and pitched  Visual chart instruments  Perform and identify  Recognize the tonal center in a song duple/triple meter

9 First Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 7. Evaluate music and music  Evaluate various recorded performances  Performances in class and  Performance performances  Recognizes differences from the beginning to the end of the in community  Verbal performance.  Individual/group  Observation discussions  Project 8. Understand relationships between  Develop a repertoire of songs  Singing games  Performance music, the other arts, and  Experience nursery rhymes  Folk dances from various  Verbal disciplines outside the arts  Perform sound stories and sequences cultures  Observation  Develop a movement vocabulary  Songs from diverse  Project cultures  Experience folk dances and stories  Sound stories and sequences 9. Understand music in relation to  Develop a repertoire of songs/literature from diverse cultures  Songs/singing games  Performance history and culture  Songs from diverse  Verbal cultures  Observation  Nursery rhymes  Project  Patriotic/seasonal/folk songs  Composer study (See Page 25)  Historical features of songs

The voice is the first and most important instrument. Vocal activities in a musical environment enrich and support language development. Singing also provides an opportunity for self-expression and helps to develop the sense of self. ~ Anonymous

10 Second Grade Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 1. Sing, alone and with others, a  Demonstrate beat awareness  Listening exercises  Performance varied repertoire of music  Demonstrate resting tone  Echo-singing  Verbal  Demonstrate rhythm patterns in duple and triple meters  Solo/Group  Observation  Perform tonal center in major/minor tonality  Hand signals  Project  Perform tonic and dominant patterns  Movement  Beginning to develop proper vocal tone production  Chanting  Experience knowledge of tempo and dynamic changes  Singing games  Experience rest within rhythm patterns  Puppet play  Perform two-part canons and rounds  Visual props  Speaking/singing  Visual melodic line  Singing in rounds 2. Perform on instruments, alone and  Demonstrate performance of beat to a song  Song accompaniment  Performance with others, a varied repertoire of  Demonstrate mirror movement  Sound stories  Verbal music  Demonstrate appropriate playing technique on pitched and  Vocal response  Observation non-pitched instruments  Creative movement  Project  Perform micro and macro beats of duple and triple meters  Body percussion  Perform music with an accompanying ostinato  Play unpitched  Experience tonal patterns percussion/mallet  Demonstrate knowledge of tempo and dynamic changes instruments  Use speech/body percussion patterns as an ostinato  Simple chord bordun  Experience a multi-part accompaniment 3. Improvise melodies, variations,  Continue to create dramatization, sound accompaniments, and  Rhythm patterns and  Performance and accompaniments movement improvisations for stories, rhymes and poetry. ostinato (Plural?)  Verbal

 Improvise rhythmic patterns (duple/triple) using unpitched  Sound stories  Observation instruments and voice.  Vocal response  Project  Improvise tonal patterns (tonic) using voice  Creative movement to music  Improvise a simple melody/accompaniment for chants, songs  Chanting (passing the and stories. melody games)

11 Second Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 4. Compose and arrange music  Use unpitched and pitched percussion instruments to add tone  Choose an instrument  Performance within specified guidelines colors to song, chants, movement, and sound stories  Visual chart  Verbal  Create sound accompaniments for songs, chants, movement,  Pitched/unpitched  Observation and stories percussion instruments  Project

 Create two-measure patterns in duple meter using these note values: quarter, eighth, half 5. Read and notate music  Introduce musical notation of known repertoire  Use of music text  Performance  Score construction using a  Verbal variety of materials  Observation  Visual Chart  Project  Rhythmic patterns 6. Listen to, analyze, and describe  Demonstrate rest within rhythm patterns  Movement: space, weight,  Performance music  Beginning to differentiate between major/minor tonalities time and flow activities  Verbal  Demonstrate and continue to identify duple and triple metered  Partner activities  Observation music  Listening exercises  Project  Identify musical content within a song  Song form activities  Demonstrate sensitivity to differences in musical expression  Use of music text  Experience different song forms through verse/chorus songs  Visual Chart  Listen to and identify various instruments and instrument families  Score construction using a  Listen to and identify vocal and instrumental styles of music variety of materials (rearranging musical  Beginning to develop concept of musical form, ie phrasing, selections) sections, AB, ABA  Perform and identify duple/triple meter

