A simple melody
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2215/
A lesson plan for Grade 5 English Language Arts and Music Education
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- Appropriate grades
- 5
- Subjects
- arts (music), English language arts (writing), thinking skills (information literacy, visual literacy), diverse learners (multiple intelligences), teaching methods (discovery learning)
- Provider
- The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students learn the notes of the treble clef staff, play simple melodies, and complete a short melodic composition.
Students will:
- apply prior knowledge of rhythmic concepts in their short compositions;
- compose lyrics through poetry rhyming;
- compose, on classroom instruments, a short melody that uses Middle C, D, E, F, and G;
- identify the letter names of the lines and spaces in treble clef;
- play, on classroom instruments, written melodies that use Middle C, D, E, F, and G;
- play the compositions of their classmates; and
- use patterns in writing poetry that match the rhythm of the tune composed.
ARTSEDGE provides detailed instructions for completing the lesson, a supply list, suggestions for assessment and extension activities, and links to related web resources and an assessment rubric.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Music Education (2001)
Grade 5
- Goal 2: The learner will play on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
- Objective 2.01: Play with pitch and rhythmic accuracy.
- Objective 2.04: Play independent instrumental parts while others sing and/or play rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic parts.
- Goal 4: The learner will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.
- Objective 4.01: Create and arrange music to accompany readings or dramatizations.
- Objective 4.02: Compose short pieces for voices or instruments using major and minor pentatonic and diatonic scales and varied rhythmic values.
- Objective 4.03: Arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments.
- Objective 4.04: Use a variety of sound, notational, and technological sources to compose and arrange music.
- Objective 4.05: Show respect for the composing and arranging efforts of others.
- Goal 5: The learner will read and notate music.
- Objective 5.01: Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted note and rest durations in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meters.
- Objective 5.02: Read melodic notation in the treble clef.
- Objective 5.03: Identify notated pitches in the treble and/or bass clef.
- Objective 5.05: Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in patterns.
- Objective 5.06: Show respect for the reading and notating efforts of others.
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 5
- Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
- Objective 3.01: Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using interpretive, critical, and evaluative processes by:
- analyzing word choice and content.
- examining reasons for a character's actions, taking into account the situation and basic motivation of the character.
- creating and presenting a product that effectively demonstrates a personal response to a selection or experience.
- examining alternative perspectives.
- evaluating the differences among genres.
- examining relationships among characters.
- making and evaluating inferences and conclusions about characters, events and themes.
- Objective 3.01: Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using interpretive, critical, and evaluative processes by:
