November 29 - December 2

7th Grade - We will be creating a found sound piece of music and performing it for our classmates. We will listen to a piece of found sound music and analyze what we hear.

There will be a written quiz on Friday on the Vocab for Listening. Use the vocab sheet as a study guide.

Home Work - DUE Monday 12-5-11 Students must give me the title of a song and the artist of a song they want to hear and have their classmates analyze. This must be school appropriate with both language and message!

8th Grade - We are learning the e minor chord this week. We will continue to practice the 5 chords we learned already and learn to accompany a few songs.

All students must sign up for the rock and roll artist that they want to research and write their 5x5 about. The directions for the assignment will go out next week, but they will sign up for their artist this week.

Chorus Class - We will be rehearsing on stage with the microphones. We will be finalizing everything we need for the show.

November 14 - 18

Seventh Grade - This week we are performing our pentatonic songs. We are learning the terms for music listening activities. We will be getting the vocab in the form of a study guide.

We will analyze the piece "Spring" using a perception chart. We will be reading music and playing a song together using the boomwackers. Friday we will be listening to songs in many styles and we will use our listening vocab to help us determine which style of music we are hearing.

Eighth Grade - We will finishing performing our own rendition of "The Banana Boat Song." We will do an experiment on the effect music has on our mood and how we write. We will be discussing the guitar and it's make up as well as being assigned a guitar for use this marking period.
We will begin learning the first four chords on the guitar.

Chorus Class - We will be working on getting our pictures for the power point presentations. I would like to get onto the stage with the microphones for a full sing through using the microphones we have available.

November 7-11

Seventh Grade - We are writing a song using the pentatonic scale. The students will be performing their song starting on Thursday. We are doing a rhythmic listening dictation activity.
Students will be taking a written test on the notes, rests, note values, and rest values on WEDNESDAY!

Eighth Grade - Students learned the calypso rhythms on Monday as well as "The Banana Boat Song." Students are writing more verses to go with this songs. We will begin to perform our verses on Wed or Thursday.

Students will be taking a written test on the notes, rests, and their values on WEDNESDAY!

Chorus - Students will finish choreographing the swing song for the concert. We will be taking some pictures for our PowerPoint at the night show. We will continue singing our feature piece on stage.