12 Second Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 7. Evaluate music and music  Evaluate various recorded performances  Performances in class and  Performance performances  Recognizes differences from the beginning to the end of the in community  Verbal performance.  Individual/group discussions  Observation

 Use of music textbook  Project 8. Understand relationships between  Develop a repertoire of songs  Use of musical text  Performance music, the other arts, and  Perform sound stories and sequences  Songs/singing games  Verbal disciplines outside the arts  Develop a movement vocabulary  Seasonal/folk/  Observation  Experience folk dances and stories of a variety of cultures patriotic songs  Project  Folk dances from various cultures 9. Understand music in relation to  Develop a repertoire of folk songs, nursery rhymes, and songs  Songs/singing games  Performance history and culture from a variety of cultures  Patriotic/seasonal songs  Verbal

 Composer study (See Page 25)  Observation  Use of musical text  Project  Songs from diverse cultures  Song types: call-response, singing games, patriotic, seasonal, rounds, and folk songs  Historical features of songs

13 Third Grade

Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 1. Sing, alone and with others, a  Demonstrate beat awareness  Listening exercises  Performance varied repertoire of music  Demonstrate resting tone  Echo-singing  Verbal

 Demonstrate rhythm patterns in duple and triple meters  Solo/Group  Observation

 Perform tonal center in major/minor tonality  Hand signals  Project

 Perform tonic and dominant patterns  Movement

 Beginning to develop proper vocal tone production  Chanting

 Experience knowledge of tempo and dynamic changes  Singing games

 Perform two-part canons and rounds  Visual props (slinky, slide

whistle)

 Sheet music  Singing in rounds 2. Perform on instruments, alone and  Perform a rhythmic ostinato using voice, body percussion and  Song accompaniment  Performance with others, a varied repertoire of instruments  Sound stories  Verbal music  Perform and lead mirror movement  Creative movement  Observation  Demonstrate appropriate playing technique on pitched and  Body percussion  Project non-pitched instruments  Play unpitched  Perform micro and macro beats of duple and triple meters percussion/mallet  Experience tonal patterns instruments  Demonstrate a multi-part accompaniment  Simple chord bordun  Sing and perform chord roots to known songs

14 Third Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 3. Improvise melodies, variations,  Continue to create dramatization, sound accompaniments, and  Singing (passing the  Performance and accompaniments movement improvisations for stories, rhymes and poetry. melody/rhythm game)  Verbal  Improvise rhythmic patterns (duple/triple) using unpitched  Sound stories  Observation instruments and voice.  Small percussion and  Project  Improvise tonal patterns (tonic and dominant) using voice barred instruments  Improvise a simple melody/accompaniment for chants, songs  Vocal response and stories.  Creative movement to  Create a melodic question/answer between teacher /student, music student/student 4. Compose and arrange music  Introduce song composition  Choose an instrument  Performance within specified guidelines  Experience a sound composition  Use of sheet music  Verbal  Pitched/unpitched  Observation percussion instruments  Project 5. Read and notate music  Identify patterns in musical notation of known repertoire  Use of sheet music  Performance  Perform basic rhythmic patterns in duple and triple meters  Score reading using a  Verbal  Experience the five-line staff with the treble clef variety of materials  Observation  Rhythmic dictation  Project 6. Listen to, analyze, and describe  Identify major/minor tonalities  Use of music text  Performance music  Identify duple and triple metered music  Listening exercises  Verbal  Identify musical content within a song (instruments, patterns,  Various musical aspects of  Observation dynamic changes, etc.) songs (form, meter,  Project  Demonstrate sensitivity to differences in musical expression tonality…)  Identify and discriminate phrases and sections in songs  Instruments  Listen to and identify various instruments and instrument  Movement families  Partner activities  Experience vocal and instrumental styles of music

15 Third Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 7. Evaluate music and music  Evaluate various recorded performances  Performances in class and  Performance performances  Recognizes differences from the beginning to the end of the in community  Verbal performance.  Cultural arts activities  Observation

 Individual/group  Project discussions 8. Understand relationships between  Develop a repertoire of songs  Use of music text  Performance music, the other arts, and  Develop a movement vocabulary  Singing games  Verbal disciplines outside the arts  Experience folk dances and stories of a variety of cultures  Seasonal songs  Observation  Songs/dances from diverse  Project cultures 9. Understand music in relation to  Develop a repertoire of folk songs, nursery rhymes, and songs  Use of music text  Performance history and culture from a variety of cultures  Songs/dances from diverse  Verbal

cultures  Observation  Composer study (See Page 25)  Project  Song types: spirituals, singing games, patriotic, seasonal, canons/rounds, ballads…  Songs from diverse cultures

