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SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Music Education
Lesson Plan Template

Pre-Planning
TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Standards/
anchors/
competencies
PA/Common
Core/Standards
National Music
Standards

DETAILS
Dylan Gourley
General Music
4th
February 3rd, 28 Minutes
9.1.12.A: Know and use the elements and principles of
each art form to create works in the arts and
humanities.
9.1.12.B: Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a
variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to
produce, review and revise original works in the arts.
9.1.12.F: Analyze works of arts influenced by
experiences or historical and cultural events through
production, performance or exhibition.
Singing
Understanding music as it relates to history
Listen, analyze and describe music

Formative
AND/OR
Summative
Assessment
Evidence
Objective
A-B-C-D

Informal Evaluation
The teacher will listen aurally for students making
errors.
The teacher will read the correct answers to the
worksheet with the class.
SWBAT sing verses 1, 2, and 3 of the Star Spangled
Banner with the teacher.
SWBAT complete a worksheet with a small group
describing the history of the Star Spangled Banner.
SWBAT compare the traditional national anthem and
the jazz styled national anthem, specifically naming
rhythm.
Remembering, Analysis, Comprehension
DOK Level 1
DOK Level 2
DOK Level 3

Bloom's Taxonomy
Webb's Depth of
Knowledge (DOK)

CK

Step-by-Step Procedures
RATIONALE for the
Learning Plan
DETAILS
Introduction
Activating Prior Knowledge
The teacher will ask what ritual of patriotism the
students participate in every morning.
Rev. 2013

CK

Explicit
Instructions
Big Ideas
Essential
Questions

Lesson Procedure
Must include
adaptations &
accommodations
for students with
special needs
Accommodations,
Modifications

Rev. 2013

Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
The teacher will ask what ritual of patriotism is
performed at the beginning of most sports events.
Big Idea Statement
The Star Spangled Banner is a historical piece of music
that is important to this country.
Essential Questions
What is the Star Spangled Banner?
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?
What makes the jazz version of the Star Spangled
Banner different from the traditional?
Key Vocabulary
Poem, rhythm, style, jazz
Pre-Assessment of Students
The teacher will ask the students who wrote the Star
Spangled Banner.
Modeling of the Concept
The students will open their books to page 132.
The students will complete a worksheet on the history of
the national anthem.
The teacher will review the correct answers with the
students.
The students will sing the first verse of the Star
Spangled Banner from memory.
The students will open their books to page 134, and read
the last line of the first verse.
The students will explain why Francis Scott Key asked
Oh, say does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave oer
the land of the free and the home of the brave?
The students will sing verses 2 and 3 with a recorded
accompaniment.
Transition
The teacher will show a video of a marching band
playing the national anthem.
The teacher will show a video of Branford Marsalis
performing a jazz version of the national anthem.
Guiding the Practice
The teacher will lead a discussion on what was different
between the two versions.
Providing the Independent Practice
The teacher will describe the aspects of jazz.
Adaptations/Accommodations for Students with Special Needs
Enlarged worksheets can be provided with students for
vision problems.
Seating arrangements can be altered for students with
behavioral disabilities.

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Materials
(reading,
technology,
equipment,
supplies, etc.)
Closure

Other- Specific
instructions for
this lesson plan
Supervising
teacher
comments and
signature
Teacher
Self-reflection
What
worked?
What would
you
change?

Rev. 2013

Worksheets
Grade 4 books
Computer
Projector

Summary & Review of the Learning

The teacher will ask the students 3 things that they
learned during the class.
Homework/Assignments
No assignment