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Middle School Choir

This lesson is to teach/review dynamics. This lesson includes an introduction to dynamics, warm-ups utilizing dynamics and observing dynamics in a song. The song I was working on was My America but this lesson can work with any song or piece of music.

Concept: Dynamics

National Standards: Performing – Rehearse, evaluate and refine

Objectives: Students will apply dynamics to warm-ups and songs.

Assessment: Informal – Diagnostic

Sequence:


 * 1) 1. Show dynamic symbols f, mf, mp, p, <, > (I wrote them on a white board)
 * 2) 2. Ask students for the names and the meanings of each symbol (have the student write the meaning by the symbols for students to reference during the lesson)
 * 3) Create movements to accompany each different dynamic, use these movements throughout the lesson
 * 4) 3. Sing warm-ups using different dynamics (My warm-ups included one dynamic, several different dynamics as well as crescendo and decrescendo)
 * 5) 4. Go through sections of your piece focusing on different dynamics (At each section I asked students to raise their hand and tell me what the dynamic was as well as it’s meaning to provide reinforcement of material)