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace. ~ Plato

16 Fourth Grade Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 1. Sing, alone and with others, a  Demonstrate beat awareness, resting tone, and rhythm patterns  Listening exercises  Performance varied repertoire of music  Perform tonal center in major/minor tonality  Echo-singing  Verbal

 Perform tonic and dominant patterns  Solo/Group  Observation

 Develop healthy vocal tone production  Hand signals  Project

 Perform tempo and dynamic changes  Movement  Student

 Perform two-part canons/rounds  Chanting Journal  Written  Experience singing songs with ostinati  Singing games  Performance  Perform chord roots to songs  Visual props  Peer

 Sheet music

2. Perform on instruments, alone and  Perform a rhythmic ostinato using voice, body percussion and  Song accompaniment  Performance with others, a varied repertoire of instruments  Creative movement  Verbal music  Perform and lead mirror movement  Body percussion  Observation  Demonstrate appropriate playing technique on the recorder  Play unpitched  Project  Perform micro and macro beats of duple and triple meters percussion/mallet Student  Perform tonal patterns instruments Journal  Simple chord bordun  Written  Demonstrate a multi-part accompaniment  Performance  Sing and perform chord roots to known songs  Recorders  Peer  Perform rhythmic rounds/canons  Perform rhythm patterns  Perform B, A, and G on soprano recorders

17 Fourth Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 3. Improvise melodies, variations,  Continue to create dramatization, sound accompaniments, and  Creative movement  Performance and accompaniments movement improvisations for stories, rhymes and poetry.  Vocal response  Verbal  Create movement to accompany musical selections  Passing the melody games  Observation  Improvise rhythmic patterns (duple/triple) using unpitched  Use of a variety of  Project instruments and voice. instruments Student  Improvise tonal patterns (tonic and dominant) using voice Journal  Improvise a simple melody/accompaniment for chants, songs  Written and stories.  Performance  Peer  Create a melodic question/answer between teacher /student, student/student 4. Compose and arrange music  Notate and perform a song composition  Create a visual score using  Performance within specified guidelines  Create and perform a variation of a song a variety of materials  Verbal  Sound composition  Create and perform a sound composition  Observation  Story orchestrations  Project  Partner activities Student  Standard musical notation Journal  Recorder composition  Written projects  Performance  Peer 5. Read and notate music  Identify patterns in musical notation of known repertoire  Use of music text  Performance  Perform basic rhythmic patterns in duple and triple meters  Rhythmic dictation  Verbal  Label the pitches of the treble clef  Theory worksheets  Observation  Dictate basic rhythm patterns  Group activities using  Project  Explore dynamic markings terms, notes, and rhythms Student

 Sheet music Journal  Written  Performance  Peer

18 Fourth Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 6. Listen to, analyze, and describe  Identify major/minor tonalities  Listening exercises  Performance music  Identify duple and triple metered music  Use of music text  Verbal  Identify musical content within a song (instruments, patterns,  Instrument identification  Observation dynamic changes, etc.) games  Project  Demonstrate sensitivity to differences in musical expression  Form maps of master Student  Identify and discriminate phrases and sections in songs works Journal  Various musical aspects of  Written  Listen to and identify various instruments and instrument  Performance families songs (form, meter, tonality…)  Peer  Experience vocal and instrumental styles of music  Sheet music 7. Evaluate music and music  Evaluate various recorded performances  Performances in class and  Performance performances community  Recognizes differences from the beginning to the end of the  Verbal  Use of music text performance.  Observation  Individual/group discussions  Project Student Journal  Written  Performance  Peer 8. Understand relationships between  Develop a repertoire of songs  Use of music text  Performance music, the other arts, and  Develop a movement vocabulary  Diverse songs/folk dances  Verbal disciplines outside the arts  Experience folk dances and stories of a variety of cultures  Observation  Discuss lyrics within diverse genres of musical selections  Project Student Journal  Written  Performance  Peer

19 Fourth Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 9. Understand music in relation to  Develop a repertoire of folk songs, nursery rhymes, and songs  Use of music text  Performance history and culture from a variety of cultures  Songs from diverse  Verbal cultures  Observation  Composer study (See Page 25)  Project  Song types: spirituals, Student singing games, Journal cumulative, patriotic,  Written seasonal, canons/rounds,  Performance and ballads  Peer

