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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students follow several Bay Area teens as they make their way through the final tension-filled rounds of the Youth Speaks spoken word competitions, and get a glimpse of their lives and thoughts in their emotion-packed poetry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students perform in musical ensembles using the district adjudication sheet to assess their performance. They practice for the district music festival. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students view a video about street musicians/singers and then perform in a small ensemble, recognizing that there is no real star of an ensemble. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students determine performance schedules and clothing guidelines for choral music. They explore the music appreciation curriculum and assessment expectations. Students evaluate choral ensemble expectations and opportunities. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students imitate rhythmic patterns created by the teacher or taken from the drum performance of "Oshossi." They study and perform some of the layered and interlocking rhythms of the drum ensembles of Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, Suriname, and Venezuela using classroom percussion instruments and combine three different rhythmic ostinatos written in TUBS (Time Unit Box System) notation to produce a composite ensemble pattern. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students sing or play music in order to complete a self-critique that performance. Working in ensemble groups, students practice and play a piece of music. Ensemble performances are recorded and each member's performance is critiqued using a rubric. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 10th
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Students investigate Chinese percussion instruments and ensemble performances. They play compositions with Chinese percussion instruments such as small gongs, large gongs and drums. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 9th
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Students compare the way Taiko and Samba drum performances have influenced each other. They explore the cyclic patterns in drumming styles and how polyrhythmic traditions share common performance procedures. Students receive a part in a drumming ensemble and practice for a performance. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students performs on instruments in an ensemble, maintaining a common tempo, blending instrumental timbres, and matching dynamic levels. They respond to the tempo and dynamics cues of the conductor. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students play through a duet, on part A and part B, with out stopping or giving up. Students become comfortable with playing in small ensembles. They also get more comfortable with their peers listening to them perform. Full Review »
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