General Music

Unit Lesson #3

Rationale:
General music comes in many forms and styles. Students should learn this because
it is because of world music that music is changing every day. Learning about
general music will allow them to possibly form their own style of music.
Objectives:

After participating in the activities and completing the lesson, the students will be
able to perform beginning guitar with 80% accuracy.

Standards:

7.1.1 Sing independently and in ensembles maintaining good breath control, pitch,
diction, tone quality, and posture.
7.2.1 Play melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns by rote and by reading.
7.3.1 Sing or play call and response conversations led by teacher or students

Strategies/Activities:

Before reading Strategy

o This will allow the student to understand what the reading is about. The
activity we will be using guided imagery. This will allow students to use a
visual aid when it comes to guitar
o Steps
Have students close their eyes
Tell them to imagine they are in front of family and friends
Have them imagine they are playing their favorite song on guitar and
have them move their hands in what every way they want
Vocabulary Strategy
o This will allow students to understand any or all confusing words in this
chapter. We are going to use concept circles. This will allow for the
students to study words critically
o Steps
Separate class into groups
Give them n umber of sheets that have different sections for
different words.

Have them shade in all the areas that goes with the word presented
on page
Have groups show their answers when they are done
Comprehension Strategy
o In this section we will be doing making and checking predictions This will
help the students to make predictions about how the proper way of holding
the guitar is explained in the chapter and how that relates to how they will
play it on the guitar
o Steps
Have a guitar in hand
Ask students to make predictions to what I am doing
See if they work/ do not work
Make any changes to see if it will improve my playing style
Writing Strategy
o We will use double entry journals for this section of the unit. This will allow
the students to record their feelings and emotions to the text.
o Step
Introduce double entry journals to class
Allow the students to be honest about their feelings to the text.
Once they have written the first one they will also write another one
to see if they feel the same after the first journal
After Reading Strategy
o For this section we will be using group investigation. This will be used in
large groups. Which will allow us to end the first section on guitar
o Steps
Divide class into groups
Allow groups to discuss with fellow classmates their feelings and
what they thought about the lesson to date
Have the groups share with other groups what they talked about.

Citation:

Vacca, R. T., Vacca, J. L., & Mraz, M. (2011). Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning
Across the Curriculum (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.