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Lesson Plan 3
Grade/Subject: 7 / Orientation
Teacher: Miss McGovern
Date: April 2nd, 2019

OUTCOMES
Lesson Objective

The students will be able to focus and move to rhythm.

GLOs and SLOs]:

GLO 1, 2

SLOs:
Orientation
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 24

ASSESSMENT
Formative:
-Showing of their handshake
-Ensemble marks
-MAS, ADV, PRG, EMG, BEG, LIM

MATERIALS

Teacher Resource Manual DRAMA Junior High School. 1989 Alberta Education ISBN 0-773-0078-9

PEAK OF THE LESSON + ACTIVITES

Peak of the Lesson:
-Make their own handshake with a partner

Activities:
-Introduction
-Walking in a circle
-Step Rhythm
-Move to the music
-Patty cake
-Make a beat in partners
-Show everyone

PROCEDURE (45 min.)

Introduction (5 min.)

As students begin entering the classroom, get them to set their stuff off to one side of the room, and come sit in a circle
in the middle of the room.

If you can hear me clap once, if you can hear me clap twice, if you can hear me raise your hand. Thank you.

Gooooooood afternoon everyone. Please tell me how you are doing in 2 words, starting with ________.

Now what did we learn about last class? (freezing and levels)

Today, we are going to focus on rhythm, and not just to music… *mysteriously

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Body (35 min.)

Walking in a Circle (5 min.)

-Everyone please stand and take 2 small steps back
-Turn to your right
-Begin walking in a circle, try to keep an equal distance between the person in front of you and the person behind you
-FREEZE
-turn to your left
-start walking
-FREEZE
-change direction, and freeze on step 8
-change direction, and freeze on step 10
-CD, freeze step 15
-CD, freeze step 19
-FREEZE

Step Rhythm (3 min.)

-Face the middle of the circle
-Teacher enters the circle to help orchestrate
-Step right, touch with left foot
-Step left, touch with right foot
-Step right, touch
-Left, touch
-Right
-Left
-Keep going, add some groove to it, add the clap into it
-Can also do a step and turn and clap, or forward and back
-FREEZE after a bit

Move to the Music (10 min.)

-Now I am going to play some music, and I would just like you to move around in the way that the music inspires you
to
-That does NOT mean that you MUST dance to it, you can also mime a scene if you think of something that goes with
the music, or do a funny walk to the rhythm of the music, or perhaps I’ll call out some body parts to isolate when
dancing (ex. dance with your hands, arms, shoulders, knees)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlTRcMowLkc Creepy music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5DcGXGHf2A at 14:45 Vintage music
Believer by Imagine Dragons
My House by Flo Rida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0UmrCXxVA Mozart Classical
May We All by Florida Georgia Line (Feat. Tim McGraw)
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by Wham!

Patty Cake (10 min.)

-Awesome, that was fun
-Now, we will make our own rhythms  first, I will teach you a rhythm with an 8 count beat  most rhythms have 8
beat counts
-Everyone find your own space in the room facing me, make sure you can see me
-Slowly do that hands movements with counting from 1-8
-Again slowly
-Think about how all of the even numbers are your hands together
-Slightly faster
-Slightly faster
-Faster
-I will put you in pairs and then I want you guys to see how fast you can get, SPECIFICALLY DOING THIS
PATTERN, NO CHANGING IT RIGHT NOW  count out loud together so that I can hear you
-Will split one group up and put them into groups of 3 for them to figure out how to do the pattern together

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-Show how they did the pattern in groups of 3 to the class

Make a Handshake (7 min.)

-3 min in their original partners to make a handshake
-Each pair will present their handshake to the group

-Sit where you are

Conclusion (5 min.)

How might rhythm help a scene?

-flows better
-can be really cool when actors make their own music
-music can enhance a scene

How might music help a scene?

-brings out the desired mood  ex. sad music in a sad movie scene makes people FEEL teary
-can add humor
-can develop the setting of the scene  ex. the classical music might establish the setting of an opera
ex. the vintage music as in the 50’s with a couple walking their dog
with old fashioned clothes, or in an elevator

Reflection