6th Grade PLC

Hi All!

Welcome to our band rehearsal. There is a LOT to do, and only 75 minutes to do it all, so we are going to have to purposeful and stay on track to get it all done. Today we are working on all three of our pieces, and we are going to be doing EVERYTHING with student conductors which should be a great deal of fun. I will be playing with various sections of the band today to help you out. We are going to be using a lot of thumbs up / thumbs down so I know where to go inside the rehearsal to help folks out. We are also going to be working with our 4 point rating scale.

I know it is tricky to try an play a full band arrangement from "scratch" so we are going to use a variety of techniques to help you understand "how it sounds" as we progress through these songs! These may help us. They are videos of a middle school band playing Pink Panther, Antiquitus, and a professional recording of A Little Mozart Suite! We will be using this especially to help us practice at home.

Pink Panther:

Antiquitus

A Little Mozart Suite:

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Lesson Plan
1) PACK and Band!
    a) Quick review of our norms
    b) REALLY important: is there anything you need now to be successful? Anything getting in the         way of your learning? Please let me know.

2) Volunteer Student Conductors

3) Warm Up Time! We are going to warm up with songs from the red book. This will also serve as a a quick review of last year's learning.
     1) Red book #s 16, #24 (two parts), #39, #51, #63, #81, #88,#131

4) Listen to our pieces. While you are listening Mr. Akter will hand out music to those who do not have it.

5) New Student Conductor: Warm up by running Mozart Suite

6) Thumbs assessment for each section. Mr. Akter reinforces.

7) Direct Instruction and pre-assessment on "Pink Panther"

6) Student Conductor on "Pink Panther."

7) Thumbs assessment for each section "Pink Panther." Mr. Akter reinforces.

8) Post assessment on Pink Panther: Was there growth? If yes, why? If not why not? Discussion of what we will do with it next rehearsal.

9) Direct instruction and pre assessment on "Antiquitus"

10) Student conductor on "Antiquitus"

11) Thumbs assessment on Antiquitus. Mr. Akter reinforces.

12) post assessement on Antiquitus.

13) Exit ticket! email Mr. Akter