7th Grade PLC

Hello 7th Grade Band!

Our Winter Concert is fast approaching! It will be held January 22nd. We are definitely doing a good job preparing. Please remember to practice at home!

Today we will have band during PLC, and this is our final rehearsal before our concert.

You will come in to band hearing a recording of "A Holiday Swing Along."

The check in procedure is always the same. You will enter the room with a recording of the piece we are working on today playing in the background. Quietly take out your instruments, and take your seats. By this time, everyone should have received a copy of "A Holiday Swing Along," "Variations," and "Pirates." Please remember your music!

Direct Instruction: We will play through A Holiday Swing Along. This is the piece that needs the most work of the three. However, it is very close to being "concert ready." We will then do a recorded assessment and discuss what we feel needs work.

Student Conductors (we perform a section). I brought my saxophone today, and will be playing with all sections while we work with student conductors.

Assess: discuss what needs improvement.

Student conductors: (we will re-perform a section)

Re-assess.

Move on to next section if we are able. If not, I will intervene with direct instruction, sectionals, or modeling

Once we can run through A Holiday Swing Along successfully we will move on to "Pirates" and "Linus and Lucy." We will follow a similar rehearsal protocol to that above.

Closure: First we will "run the concert" with a performance of all three pieces as if we were on stage. Next, we will discuss the concert notice, and polo shirt orders for the last time.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Mr. A