G.+Savage

Composing and Evaluating music ||< * Everyone can perform, create and respond to music in meaningful ways.
 * **Topic** || **Enduring Understanding** || **Essential Question** || **Performance Assessment** ||
 * 5th grade
 * Creating and performing music are forms of self expression.
 * Music is made up of elements.
 * Music is communicated through written notation.
 * Having a common musical notation "language" allows us to perform, hear and appreciate others' musical ideas ||< * How is sound organized to create music?
 * Why should we respect music if we don't like the way it sounds?
 * Is there good and bad music? || * Create your own dictation test ( accuracy of rhythm, garage band, imovie)
 * Self Evaulation (imovie)
 * Class Evaulation by doing created test
 * Rubric for creating your short composition
 * Self Evaluation rubric

Introduce students to I-movie (show how to start new project, how to record, how to save) We recorded the performance of a 4 beat rhythm on live instruments that was repeated twice We created a dictation test using our 5th grade rhythms (smart board activity where kids came up and wrote rhythms they heard)

Intoduce students to Garage Band Create a eight beat pattern Create an ABA form (Learn how to save garage band file and import to I-movie)

Then we would practice until students have a fluency using the basic functions of both programs After this we would....