Our woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sing the best. ~ Thoreau

20 Fifth Grade Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 1. Sing, alone and with others, a  Demonstrate beat awareness, resting tone, and rhythm patterns  Listening exercises  Performance varied repertoire of music  Perform tonal center in major/minor tonality  Echo-singing  Verbal

 Perform tonic and dominant patterns  Two part singing  Observation

 Develop healthy vocal tone production  Solo/Group  Project

 Perform tempo and dynamic changes  Hand signals Student Journal  Perform two-part canons/rounds  Movement  Written  Perform songs with ostinato, chord roots, and  Chanting  Performance

countermelodies,  Singing games  Peer

 Perform chord roots to songs  Visual props

 Demonstrate the ability to perform a two-part score  Sheet music 2. Perform on instruments, alone and  Perform a rhythmic ostinato using voice, body percussion and  Song accompaniment  Performance with others, a varied repertoire of instruments  Creative movement  Verbal music  Perform and lead mirror movement  Body percussion  Observation  Demonstrate appropriate playing technique on instruments  Play unpitched  Project  Perform micro and macro beats of duple and triple meters percussion/mallet Student  Perform tonal patterns instruments Journal  Simple chord bordun  Written  Demonstrate a multi-part accompaniment  Performance  Sing and perform chord roots to known songs  Peer  Perform rhythmic rounds/canons  Perform rhythm patterns

21 Fifth Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 3. Improvise melodies, variations,  Continue to create dramatization, sound accompaniments, and  Vocal response  Performance and accompaniments movement improvisations for stories, rhymes and poetry.  Play small percussion and  Verbal  Create movement to accompany musical selections barred instruments  Observation

 Improvise rhythmic patterns (duple/triple) using unpitched  Project instruments and voice. Student  Improvise tonal patterns (tonic and dominant) using voice Journal  Improvise a simple melody/accompaniment for chants, songs  Written and stories.  Performance  Peer  Create a melodic question/answer between teacher /student, student/student  Perform simple vocal improvisations  Experience creative movement to demonstrate theme and variations 4. Compose and arrange music  Notate and perform a song composition  Create a visual score using  Performance within specified guidelines  Create and perform a variation of a song notation  Verbal  Create and perform a sound composition  Creative movement  Observation utilizing form  Project  Composition projects Student using instruments Journal  Partner activities  Written  Performance  Peer 5. Read and notate music  Identify patterns in musical notation of known repertoire  Use of music text  Performance  Perform basic rhythmic patterns in duple and triple meters  Rhythmic and tonal  Verbal  Label the pitches of the treble clef dictation  Observation  Introduce the grand staff  Theory worksheets  Project  Dictate basic rhythm patterns  Group activities using Student  Identify and perform dynamic and symbolic marking terms, notes, and rhythms Journal  Written  Read a two-part rhythmic or melodic score  Sing and play instruments  Performance  Review note value names  Sheet music  Peer

22 Fifth Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 6. Listen to, analyze, and describe  Identify major/minor tonalities  Use of music text  Performance music  Identify duple and triple metered music  Listening exercises  Verbal  Identify musical content within a song (instruments, patterns,  Instrument identification  Observation dynamic changes, etc.) games  Project  Demonstrate sensitivity to differences in musical expression  Form maps of Student  Identify and discriminate phrases and sections in songs masterworks Journal  Major/minor tonality  Written  Listen to and identify various instruments and instrument  Performance families  Movement activities  Peer  Experience vocal and instrumental styles of music  Sheet music 7. Evaluate music and music  Evaluate various recorded performances  Perform in class and in  Performance performances  Recognizes differences from the beginning to the end of the community  Verbal performance.  Use of music text  Observation

 Individual/group  Project discussions Student Journal  Written  Performance  Peer 8. Understand relationships between  Develop a repertoire of songs  Use of music text  Performance music, the other arts, and  Develop a movement vocabulary  Diverse songs/folk dances  Verbal disciplines outside the arts  Experience folk dances and stories of a variety of cultures  Creative movement  Observation  Discuss lyrics within diverse genres of musical selections  Project Student Journal  Written  Performance  Peer

