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 **Lesson Plan #**2 **(PPA Format)** **Teacher Candidate:** Danielle Guthrie

**Date:** 10/28/08 **Cooperating Teacher:** Robert Buck

**School District:** Freeman
 * Grade:** 9-12

**School:** Freeman High School **University Supervisor:** Mel Clayton **Unit/Subject:** Music- Percussion Ensemble **Lesson Title:** //Piece for Percussion// ** INSTRUCTIONAL PLAN ** **Learning Targets:** By the end of the lesson, students will demonstrate improved smoothness between transitions in the piece, as well as tighten the precise interlocking rhythms, accents, and dynamics. (1A, B, C, D)  **Music EALR 1:** The student understands and applies arts knowledge and skills __Component 1.1.1:__ Understands arts concepts and vocabulary (elements) //GLE:// Demonstrates comprehension of rhythms in duple/triple meter (rhythm) //GLE:// Identifies and performs syncopated rhythms __Component 1.1.2:__ Understands arts concepts and vocabulary (Principles of Organization) //GLE:// Recognizes and interprets standard musical symbols and notation appropriate to music rehearsed and performed (notation) __Component 1.2:__ Develops arts skills and techniques //GLE:// Independently analyzes and interprets music rehearsed and performed (stylistically and expressively) //GLE:// Refines tonal production to create a mature, characteristic sound **Music EALR 2:** The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic processes __Component 2.2:__ Applies a performance process in the arts: Rehearses, adjusts, and refines through evaluation and problem solving **Assessment Strategies:** The lesson will begin with the students playing through the entire piece once, stopping only when necessary. The instructor will then work backwards from the end of the piece, working on the transitions between main sections. In each section, the instructor will make sure that the beginning tempo is upheld, as well as playing the correct accents, rhythms, and dynamics. How far the class gets through the whole piece depends on the learning pace of the class, as well as the instructor’s assessment of improvement within each section. (1B, C, D, 2A, D) **Grouping:** The whole class will rehearse as a whole, however, some parts may be asked to play individually and with other parts in order to hear similar/interlocking rhythms.