August 26th

Seventh Grade - Any student who does not complete their jingle in class must complete it for homework.  The finished project must fit in a 25-35 second time frame.  The students were "hired" by me to write a jingle for a 30 second commercial clip.

September 24 - 28

HAPPY FALL!!!!!

Seventh Grade - This week we will be working on learning about jingles.  We will write our own jingle and perform it for our classmates.  We will decide which jingle we like the most (catchy tune maybe?) and we will make our own commercial.  The only home work would be on Wednesday night, if you don't finish your jingle in class.

Eighth Grade - Monday we will be playing our songs of choice on the guitar.  Tuesday we start to learn the 12 bar blues and being our unit on Jazz Artists.

HOMEWORK - WRITTEN TEST ON WEDNESDAY - the parts of the guitar and chords.

   RESEARCH PROJECT - DUE on OCTOBER 1st!!!!

Chorus Class - Monday - you will demonstrate your section for Extraordinary's Choreography. 

  Wednesday - We will work out all of Extraordinary's choreography

  Friday - We will sing the County Chorus Piece.

September 17 - 21

Seventh Grade - This week we are discussing found sounds.  We listened to two found sound ensembles and we will be creating our own found sound pieces on Tuesday and performing them on Wednesday.

HW for MONDAY NIGHT - Bring in a found sound "instrument."
WRITTEN TEST THURSDAY - Listening Vocab.


Eighth Grade - This week we are continuing with the guitar unit.  We will be playing the C,G,G7, and D7 chords while accompanying ourselves.  We will also we starting to work on some jazz pieces and learning about jazz artists.

Chorus Class - We will be deciding on our piece for the holiday show.  We will begin to choreograph Extraordinary.... 
  County Chorus papers are due!!!!

Chorus Class

Chorus Class will have a singing test on Achieved on Friday 9/14

Eighth Grade Research Project

EIGHTH GRADE

You will write and research on the artist/band you chose in class.
You must have 1 picture of your artist /band.
Your report: Must be at least 5 paragraphs and must contain –

Biography of Artist (personal details)

History of Artist (musical information)

Influences (Those who influenced the artist and vice versa)

Update (If still living, where is the artist today?)



The report MUST be in PARAGRAPH FORM!!!! I do not want bullets or fragments. This MUST be in your own words!!! If you copy and paste from the internet you will get a zero and be reported for plagiarism.

Back Page –

Artist’s “Greatest Hits” in quotes

BIBLIOGRAPHY of all Work Cited (at least 2) – all references must be in bibliography for proper credit!

DUE Monday October 1st

Picture – 10pts

5x5 – 50 pts

Greatest Hits – 10 pts

Bibliography – 20 pts

Presentation – 60 pts

Sept. 5 - Eighth Grade

All new lyrics are due for the Banana Boat Song tomorrow!  Please have three verses and refrains set for class on Thursday.

Week 2 - September 4 - 7

Seventh Grade - We will begin to perform our pentatonic creations this week.  There is a WRITTEN TEST ON WEDNESDAY!!!  We will do a rhythmic listening activity on Thursday.  Friday we will begin learning our new vocabulary that will be needed for all of our listening activities.  We will be focusing on listening during the entire course of 7th grade music.

Eighth Grade - We are reviewing for the test on Tuesday.  There is a WRITTEN TEST ON WEDNESDAY!!!!  Following the test we will be working on writing our own lyrics to the banana boat song.  We will be performing the banana boat song with percussion accompaniment starting on Thursday and finishing on Friday.

Chorus Class - We will find our range this week.  We will begin working on the county chorus audition piece.  We will also work on note naming so we can become proficient music readers.