23 Fifth Grade (continued) Suggested Content Standard Benchmarks Assessments Activities/Techniques 9. Understand music in relation to  Develop a repertoire of folk songs, nursery rhymes, and songs  Songs from diverse  Performance history and culture from a variety of cultures cultures  Verbal

 Use of music text  Observation  Song types: folk,  Project spirituals, singing games, Student jazz, popular, patriotic, Journal seasonal, canons/rounds,  Written and ballads  Performance  Composer study (See Page 25)  Peer

Composers

 Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741  Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1719-1787  Franz Joseph Haydn 1737-1806  Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893  John Philip Sousa 1854-1932  Scott Joplin 1868-1917  George Gershwin 1898-1937  Duke Ellington 1899-1974  Aaron Copland 1900-1990  Woodie Guthrie 1912–1931  John Williams 1932-  Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948-  Beatles Formed: 1957, Liverpool, England; Disbanded 1970

*Music teachers at the elementary level will meet at the beginning of each year to coordinate music and composer activities.

East Grand Rapids Public Schools Music Curriculum

MIDDLE SCHOOL & HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL Grades 6-12

~ Pat Conroy

26 Secondary Music Key Grade Level Suggested Corresponding Ensemble  6th Grade Like-Instrument Classes (Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass, Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trombone, French Horn, Trumpets, Baritone, Percussion)  6th Grade Girls Choir 6 - 7  6th Grade Boys Choir  7th Grade Girls Choir  7th Grade Boys Choir  7th Grade Band  7th Grade Orchestra  7th Grade Band  7th Grade Orchestra  8th Grade Band  8th Grade Orchestra 7 - 8  7th Grade Boys Choir  7th Grade Girls Choir  8th Grade Boys Choir  8th Grade Girls Choir  8th Grade Band  8th Grade Orchestra  8th Grade Boys’ Choir  8th Grade Girls’ Choir 8 - 10  HS Concert Band  Freshman Orchestra  9th Grade Men’s Chorus  9th Grade Women's Chorus  Chamber Singers  HS Symphony Band 10 - 12  Bella Voce  Madrigals

27 Performing Analyze Analyze the structure and context of varied musical works and their implications for performance. Enduring Understanding: Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance. Essential Question: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance? 6 - 7 7 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12  Demonstrate, using music reading  Demonstrate, using music reading  Demonstrate, using music reading  Demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how skills where appropriate, how the skills where appropriate, how skills where appropriate, how knowledge of formal aspects in setting and formal characteristics compositional devices employed compositional devices employed musical works inform prepared or of musical works contribute to and theoretical and structural and theoretical and structural improvised performances. understanding the context of the aspects of musical works impact aspects of musical works may music in prepared or improvised and inform prepared or improvised impact and inform prepared and performances. performances. improvised performances. Interpret Develop personal interpretations that consider creators’ intent. Enduring Understanding: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent. Essential Question: How do performers interpret musical works? 6 - 7 7 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12  Identify expressive qualities in a  Demonstrate understanding and  Demonstrate an understanding of  Demonstrate how understanding varied repertoire of music that can application of expressive qualities context in a varied repertoire of the style, genre, and context of a be demonstrated through prepared in a varied repertoire of music music through prepared and varied repertoire of music and improvised performances. through prepared and improvised improvised performances. influences prepared and performances. improvised performances as well as performers' technical skill to connect with the audience. Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine Evaluate and refine personal and ensemble performances, individually or in collaboration with others. Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria. Essential Question: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance? 6 - 7 7 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12  Use self-reflection and peer  Develop strategies to address  Develop strategies to address  Develop and apply appropriate feedback to refine individual and technical challenges in a varied expressive challenges in a varied rehearsal strategies to address ensemble performances of a varied repertoire of music, and evaluate repertoire of music, and evaluate individual and ensemble repertoire of music. their success using feedback from their success using feedback from challenges in a varied repertoire of ensemble peers and other sources ensemble peers and other sources music, and evaluate their success. to refine performances. to refine performances.

