Subject: Orchestra
Grade Level: 7
Goals and Objectives
National Music Standards (Ensemble): Performing – 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.
District Essential Learning Outcome: Students will appropriately critique selections.
Anticipatory Set
I will ask students to think about their Middle Ages unit in social studies. They will close their eyes and pretend they are in the audience at a jousting match. Students will imagine the sights and sounds they would hear, which will tie into their new piece, Joust.
Next, we will discuss the answers from the pretest that students