Dover-Sherborn Middle School

Curriculum Road Maps

Course Title: Music Grade: 7

Unit: Musical Notation, Pitch, Sight singing and Sight reading

Month Presented: 1^st & 2^nd week Unit Length (in weeks): 2 weeks

Essential Question (s): If you were given the song “Happy Birthday” could you play the notes and sing it correctly by looking at the music?

Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to read the notes and pitches on the treble clef.

Students will be able to sing a c major scale without accompaniment.

Students will be able to sight read/sing & clap, rhythm and pitches of the treble clef using solfege.

Students will understand the process of reading music and the terms needed to be a successful musician.

Students will understand the relationship of a steady beat to rhythmic patterns in

4 2 3 6

4 , 4, 4, 8.

Students will b able to write down 1 or 2 simple rhythmic patterns in the above time signatures after hearing them 3 – 4 times.

Students will be able to recognize simple melodies by use of solfege syllables.

Skills: Students will sigh sing the notes of the treble clef, review musical terms, sight read rhythmic patterns.

Instructional Strategies & Activities: Games, flashcards, handouts are used to help students remember vocabulary terms. Sight singing strategies are also explored through modeling, repetition, dictation, listening and solfege.

* As midi lab is established software will provide other activities

Assessment Strategies: Assessment will be measured through, quizzes, tests, board work and oral answers.

* As the midi lab is established software will provide self assessment strategies.

Materials Utilized: Handouts, flashcards, whiteboard.

* Computer