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april 1-5, 2019

3/22/2019

Weekly Reminders

FSA Testing is Tuesday- Friday depending on grade level check with your language arts teacher for your date and time!
Begin Spring Concert Music concert is on Tuesday, May 14th.
Un Poco Loco, Trip a Little Light Fantastic
All You need is Love,
When you Wish Upon a Star, Superstition, Four Measures

Target: Finalize song list for spring concert and work on perfecting first 20 measures of each song
Target: L istening and singing concurrently help with balance and blend between voice parts.
Vocabulary:Breath Support, Posture, Control, Intonation, Pitch Accuracy, Blend, Phrasing, unified vowels, tone color/placement

Weekly Reminders:

Thursday- Sight Singing Review; Dear Evan Hansen listening and writing reflection https://youtu.be/WFZmT-LRMBM
Friday- music run- thru including Sight Reading!

march 18- march 22, 2019

3/16/2019

Target: Listening and singing concurrently help with balance and blend between voice parts.
Vocabulary:Breath Support, Posture, Control, Intonation, Pitch Accuracy, Blend, Phrasing, unified vowels, tone color/placement

Weekly Reminders:
MPA is Wednesday, March 20... you need to make sure that all concert attire is hemmed and ready to go.
Ladies wear concert black dress and closed toe black dress shoes
Men wear their concert black tux pants, black dress shirts, black socks and black dress shoes
Monday- Final Rehearsal with accompanist for each choir to assist with MPA music
Tuesday- Rehearsal and Sight Singing Tips/ MPA reminders
Wednesday- MPA Day! 11:00a.m. Report to Bistro for lunch; load bus at 11:30a.m. Aurburndale HS 12:15-3:30p.m. Auburdanle High School Pick up between 3:30-4:00p.m. LCMA pick up in bus loop at 6:00p.m.Thursday-Written reflection for grade on MPA experience Dear Evan Hansen listening and writing reflection https://youtu.be/WFZmT-LRMBM
Friday- MPA completion celebration!

March 11-15, 2019

3/9/2019

Weekly Reminders:
Wednesday is Early Release Day
MPA is 1 week from Wednesday
After school Rehearsal for 1st and 7th period chorus is Thursday until 3:45p.m. If you can't get picked up on time you cannot stay for the final run-thru
Sight Singing Quiz Friday
Friday is end of 3rd 9 weeks
Weekly Music Focus:
Review Solfeddge
Sight Read as Ensemble
Warm Up and Focus exercises
MPA Music- The Road Not Taken and J'entends Le Moulin
1st and 7th period will work on Murasame and Give Us Hope
Thursday Small Ensemble Quiz on 2nd MPA Piece
Thursday- Self Assessment Form Completion due based off of performance on Wednesday
Friday-Music Symbol Worksheet

Use tall vowels to achieve correct resonance and placement.
St Learning Activities: Daily performance of new music, Warm Up- Work on Breath Control and New ways to inforce better singing posture

Knowledge and skill acquisition:
Vocabulary :Resonance, Focus & Placement, Dipthong, Diction, Tall Vowels, Consonants,

march 4-8, 2019

3/2/2019

Weekly Reminders

Required Combined (1st & 7th Period) Rehearsal on Monday, March 4 in concert dress attire from 3:00-4:00p.m. You will need a ride no later than 4:15p.m.
All MPA forms MUST be RETURNED no later than MONDAY, March 4th- Chaperones are needed! This applies to all chorus classes.

Target: Skills important to be a successful sight singer.
St Learning Activities: Daily performance of new music, Warm Up- Work on Breath Control and New ways to enforce better singing posture

Knowledge and skill acquisition: Identify common patterns in major scales. You can identify them aurally through the use of solfedge

Weekly Lesson Focus
Review Solfedge
Sight Read as Ensemble
Warm Up and Focus exercises
MPA Music- Work on Music Give Us Hope, Murasame, The Road Not Taken, Jentends Le Moulin
Review Solfeddge
Sight Read as Ensemble
Warm Up and Focus exercises
MPA Music- Work on Sight Singing, Begin Sight-singing Challenge

Worksheet- vocabulary worksheet and rhythm worksheet
Evaluation and reflection of progress in mpa music