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Grade 7 Arts Education – Place: Works of art that express ideas about the importance of place (e.g., relationships to the land, local geology, region, rural/urban environments). Major Project(s): Puppets, Case of the Missing Rock Star? Music Starter Unit (8-10 lessons) Lesson Topic Audio/Video Hook(s) Arts Education Aims Curricular Outcomes Terminology The Big Questions & Learning Concepts Project or Assignment Assessment What Is Music? Show a clip of 4’33” by John Cage (this is called Chance music) Critical Responsive Cultural Historic CR7.1 Respond to professional dance, drama, music, and visual art works using analysis, personal interpretation, and research. Programmatic Music -Use media to demonstrate a variety of perspectives on what is music -What is a musician, a composer? What do we hear? -How is music used in marketing? -How does music tell a story? Reflective Writing: Debate – What do you believe music is? Incorporate movement Research – Find an audio sample which could be debated as music or not music Observations Inventing Instruments The Recycled Orchestra First Nations Musical Instruments Creative Productive CP.7.9 Use traditional and/ or homemade instruments to investigate relationships between musical expression and place (e.g., world music, African and Latin drumming, Indonesian gamelan, North American First Nations’ flutes, Caribbean steel bands, urban street culture). Timbre Texture -Invent instruments using recycled and found objects -Connect to Mathematical factors that influence quality and type of sounds Compose & Record Exploring Rhythms – Call & Response Leon Nelson – Significance of the Drum Creative Productive Critical Responsive CP7.7 Investigate improvisation using the voice, instruments, and a wide variety of sound sources from the natural and constructed environment. CP.7.9 Use traditional and/ or homemade instruments to investigate relationships between musical expression and place (e.g., world music, African and Latin drumming, Tempo Dynamics Rests Rest Rhythm Beat -Echo short rhythms back to the teacher -Students become callers -Add variation through changing tempos and dynamics -How does silence add to interest to music? -Introduce Latin and African rhythms Reflective writing: What is the significance of the Drum? Assessment