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Beethoven's Thoughts

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

Beethoven's Thoughts

URL:

http://www.keepingscore.org/sites/default/files/lessonplans/KSEd_Beethoven_s_Thoughts_Matic.pdf

Content Source:

Other
San Francisco Symphony

Type:

Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students will listen to Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony and write a descriptive essay about how the music influenced them. They will create watercolor artwork while listening to the music.

Content Standard(s):

English Language Arts ELA2015 (2015) Grade: 3	24 ) Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. [W.3.3] a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator, characters, or both; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. [W.3.3a] b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations. [W.3.3b] c. Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order. [W.3.3c] d. Provide a sense of closure. [W.3.3d] Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards AAS Standard: ELA.AAS.3.24- Compose narrative texts by introducing characters or a narrator, organizing events in sequence, and providing an ending related to the event sequence.
English Language Arts ELA2015 (2015) Grade: 4	24 ) Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. [W.4.3] a. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator, characters, or both; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. [W.4.3a] b. Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. [W.4.3b] c. Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events. [W.4.3c] d. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely. [W.4.3d] e. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events. [W.4.3e] Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards AAS Standard: ELA.AAS.4.24- Compose narrative texts by introducing characters or a narrator, organizing events in sequence, and providing an ending related to the event sequence.
English Language Arts ELA2015 (2015) Grade: 5	24 ) Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. [W.5.3] a. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator, characters, or both; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. [W.5.3a] b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. [W.5.3b] c. Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events. [W.5.3c] d. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely. [W.5.3d] e. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events. [W.5.3e] Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards AAS Standard: ELA.AAS.5.24- Compose narrative texts by introducing characters or a narrator, organizing events in sequence and providing an ending related to the event sequence.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 3 Music: General	16) Demonstrate and describe how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Process Components: Select Essential Questions: EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes. EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Bar lines Measures Melody Pitch set: Low So, Low La, High Do Treble clef reading (Mi, Re, Do) Middle C to high G Ledger lines Harmony Partner songs Rounds Ostinati Form Theme and variations Coda D.S. al coda Repeat sign Fermata Expression Phrase/ phrasing Pianissimo (pp), fortissimo (ff) Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Orchestral instruments: 4 families Age-appropriate pitch matching (Bb3 - Eb5) Skill Examples: Performing Using movement, manipulatives, or visual representation, demonstrate and describe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music (such as different sections, selected orchestral, band, folk, or ethnic instruments). Creating Express melodic contour through movement. Reading/ Writing When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and/or melodic phrases with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments, using iconic or standard notation. Develop criteria and use them to critique their own performances and the performances of others. Responding/ Evaluating Identify and respond to simple music forms (e.g., AB, ABA). Identify elements of music using appropriate vocabulary.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 4 Music: General	16) Demonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Process Components: Select Essential Questions: EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes. EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Conducting patterns in Syncopation Melody Pitch set: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, Ti Treble clef reading (La, So, Mi, Re, Do) Middle C through High B Create melodic sequences Half-step Whole step Harmony Canons Chord components Chord progression (I, V) Crossover bordun Form Phrasing: antecedent and consequent D.C. al coda Fine Expression pp through ff Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Orchestra instruments within the 4 families Age-appropriate pitch matching (A3-E5) Skill Examples: Performing Demonstrate and explain how specific music concepts (such as form, timbre, etc.) are used to support a specific purpose in music (such as social and cultural contexts) through various means (such as manipulatives, movement, and/or pictorial representation). Creating Develop criteria and use them to critique their own performances and the performances of others. Reading/ Writing Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, citing evidence from the elements of music. When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and/or melodic phrases with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments, using iconic or standard notation. Responding/ Evaluating Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of music applied to a listening example using teacher-given vocabulary (such as different sections of complex forms, teacher-selected orchestral instruments, etc.). Explain how the elements and subject matter of music connect with disciplines outside the arts.