28 Performing (continued) Present Perform expressively, with appropriate interpretation and technical accuracy, and in a manner appropriate to the audience and context. Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. Essential Question: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response? 6 - 7 7 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12  Demonstrate attention to technical  Demonstrate attention to technical  Demonstrate attention to technical  Demonstrate mastery of the accuracy and expressive qualities accuracy and expressive qualities accuracy and expressive qualities technical demands and an in prepared and improvised in prepared and improvised in prepared and improvised understanding of expressive performances of a varied repertoire performances of a varied repertoire performances of a varied repertoire qualities of the music in prepared of music. of music representing diverse of music representing diverse and improvised performances of a  Demonstrate an awareness of the cultures, styles. cultures, styles, genres. varied repertoire representing context of the music through  Demonstrate an understanding of  Demonstrate an understanding of diverse cultures, styles, genres, and prepared and improvised the context of the music through expressive intent by connecting historical periods. performances. prepared and improvised with an audience through prepared  Demonstrate an understanding of performances. and improvised performances. intent as a means for connecting with an audience through prepared and improvised performances.

29 Responding Analyze Analyze how the structure and context of varied musical works inform the response. .Enduring Understanding: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music. Essential Question: How does understanding the structure and context of the music influence a response? 6 - 7 7 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12  Identify how knowledge of context  Describe how understanding  Understand how the analysis of  Understand how the analysis of and the use of repetition, context and the way the elements passages and understanding the structures and contexts inform the similarities, and contrasts inform of music are manipulated inform way the elements of music are response to music. the response to music. the response to music. manipulated inform the response to music. Interpret Support an interpretation of a musical work that reflects the creators’/performers’ expressive intent. Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, performers provide clues to their expressive intent. Essential Question: How do we discern the musical performers’ expressive intent? 6 - 7 7 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12  Identify interpretations of  Identify and support interpretations  Understand and appreciate  Appreciate interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of of the expressive intent and interpretations of the expressive expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the meaning of musical works, citing intent and meaning of musical musical works citing as evidence elements of music, contexts, and as evidence the treatment of the works citing as evidence the the treatment of the elements of (when appropriate) the setting of elements of music, contexts, (when treatment of the elements of music, music, contexts, (when the text. appropriate) the setting of the text. contexts, (when appropriate) the appropriate) the setting of the text, setting of the text, and personal and the varied researched sources. research. Evaluate Support personal evaluation of musical works and performances, based on analysis, interpretation, and established criteria. Enduring Understanding: Their personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria. Essential Question: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)? 6 - 7 7 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12  Identify and describe the effect of  Explain the influence of  Evaluate works and performances  Evaluate works and performances interest, experience, analysis and experiences, analysis and context based on personally- or based on personally- and context on the evaluation of music. on interest in and evaluation of collaboratively-developed criteria, collaboratively-developed criteria, music. including analysis of the structure including analysis of the structure and context. and context.

30 Connecting Connecting Connecting Personal Knowledge/Experience to Classroom Music. Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make music. Enduring Understanding: Musicians understand connections to varied contexts and daily life and connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas and knowledge to creating, performing and responding. Essential Question: How do musicians, other arts, disciplines, contexts and daily life inform and make meaningful connections to creating, performing and responding to music? 6 - 7 7 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12  Students bring experiences to the classroom which can be expressed and connections can be found to relate their experiences to the music being performed.  Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life as appropriate to the experience level of the learner.

K-12 Music Professional Learning Plan

Purpose of Meeting During the 2015-2016 School Year: Our goal was to convene the K-12 Music Department to review, update, and articulate our music curriculum which reflects EGRPS’s current classes and the 2014 National Music Standards.

Music Learning Plan Classroom Recording Capabilities (2014 Bond)  Pilot Classrooms (microphones/recording) for two classrooms @ $3,400 each ...... $6,800.00  Large Studio Speakers ...... $1,200.00  Three more classrooms at the High School to be completed (already purchased) ...... $10,200.00  Two more classrooms at the Middle School to be completed this summer ...... $6,800.00  Updated Carts/Projectors (Completed Summer 2015) TOTAL ...... $25,000.00

For Future Consideration Professional Learning  Continue to explore financial opportunities for Music Staff to attend the Michigan Music Conference Possible Classes  Middle School Choral Expansion  Jazz Band  Additional support for 6-12 String Department Purchase and Replacement Plans for Music  Develop a 3-5 year plan for equipment purchase and replacement  Develop a 3-5 year plan for maintenance of uniforms  Assess and plan for replacement of the elementary electronic pianos

Music has always been an important part of my life. I have listened to it, danced to it, dreamed to it, loved to it, laughed to it, and cried to it… What a tragedy it would be if we lived in a world where music was not taught to children. ~ H. Norman Schwarzkopf, General, U.S. Army, Retired