Sight+Reading+made+easy

Name: Andrew Jahde

Subject: 7th grade band

National Standards: Sing, Play, Read, Evaluate

Behavioral Learning Objectives: Without the use of me clicking, students will be able to keep a steady beat while playing this unfamiliar music. Students will also be able to play their part with a reasonable amount of accuracy.

Materials: Instruments, Trumpets of Seville

Sequence of Activites: -Start out in sectionals working on Trumpets of Seville. I will be taking the percussion and helping them with trick rhythms and other problem areas they may run into. Make sure they know the difference between two eighth notes and a dotted eighth-sixteenth note rhythms, this happens alot throughout this song. -Next I will help the students figure out areas that might confuse them like reminders of repeats and where to go at the DS al coda. -The students will likely slow down and drag during the songs. To remedy this I will begin by clicking sticks, so they have an audible reminder of the beat, and then move to only conducting to help them with the beat. -After sectionals we will go into full band for the last half of the rehearsal. -Start by having everybody clap the rhythms that are difficult in the piece and will surely trip them up if gone unnoticed. -Have trumpets play the main theme so that the band can hear it and so they get one more chance to play through it before the full band run-through. -Run through and then go back to hit trouble spots -Run again once more if time allows to assess improvement

Students will be assessed on their ability to accurately play their part on Trumpets of Seville, this will be assessed by improvement from the full run through at the beginning to the end of rehearsal or the final full run through.

Teacher effectiveness reminders: Remember not to put up with talking etc. keep students focused. Be patient with the students because this is their first time playing this piece and it may take them a while to be able to play it accurately.