CAP Criteria-Based Lesson Plan Template

Orchestrating Dynamics (Differentiation Plan)

CAP Criteria:
Knowledge of the Discipline
4)Understanding the vocabulary/ concepts of the discipline-

Creativity/Experimentation
6) Conceptualizing Ideas
10) Willingness to try something new

Expressing Voice

14) Collaborating with others to create art

15) Leadership skills- ensemble leading.
16) Participation and engagement
20) Critiquing/ Analyzing the work of others.

Subject Speci c Skill/Competency:

Music vocabulary- tempo, dynamics.
Analysing emotional content of a scene
Conducting, leading an ensemble
Creating music with others .

Learning Goal:
Students will learn basic vocabulary and parameters in music
such as dynamics, piano, forte, crescendo, decrescendo, and
tempi, and their function in shaping moods, emotions and tension
 in lm. Then students will be able to use those terms to analyse
and talk about the music of lm clip examples.
Driving Question:
How do dynamics and tempo affect the mood and pacing of the
lm?


Activity Description:
Go through conduction exercises with dynamics and tempo
What lm clips with speci c attention to dynamics.
See our lesson plan below



Materials & Room Set-up:
Projector, laptop with video clips, white board

Differentiation/Accommodations:
Kinesthetic - doing the exercise with their bodies.
Visual - seeing the symbols on the board, seeing conductor move.
Aural- doing sound exercise, listen to examples.
Interpersonal- group discussion


Connections to Prior Learning or Outside Knowledge:

ACTIVITY BREAKDOWN:

Time Description
Introductions, name, whats your favorite music?
0-5 Stand, move to front in choir formation
5-20 Instructor conducts dynamics exercise, instructors
model with the group
Student participation.

20-30 Watch Interstellar clip

30-40 Watch Sherlock clip
Not much dynamic change until the end

 40-50
Watch Psycho clip


50-60
Assess, discuss
How did dynamics and tempo affect your experience of
the lm?
What are your thoughts and reactions?
What worked for you, what didnt?

























ACTIVITY BREAKDOWN:

Time Description