Download Instrumental Music Interm 3rd 9 weeks

2016.17 Seventh Grade Intermediate Instrumental Music, Quarter 3
On-Going Standards
Big Ideas/Key Concepts: Students will demonstrate regular maintenance of their instruments. They will consistently play with correct basic
techniques and begin to develop practice strategies to improve performance. They will demonstrate an understanding of the historical
connections to the music being performed.
Standards
Student Friendly “I Can” Statements
Proper Instrument Care and Maintenance
7.IM.2.1.2 Demonstrate proper daily maintenance routine. (i.e., corks,
slides, valves, reeds, bows, strings).
Technique
7.IM.2.3.2 Demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of breathing,
bowing, embouchure, fingering, articulation, and/or percussion
sticking.
I can clean and maintain the playing condition of my instrument.
I can demonstrate proficient technique in Grade II music:
 Correct posture
 Proper instrument and hand position
 Correct breathing, full length bowing, embouchure,
fingering, articulation and/or percussion sticking/mallet grip
and appropriate auxiliary percussion
7.WCE.IM.1 Demonstrate practice strategies as guided by the teacher.
I can independently implement teacher provided practice strategies
to improve my performance.
7.IM.9.1.2 List historical periods as related to selected music
examples.
I can identify the time period of the music being rehearsed.
I can list major musical movements.
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Big Ideas/Key Concepts: At the intermediate level, students should be able to play with correct technique level II band or strings music.
Students should be working to present a performance. Students will begin to make connections between performance music and society.
1.0 Singing
7.IM.1.2.2 Sing a basic two-part harmonization with both parts using
the same rhythm.
I can sing my part in a two-part harmonization where both parts
have the same rhythm.
2.0 Playing Instruments
Characteristic Tone Quality
7.IM.2.2.1 Produce a fundamental tone throughout range of the
instrument.
I can produce a characteristic tone throughout the intermediate level
range of my instrument.
Technique
7.WCE.IM.5 Adjust intonation while performing with others.
I can adjust my intonation to others when performing.
7.WCE.IM.6 Demonstrate appropriate bow distribution.
I can play with specific bow distribution at the balance point.
Pitch and Rhythms
7.IM.2.4.3 Identify, notate and perform selected intermediate level
(grade II) rhythms and pitches.
I can identify and notate the key signatures of music being studied.
I can perform triplets and syncopated rhythm patterns.
Musicality
7.IM.2.5.2 I can identify and demonstrate and understanding of
selected concepts of style.
I can demonstrate dynamic and tempo control, even when they
change.
I can perform as an effective member of an ensemble by listening to
the entire ensemble.
Sight-Reading
7.IM.2.6.2 Apply basic elements association with successful sightreading.
I can independently and accurately sight-read examples from
selected Grade I ensemble music.
I can independently use a systematic approach to sight-reading.
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Scales and Rudiments
7.IM.2.7.3 Perform a major scale in at least four keys/four rudiments.
Winds/Mallets
I can play the chromatic scale.
Strings
I can play e, g and d natural minor scales and arpeggios one octave.
Percussion
I can play flam accent rudiments on my snare drum and demonstrate
dampening techniques on timpani.
3.0 Improvising
7.IM.3.2.2 Create a variation of a simple melody of no more than
three pitches.
I can create a variation of a given melody with up to three pitches.
4.0 Composing
7.IM.4.1.3 Create a melody using a variety of pitches and rhythms.
5.0 Reading and Notating
7.IM.5.1.2 Recognize and apply standard notation symbols for
dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression.
I can create, write and perform an original melody within specified
guidelines.
I can accurately perform examples from a variety of Grade II music.
I can notate basic rhythmic patterns when presented aurally.
6.0 Listening and Analyzing
7.IM.6.2.2 Describe, verbally or by writing/drawing/mapping, specific
events in a musical example.
I can identify form, genre, tempo, dynamics and orchestration in a
selected example.
7.0 Evaluating
7.IM.7.2.2 Construct a written evaluation of one’s own performance
using appropriate vocabulary/terminology.
I can evaluate my own performance, verbal or written, based on
selected criteria and using appropriate vocabulary/terminology.
8.0 Interdisciplinary Connections
7.IM.8.3.2 Discuss the progress of technology throughout the history
of music.
I can describe how technology has changed over the last 100 years.
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I can create a timeline illustrating the progress of technology
throughout history as related to music.
9.0 Historical and Cultural Relationships
7.IM.9.3.2 Compare the accessibility of music throughout history
between the poor (common man) and the rich (nobility/educated).
I can compare and contrast the accessibility of music throughout
history between the poor and the rich.
7.WCE.IM.7 Analyze the impact of technology on the accessibility of
music.
I can explain how technology has impacted the availability of music
to different people of the centuries.
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