Introduction |
To The Teacher |
How To Use This Book |
Lesson Plans |
Effective Teaching Checklist |
National Standards For Arts Education |
Goals And Overview |
Voice: Posture - Breath - Tone |
Theory: Rhythm - Beat - Note Values (quarter, half, whole) |
Sight-Reading: Pitch Drills |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Five Basic Vowels (ee, eh, ah, oh, oo) |
Theory: Basic Notation (staff, clefs, note names) |
Sight-Reading: Pitch Drills |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Breath Support (diaphragm) |
Theory: Measure - Meter - Barlines |
Sight-Reading: Rhythm Practice - Pitch Practice |
Performance Speech Chorus |
Months of the Year |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Review |
Theory : Review |
Sight-Reading: Rhythm Practice - Pitch Practice |
Performance: Speech Chorus |
Tongue Twister |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Practice (posture, breath, and vowel shape) |
Theory: Pitch - Scale - Key of C Major |
Sight-Reading: Pitch Drills - Combine Rhythm and Pitch |
Performance: Short Songs With Text - Accompanied Song |
Proverbs (unison) |
Follow Me (unison) |
Voice: Practice (posture, breath, and bowel shape) |
Theory: Whole Steps and Half Steps |
Sight-Reading: Whole/Half Step Drill and Excercises |
Performance: Singing In Parts |
Treble |
Tenor Bass |
Mixed |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Practice (posture, breath and vowel shape) |
Theory: Review |
Sight-Reading: Practice (pitch and rhythm) |
Performance: A Cappella Songs |
Treble: Sing Alleluia |
Tenor Bass: Sing Alleluia |
Mixed: Winter |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Practice (posture, breath, vowels) - Articulation |
Theory: Sharps and Flats - Key Of G Major |
Sight-Reading: Pitch Drills - Excercises |
Performance: A Cappella Songs |
Treble: Erin |
Tenor Bass: Shipwrecked |
Mixed: Sing Your Songs |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Practice (posture, breath, vowels, articulation) |
Theory: Accidentals - Key Signature |
Sight-Reading: Pitch Drills - Excercises |
Performance: A Cappella Cannon |
Joyfully Sing (3-Part, any combination) |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: The Breathing Process |
Theory: Rests (quarter, half, whole) |
Sight-Reading: Rhythm Drills with Rests |
Performance: Speech Chorus |
Animal Song (4-part, any combination) |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Review |
Theory: Review |
Sight-Reading: Excercises |
Performance: Accompanied Song |
Rain (unison) |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Vocalization |
Theory: Melodic Intervals |
Sight-Reading: Melodic Interval Practice (C Major, G Major) |
Performance: A Cappella Songs |
Treble: Sing Hosanna |
Tenor Bass: Sing Hosanna |
Mixed: Sing Hosanna |
Goals And Overview |
Voice: Review of Vowels - Additional Vowel Sounds |
Theory: Harmonic Intervals |
Sight-Reading: Practice with Harmonic Intervals |
Performance: Accompanied Song |
Dance! (SA, TB, or SATB) |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Posture - Breath - The Neutral Vowel (upsidown e) |
Theory: Triads - The Tonic Chord |
Sight-Reading: Tonic Chord Practice - "Pickup" Notes |
Performance: Accompanied Songs |
Treble: King William |
Tenor Bass: King William |
Mixed: Hosanna |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Dipthongs |
Theory: Key of F Major - Dotted Half Notes |
Sight-Reading: Chord Drills - Exercises in 3/4 and 4/4 |
Performance: A Cappella Songs |
Treble: Love In Thy Youth |
Tenor Bass: As The Holly Groweth Green |
Mixed: The Call |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Articulation ("t" and "d") |
Theory: Eight Notes and Rests - Beat/Division of Beat |
Sight-Reading: Rhythm Drills |
Performance: Speech Chorus |
Hey Diddle Diddle (2-Part, any combination) |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Review |
Theory: Review |
Sight-Reading: Practice |
Performance: A Cappella Songs |
Treble: Let Us Chase The Squirrel |
Tenor Bass: Leave Her, Johnny |
Mixed: Betty Botter |
Goals and Overview |
Voice: Articulation (singing R) |
Theory: Meter - Downbeat/Secondary Stress |
Sight-Reading: Practice with Changing Meters |
Performance A Cappella Song |
Alleluia (SA, TB, or SATB) |
Goals And Overview |