Month

Content/Topic

Skills

Assessment

Standards

September

Posture

Music staff

Note names

Note values

Sight reading

Breathing

Steady Beat

Rhythm

Pitch

Harmony

• Students use solfege to sing in the key of G.
• Students use quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, whole notes, and their corresponding rests.
• Students sing solfege in unison
• Students will read solfege in both treble and bass clefs
• Combine exercises to create harmony

Teacher Observation:

Class Participation

Individual Improvement

Individual Lessons

A1, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3, G1, G2,

October

* Unison

Posture

Music Staff

Note Names

Sight Reading

Breath control

Rhythm

Pitch 

Harmony

Repeat sign

Systems in music

Alike and different phrases

Homophonic texture

Reading in the key of C

Pick-up notes

Eighth notes

• Remembering the pitch after a rest
• Find the starting pitch when the exercise begins with a rest
• Echo effect in voices
• Sing the tonic Pitch Ladder in the key of G.
• Starting a song with harmony.
• Singing skips within the tonic chord.
• Find phrases which are alike and similar.
• Determine form of a piece.
• Isolate and practice intervallic skips
• Sing with accompaniment and a capella.
• Use the Kodaly method to learn pick-up notes and perform them.
• Move Do to C and sing solfege starting on the C.
• Sing the Pitch Ladder in the key of C.
• Establish the steady beat and sing the eighth notes using “ti” for the eight notes.
• Switch main form of counting to numeric from Kodaly

Teacher Observation:

Class Participation

Individual Improvement

Individual Lessons

Concert October 28th

A1, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3, G1, G2,

November

Form Pitch

Expression

Rhythm

Texture

Timbre

• Eighth note subdivision and

syncopation resulting from the eighth-quarter-eighth rhythm

• Numeric counting

Teacher Observation:

Class Participation

Individual Improvement

Individual Lessons

A1, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3, G1, G2,

December

Form

Pitch

Expression

Rhythm

Texture

Timbre

• Discuss Form of Literature to aide in memorization
• Practice singing pitches in songs to form concept of individual responsibility and section responsibility, thus building the choir as a whole
• Breath support
• Vowel placement
• Dynamics, vocabulary and execution
• Various rhythms taken from the current literature we are studying
• Study the over-all sound of the choir with regard to the writing of the composer, how many lines are going at one time, etc.
• Individual sound as it relates to the section and the whole of the choir

Teacher Observation:

Class Participation

Individual Improvement

Individual Lessons

Christmas Concert

A, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3, G1, G2,

January

F

P

E

R

T

T

• Daily exercises to warm up the vocal mechanism of the student
• Sight singing exercises to build the pitch and rhythm vocabulary of the choral students
• Study of the form of the musical pieces we are studying to facilitate an understanding of compositional practice, performance practice, and memorization
• Vocalizes and work on parts and with the whole choir to work on dynamics, tempo changes, meter changes, and other factors in the literature we are studying to express the ideas, thoughts and feelings behind the marriage of the words and music we are studying.
• Drill on specific rhythms of the songs

Teacher Observation:

Class Participation

Individual Improvement

Solo and Ensemble Festival

A, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3, G1, G2,

February

F

P

E

R

R

T

• Breath control
• Pitch reading skills
• Rhythm reading skills
• Dynamics
• Vocabulary

Teacher Observation:

Class Participation

Individual Improvement

Individual Lessons

A, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3, G1, G2,

March

F

P

E

R

R

T

• Breath Control
• Pitch Reading Skills
• Rhythm reading skills
• Dynamics
• Vocabulary

Teacher Observations:

Class Participation

Individual Improvement

Individual Lessons

Large Group Festival

A1, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3, G1, G2,

April

F

P

E

R

R

T

• Breath Control
• Pitch reading skills
• Rhythm reading skills
• Dynamics
• Vocabulary

Teacher Observations

Individual Lessons

WSMA Honors Auditions

A1, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3, G1, G2,

May

F

P

E

R

R

T

• Breath Control
• Pitch reading skills
• Rhythm reading skills
• Dynamics
• Vocabulary

Teacher Observations:

Class Participation

Individual Improvement

Individual Lessons

Spring Concert

A1, A2, A3, B2, E1, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3, G1, G2,

June

F

P

E

R

R

T

• Breath Control
• Pitch reading skills
• Rhythm reading skills
• Dynamics
• Vocabulary

Teacher Observations:

Class Participation

Individual Improvement

A, A2, E1, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3, G1, G2,