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Content Standards:: 1: Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

• Students sing on pitch 3 songs, from memory, representing diverse genres with appropriate timbre, diction, and expression, while maintaining a steady beat and good posture.
     1): a simple song as a solo
     2): an ostinato
     3): a full-class unison song
• Students sing a short phrase as a solo, (as students pass the microphone) , on pitch and in rhythm, with appropriate timbre, diction and posture.
• Students sing on pitch songs representative of at least 3 distinct cultures with appropriate timbre, diction, and expression, while maintaining a steady beat and good posture.
• Students start, end, and make tempo changes in their singing in response to gestures of a conductor.
• Students identify and and demonstrate use of singing, speaking, whispering, and shouting voices.