Unit Title

Approximate Unit Length

Standards Addressed in the Unit

Essential Questions for the Unit

Enduring Understandings or Learning Targets for the Unit

Creating an Introduction Video

1 week

ISBE Music Standards

Creating

Responding

Connecting

How do video and audio compliment each other in an artistic way?

Responding Learning Targets:

Evaluate a work or group performance
Self assess individual performance
Know/identify all key signatures
Know/identify solfege
Music vocabulary
Aural Skills

Connecting Learning Targets:

Reflections on group performance
Reflections on individual performance
Connections made through music
- Students identify and explain the roles and impact music play in one’s life and lives of others

Creating Learning Targets:

Compose and/or improvise melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies and accompaniments for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use notation and/or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of simple melodies.
Use standard and/ or iconic notation and/ or audio/video

Elements of music

Original Song #1

2 weeks

ISBE Music Standards

Creating

Responding

Connecting

How is sound organized to make music?

How does the structure of a musical piece create its order and clarity?

How is melody created?

Is there good harmony and bad harmony?

What does harmony add to the music?

Can you have rhythm without beat?

Why does each voice and instrument have its own timbre?

Responding Learning Targets:

Evaluate a work or group performance
Self assess individual performance
Know/identify all key signatures
Know/identify solfege
Music vocabulary
Aural Skills

Connecting Learning Targets:

Reflections on group performance
Reflections on individual performance
Connections made through music
- Students identify and explain the roles and impact music play in one’s life and lives of others

Creating Learning Targets:

Compose and/or improvise melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies and accompaniments for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use notation and/or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of simple melodies.
Use standard and/ or iconic notation and/ or audio/video

Music Appreciation

Original Song #2

3 weeks

ISBE Music Standards

Creating

Responding

Connecting

How is personal preference for music developed?

What determines a style of music?

Is there good music and bad music?

How does music elicit emotion?

Responding Learning Targets:

Evaluate a work or group performance
Self assess individual performance
Know/identify all key signatures
Know/identify solfege
Music vocabulary
Aural Skills

Connecting Learning Targets:

Reflections on group performance
Reflections on individual performance
Connections made through music
- Students identify and explain the roles and impact music play in one’s life and lives of others

Creating Learning Targets:

Compose and/or improvise melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies and accompaniments for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use notation and/or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of simple melodies.
Use standard and/ or iconic notation and/ or audio/video

History and Culture

Original Song #3

3 weeks

ISBE Music Standards

Creating

Responding

Connecting

How does music communicate?

In what ways have people used music to express their values and describe their experiences?

How do music and history influence each other?

What artists do you gather influence from?

How does culture affect music?

How does one musical style influence another?

Responding Learning Targets:

Evaluate a work or group performance
Self assess individual performance
Know/identify all key signatures
Know/identify solfege
Music vocabulary
Aural Skills

Connecting Learning Targets:

Reflections on group performance
Reflections on individual performance
Connections made through music
- Students identify and explain the roles and impact music play in one’s life and lives of others

Creating Learning Targets:

Compose and/or improvise melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies and accompaniments for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use notation and/or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of simple melodies.
Use standard and/ or iconic notation and/ or audio/video

Live Sound Training

1-2 weeks

ISBE Music Standards

Creating

Responding

Connecting

How can you transfer the sound in your head to be heard by others?

How can you make a PA System sound like your “Ipod”

Responding Learning Targets:

Evaluate a work or group performance
Self assess individual performance
Know/identify all key signatures
Know/identify solfege
Music vocabulary
Aural Skills

Connecting Learning Targets:

Reflections on group performance
Reflections on individual performance
Connections made through music
- Students identify and explain the roles and impact music play in one’s life and lives of others

Creating Learning Targets:

Compose and/or improvise melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies and accompaniments for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use notation and/or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of simple melodies.
Use standard and/ or iconic notation and/ or audio/video

Mastering a Multi Song EP/LP

3 weeks

ISBE Music Standards

Creating

Responding

Connecting

Why is music such an integral part of the human experience?

What inspires someone to create a piece of music?

Does a recording/performance have to be public to be meaningful?

What criteria do we use to evaluate a recording/performance?

What makes the recording/performance significant?

How does the style of the music affect the behavior of the listener?

Responding Learning Targets:

Evaluate a work or group performance
Self assess individual performance
Know/identify all key signatures
Know/identify solfege
Music vocabulary
Aural Skills

Connecting Learning Targets:

Reflections on group performance
Reflections on individual performance
Connections made through music
- Students identify and explain the roles and impact music play in one’s life and lives of others

Creating Learning Targets:

Compose and/or improvise melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies and accompaniments for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use notation and/or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of simple melodies.
Use standard and/ or iconic notation and/ or audio/video

Fine Arts Course Descriptions & Curriculum Maps

Fine Arts Appreciation

2D Intro

2D Art & Design

2D Art & Design Advanced

Advanced Placement 2D Art & Design

Advanced Placement Drawing

3D Intro

3D Art & Design

3D Art & Design Advanced

Advanced Placement 3D Art & Design

Digital Photography

Digital Photography Advanced

Beginning Theatre

Studio Theatre

Studio Theatre Advanced

Stagecraft

Stagecraft Advanced

Introduction to Improvisation

Concert Orchestra

Chamber Orchestra

Percussion Ensemble 1

Percussion Ensemble 2

Concert Band

Symphonic Band

Wind Ensemble

Wind Ensemble Advanced

Treble Choir

Concert Choir

Advanced Treble Choir

A Cappella Choir

Music Theory 1

Advanced Placement Music Theory

Music Production

Music Production Advanced