Lesson Plan 1.
Jamiah Harrison
VMRC Intergenerational Choir
Rehearsal Number _2__: Schedule and General Lesson Plan:
(50 x minutes = 30.9 min. = Golden Mean of the Class = Harder stuff before
this!)
1. LESSON # 1: NAME_Jamiah Harrison_________________(6 minutes each!)
REHEARSAL THREADS: My Rehearsal threads today are accuracy and rhythm
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: My goals today are to clean up the rhythm and notice
how it is different every time. and then add the notes.
Assessment Strategies:
Throughout this rehearsal I will engage in formal assessment by:
Throughout this rehearsal I will engage in informal assessment by:
Start Timings Activity or Piece Developmental Hierarchy Differentiations
Time Totals Level/Chunks, Plan and Sequence
Time: (:30/6:00) Activity 1: Chunk 1: Welcome and Goals
Welcome & Goals
Activity 1: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:
Chunk 1: Welcome and Goals
1s. Good Morning VMRC! please take out you're a mean one mister grinch on page 2
2v. Good Morning
1a. My rehearsal threads are rhythm and going through it all My goals are to clean up and
introduce the rhythms are different between the verses. So we will speak through the whole song then
sing it.
TRANSITION WITH: 1d. I will say the rhythms for each phrase and then I want you to repeat it
after.
Time (1:00/1:30/6:00) Activity 2: Rhythm Chunk 1: verse 1
sets Chunk 2: verse 2
Chunk 3: verse 3
Activity 2: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:
Chunk 1: verse 1 (You can do about 10 in a minute!)
1a. You're a mean one Mister grinch
2v Choir echoes
1a. You really are a heel
2v. Choir echos
1a.You're as cuddly as a cactus
2v Choir echoes
1a. You're as charming as an eel, mister grinch
2v. Choir echos
1a. you're a bad banana with a
2v. Choir echos
1a. Greasy black peel
2v. choir echos
3rsa. Great job now let us do that with the three other verses.
* do with the other verses*
So this would be Chunk 2 and Chunk 3.
TRANSITION WITH: 3sra. Great job! Let’s now move on and speak the rhythm from the WB: lets now go
beginning through. backwards and sing
each phrase by
itself
Wind it forward:
-sing the whole
thing.
Time: (2:00/4:30/6:00) Activity 3: Speak Chunk 3:
rhythm of the whole Chunk 2:
song. Chunk 1:
Activity 3: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:
Chunk 3:
1a. Speak verse 3 together.
2v. Choir and I speak together
Chunk 2:
1a. speak verse 2 together
2v. Choir and I speak verse 2
Chunk 1:
1a. Speak Verse 1 together
2v. choir and I speak the verse together.
TRANSITION WITH: 3sra. Great job I really like how we are all following together, now can we
sing it from the beginning with hailey.
Time: (1:00/5:30/6:00) Activity 4: Read and Chunk 1: Sing verse one
singing the melody Chunk 2: sing verse 2
Chunk 3 sing verse 3
Chunk 4: sing the end
Activity 4: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT: Wind it forward:
Chunk 1: Verse one Wind it back:
1b. I conduct
2v. Choir performs
3nsra. Great!
Chunk 2: Verse 2
1b. I conduct Wind it forward:
2v. Choir performs
3nsra. Great!
Chunk 3: Verse 3
1b. I conduct
2v. Choir performs Wind it back:
3nsra. Great!
Chunk 4: sing last part
3sra. Well done! I heard great tuning and great tone on this piece!
TRANSITION WITH: Great work! Let’s summarize our learning for today!
Time: (:30/6:00/6:00 Activity 5: activity
summary
Activity 5: DIRECT INSTRUCTION SCRIPT:
Chunk 1: Reviewing rehearsal threads and goals
1a. My rehearsal threads and goals for today were to do rhythm with the goal of finishing the
song.all through games, echoes and transfers to the music itself.
We very clearly met those goals, as we did great work on our tone set work, and then
transferred into reviewing the melody aurally and THEN we read the music!
You heard the great tuning we were achieving through all the octave work, and the clear
pitch and developing tone quality.
Chunk 2: Transfer and continuation
1a/1d. Let’s transfer all of this great learning to our next conductor’s work and to next week!
POST CLASS: Meet the choir members, help clean up folders and name tags!
