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Looking to use Middle School Lesson 11 in your Middle School classroom?

While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, String Family, Timbre of Orchestral Instruments

You'll also cover the themes of: Composers, 1700s

Middle School Lesson 11

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Introduction

In this lesson you will

  1. Learn about the song “Green Sally Up”
  2. Teach “Green Sally Up”
  3. Play the “Green Sally Up” game
  4. Create a spoken B section for “Green Sally Up”
  5. Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Green Sally Up”
  6. Review “Hanky Panky”
  7. Review accidentals
  8. Optional: Complete the worksheet
  9. Identify the accidental in “Green Sally Up”
  10. Play Poison Melody to practice reading syncopated rhythms
  11. Learn about the string family
  12. Learn about Mozart
  13. Play along with “Agitate” by Mozart with desk drums or bucket drums
  14. Option 1: Use manipulatives to create a 16-beat rhythm using syncopated rhythms
  15. Option 2: Use the rhythm composition tool to create a 16-beat rhythm using syncopated rhythms
  16. Try playing your composition with the audio file

Extensions:

Musicplay is a menu. The teacher is not expected to teach every song or activity. Choose the songs and activities from the list that will best fit your schedule and the needs of your students.

Objectives

  • I can keep a steady beat.
  • I can describe the string family.
  • I can read, create and perform rhythms with syncopations.

Learn about the song "Green Sally Up"

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Teach "Green Sally Up"

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Song Used: Green Sally Up

Teach the song by rote. When the students know the song, teach the game.

Play the "Green Sally Up" game

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Song Used: Green Sally Up

Each student should have a partner.

For the first eight measures, partners clap own hands, partner’s right hands, own hands, partner’s left hands.

At measure nine, partners begin a handshake pattern.
- Shake shake (shake hands) thumb thumb (shake thumbs)
- Shake shake (shake hands) finger finger (grasp fingers and shake)
- Shake thumb (2x) shake finger (2x) slap backs of hands together three times, clap palms

Repeat and look for a new partner. The kids demo video will help you and your students learn how to play the game

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Create a spoken B section for "Green Sally Up"

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Song Used: Green Sally Up

Create a spoken B section for the song "Green Sally Up".

In the song, Green Sally was UP. Then DOWN.

Make up a rhyme using your own name and up/down.
For example:
Denise is up. Denise is down.
Denise is dancing all around the town.

You can use up/down, in/out, here/there, high/low as part of your rhyme.

When you have created your rhyme, create a new clap pattern to accompany your rhyme.

Sing the song as an A section, then perform your rhyme as a B section.

In-person learning: Invite students to perform their rhymes for the class.
Create a performance using the song as an A section, and the rhymes as B C D sections.

Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for "Green Sally Up"

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Review "Hanky Panky"

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Song Used: Hanky Panky

Teach this song by rote and teach the game. This is an excellent way to assess whether or not your students are keeping a steady beat. When the game is known well, the teacher can leave the game to observe and make notes of any students that are not keeping a steady beat as they play. If you seat your students in class list order in the circle, this observation can be done really easily.

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Review accidentals

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Song Used: Hanky Panky

Review accidentals with your students. An accidental is a flat, sharp, or natural that is not in the key signature.

Optional: Complete the worksheet

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Identify the accidental in "Green Sally Up"

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Song Used: Green Sally Up

Identify what kind of accidental is used in "Green Sally Up." If you are able, play the song without the accidental and then play the song with the accidental. What did the accidental do? Practice drawing the accidental.

Play Poison Melody to practice reading syncopated rhythms

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Practice Item Used: 15 q qr Q h eq e

Play Poison Melody to practice reading syncopated rhythms.

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Learn about the string family

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Unit Used: Instruments of the Orchestra

Learn about the string family of instruments.

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Learn about Mozart

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Listening Selection Used: Ballettmusik II: Agitaté from Les petits riens

Learn about Mozart.

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Play along with "Agitate" by Mozart with desk drums or bucket drums

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Listening Selection Used: Ballettmusik II: Agitaté from Les petits riens

Play along with "Agitate" by Mozart with desk drums or bucket drums.

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Option 1: Use manipulatives to create a 16-beat rhythm using syncopated rhythms

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Unit Used: Note Values

Create and play syncopated rhythms.

Create a new 16-beat rhythm.
Do you like it? If you do, keep it.
Try something different if you like.

When you are happy with your composition, copy it onto a piece of paper.
Decide how to perform your composition.

Option 2: Use the rhythm composition tool to create a 16-beat rhythm using syncopated rhythms

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Tool Used: Rhythm Composition

Create and play syncopated rhythms.

Create a new 16-beat rhythm.
Do you like it? If you do, keep it.
Try something different if you like.

When you are happy with your composition, copy it onto a piece of paper.
Decide how to perform your composition.

Try playing your composition with the audio file

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Try playing your composition with the audio file. Repeat until the music ends. Have each student in turn, perform their composition.

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