Map: Music in Our Lives Type: Consensus Grade Level: 9 School Year: 2007-2008

Author: Tom Stickney District/Building: Minisink Valley CSD/High School

Created: 11/21/2007 Last Updated: 03/23/2009

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 Essential Questions
What are the rules that
determine proper music
notation?
How do we count and perform
basic rhythms?
Essential Questions
How do musicians read music
in bass and treble clefs?
Essential Questions
What are the different types of
music and how does culture
affect music?
What musical elements are the
same in every culture.
Essential Questions
What are the methods used to
play guitar?
Essential Questions
Content
Music Notation
Music Counting
Content
Introduction to Treble Clef,
Bass Cleff, Line Note, Space
Note, and note identification.
Content
Introducation and examples of
classical, jazz, hip-hop, rock,
latin, rap and reggae.
Content
Students will learn how to hold
instrument, and different
strumming techniques such as
PIMA and PIMAMI
Content
Skills Assessments Standards/PIs
Students will be assessed
Drawing, internalizing, through written and performed
performing, creating. compositions as evidenced by
rubric.
Rubric
Skills Assessments Standards/PIs
Students will identify notes in
Students will be able to: both clefs with 100% accuracy
on note quiz.
1) Draw notes on a staff.
2) Identify written notes.
3) Understand the relations of
pitch to where notes are
drawn.
Skills Assessments Standards/PIs
1) Students will be able to Students will be able to choose
identify key elements of their own music, present
various types of music. information about this music,
and identify key musical
2) Students will understand the elements associated with
origins of various type of various musical styles.
music.
3) Students will be able to
aurally identify different types
of music.
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Skills Assessments Standards/PIs
1) Guitar Setup Checklist
Students will be able to:
2) Performance Rubric
1) Hold instrument correctly
2) Strum patterns in different
time signatures using PIMA and
PIMAMI with a G chord.
3) Strum with these patterns
along with songs.
Skills Assessments Standards/PIs

Where are the notes located
on the guitar?
Essential Questions
What are chords and how do
you play them?
Essential Questions
What are the classic guitar rock
song and how do you play
them?
Essential Questions
What has happened in the
histroy of Rock and Roll?
Students will learn where
various notes are on the
guitar.
Content
Students will discover chords
and how music is based off of
them.
Content
Students will study and be able
to identfy the most important
rock and roll tunes from the
1940's to the present.
Content
History of Rock and Roll from
1940's to the present
Students will perform a note
1) Students apply the playing test for the class with
knowledge of the difference 100% accuracy.
between strings and frets by
learning the notes for the first
six frets of every string.
2) Students will analyse music
to be played utilized their
knowledge of strings and frets
to be able to perform.
Skills Assessments Standards/PIs
Chord Playing Unit Test on all
Students will understand the required chords
how many half-steps are in
between notes of a chord.
Students will also learn the
fundamentals of playing a
chord. This will include holding
down multiple frets and which
strings to strum for each
chord.
Students will learn how to play
the following chords:
C,G,D,A,E
Skills Assessments Standards/PIs
Students will be able to: Rock and Roll Composition
1) Comprehend the differences Also, students will each
of rock and roll and music perform for the class a chosen
preceeding this type of music. rock and roll song.
2) Name 20 important rock
and roll musicians and why
their contributions were
important to music.
3) Name tand describe the
parts of a rock and roll tune.
Skills Assessments Standards/PIs
History of Rock and Roll Test
Students will be able to: or
1) Comprehend the differences Rock and Roll Biography Essay
of rock and roll and music
preceeding this type of music.
2) Name 20 important rock
and roll musicians and why
their contributions were
important to music.

Essential Questions
What is Musical Theatre and
how does this differ from
Opera?
Essential Questions
What are the classic musicals
and how has musical theatre
changed over the years?
Key to Standards used in this Map
Content
Students will ubnderstand key
factors that make the genre of
musical theatre unique.
Content
Sample Musicals from every
decade from the twenties to
the present
3) Name tand describe the
parts of a rock and roll tune.
Skills Assessments Standards/PIs
Students will define the Music Theatre project, including
following terms: sitzprobe, group theatre composition.
overture, monologue,
entr'acte, company, ensemble,
lead, stage left, stage right,
house.
Students will be able to identify
key musical composers.
Students will be able to identify
why musical theatre is an
American medium.
Skills Assessments Standards/PIs
1) Students will be able to Music Theatre Composition
identify two popular musicals
from every decade from the
1920's to the present.
2) Students will be able to
identify keys characteristics of
musicals from every decade
from the 1920's to the
present.