Sample Daily Lesson Plans for Assessment: Zachary Gates

Objective
Students will be able to
aurally identify a variety
of uses of 21st century
tools of expression in
electronic minimalism
while listening to hip-hop
written after 2009.
Students will analyze and
compare these tools with
symbolism and
text/culture-painting in
these songs through the
use of a vocabulary of 21st
century tools of
expression.

Objective
Students will be able to
identify features in the
score for Balleilakka
that show that it is a
fast paced Bollywoodstyled piece.

Do Now
Take out previous
assignment of
brainstorming
popular hip-hop
songs written
past 2009 that
might use 21st
century tools of
expression.

Do Now
Open
Balleilakka
and find a
partner in
your voice
section.

Procedure
1. Have students
listen to songs and
solidify one song to
choose.
2. Have students
listen to song
multiple times and
document uses of
21st CToE by
identifying them by
time and type.
3. Have students in
partners discuss
these Events and
what they could
mean as for the
message of the song.
4. Have students
make advanced
musical maps of the
song they listen to
and analyzed.

Process
1. Review with students
musical attributes that
point to genre and style.
2. Prompt them to work in
pairs to find and mark
these sections. They have
10 minutes.
3. Have each group of
students report back to the
class on their findings.
4. Listen to a recording of
the piece, focusing on the
parts students picked out.

Closing activity
Students
present on their
findings and
interpretations
as class shares
interpretations
as well.

Assessment
Ongoing
formative
assessment of
students
understanding
and participation
will take place
during class
discussion about
21st CToE when
reviewing
vocabulary and
judging the songs.
Summative
assessment by
completion of an
advanced musical
map of their
selection,
showing visual
understanding of
Events.

Closing Activity
Students quickly
are taught and
sing the easiest
sing-able section
of the piece.

Assessment
Formative teacher
observation,
student selfassessment

Objectives
Students will
create original
compositions
in a way that
uses 21st CToE
for the fusion of
hip-hop and
minimalist
electronica.
Students will
analyze and
evaluate the
quality of their
work.

Do Now
Open up
Ableton Live
(DAW) and
turn on and
configure the
Midi controller
with a partner.

Procedure
1. Have students open a new
project in Ableton and finish
configuring any electronic
instruments that they may
want to use.
2. Distribute grading rubric
for the composition project
and go through it,
describing what the
composition must entail.
3. Discuss and review 21st
CToE and have students
collaborate in this
composition.
4. Give feedback throughout
the course of the lesson to
groups who ask, pose them
questions and engage in
reciprocal teaching.
5. Have each student
convert their final product
to a sound file and have
them fill out the rubric for
themselves as selfassessment.

Closing Activity
Students will
present their
compositions to
the rest of the
class and will
give written
feedback on the
pieces.

Assessment
Ongoing formative
assessment of students
understanding and
participation will take
place during class
discussion about 21st
CToE when reviewing
vocabulary and
creating the songs.
Summative assessment
by completion of a
musical composition
using 21st CToE based
off of a rubric, showing
critical understanding
of Events.