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 5 Music: General	16) Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work. Process Components: Select Essential Questions: EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes. EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience? Concepts & Vocabulary: Rhythm Melody Pitch set: Do-centered diatonic Treble clef reading (choral octavos) Grand staff Bass clef Accidentals Major scale Harmony Part singing/ playing Chord progression (I, IV, V) Arpeggio Descant Level bordun Form Rondo form 12-Bar blues Expression Vibrato Tremolo Reggae Blues Timbre: soprano, alto, tenor, bass Other Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette Age-appropriate pitch matching (Ab3-F5) Skill Examples: Performing Analyze the formal structure of music that is to be performed. Identify elements of music to be performed for a specific context (for example, dynamic markings that are appropriate for a lullaby). Creating Choose a literary work, such as a poem or story, to generate musical ideas for performance. Reading/ Writing Examine performance music for expressive elements, and use correct notation to indicate placement. Responding/ Evaluating Justify personal preferences for certain musical pieces, performance, composers and musical genres both orally and in writing. Discuss contributions of musical elements to aesthetic qualities in performances of self and others. Consider and articulate the influence of technology on music careers. Develop and apply criteria for critiquing more complex performances of live and recorded music.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 3 Visual Arts	2) Demonstrate skills using available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process. Examples: Choose from a variety of resources and materials to create a work of art. Use books Imagine That by Joyce Raymond or Dinner at Magritte's by Michael Garland. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make Essential Questions: EU: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals. EQ: How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations? Concepts & Vocabulary: Creativity Criteria Critique Design Media Mixed media Monochromatic Principles of design Rhythm Technology Visual image Skill Examples: Use a variety of materials to create a three-dimensional mask showing a student's personality. Use torn paper scraps to create rhythm in a landscape. Plan a community/city; then, build a model of it with recyclable materials, such as cardboard, boxes, containers, and tubes. Collaborate with a group to demonstrate how to care for tools used in class (such as paintbrushes). After looking at Vincent van Gogh's painting, Bedroom, create a narrative painting depicting a memory of a student's personal bedroom. Use appropriate visual art vocabulary during the art-making process of two-and-three-dimensional artworks. Collaborate with others to create a work of art that addresses an interdisciplinary theme. Read and explore books like Imagine That by Joyce Raimondo or Dinner at Magritte's by Michael Garland and then create a Surrealistic style artwork. Recognize and identify choices that give meaning to a personal work of art. Create a drawing using monochromatic colors (paint, oil pastels, etc.). Explore individual creativity using a variety of media. Understand what effects different media can have in a work of art.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 4 Visual Arts	3) Generate ideas and employ a variety of strategies and techniques to create a work of art/design. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make Essential Questions: EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches. EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error? Concepts & Vocabulary: Constructed environment Cultural traditions Digital format Engagement Tertiary color Preservation Proportion Principles of design Unity Shade Style Tints & shades Skill Examples: Create a list of multiple ideas, sketches, or thumbnail-sketches before beginning the final version of an artwork. Identify, select, and vary art materials, tools and processes to achieve desired results in their artwork. Brainstorm (alone or with others) potential art styles for a given piece of art, such as Monet's Water Lilies. Create an artwork from direct observation (still-life, self-portrait, figure drawing, etc.). Design a two-dimensional drawings of a futuristic art room, town, or planet Use wood, found objects, wire, paper, or clay-based materials to construct a three-dimensional form. Locate business logos in the community and explore the visual arts skills and materials that were used to create these works. Engage in group critiques of one's work and the work of others. Experiment with art materials by using them in unusual and creative ways to express ideas and convey meaning. Use and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others. Mix equal parts of a primary and a secondary color located beside each other on the color wheel to create a tertiary color. Use the design principles of repetition and alignment to add visual unity to an artwork. Create a painting using a monochromatic color scheme by using one color (red) adding white to create a tint (a lighter value--pink) and adding black to the color (red) to create a shade (darker value).
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 5 Visual Arts	3) Communicate personal ideas, images, and themes through artistic choices of media, technique, and subject matter. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make Essential Questions: EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches. EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error? Concepts & Vocabulary: Cultural context Formal & conceptual vocabulary Genre Linear perspective Preserve Principles of design Movement Emphasis Relief Vanishing point Skill Examples: Use a variety of materials (wood, found objects, wire, paper, clay, etc.) to construct a three-dimensional work of art. Have students keep journals to reflect on and combine ideas for their works of art. Draw a still life of students' favorite objects, while adding color with a variety of media (paint, pastels, collage, etc.). Draw an object or other images (landscapes, hallways, etc.) in linear one-point perspective. Create tessellations in connection with interdisciplinary subjects such as mathematics. Write a short story and illustrate the story with original drawings. Draw and transform two-dimensional shapes into three-dimensional forms. (squares to cubes, circles to spheres, triangles to pyramids and cones) Write a personal artist statement to accompany an original work of art. Draw a landscape including foreground, middle ground, and background. Create an artwork integrating observational and technical skills to solve a problem or address contemporary social issues. Create a bas-relief by carving into a clay slab.