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Violin Unit 1: Beat/pulse, Basic Notation, Guitar-Style, Pizzicato, Open D, and Open A

Description: 

This unit is aligned with the fourth and fifth pages of Essential Elements 2000 Violin Lesson Book 1.  The lesson is divided between online and classroom activities.  This unit would be appropriate for the beginning violin student.

Learning Targets: 
Students will understand the role of the staff and the measure as used in basic musical notation and will be able to describe and differentiate between quarter notes and quarter rests.
Students will hold the violin “guitar style” and will demonstrate their understanding of pizzicato technique through performance.
Students will understand how “open d” (D4) and “open A” (A4) are notated and will demonstrate their understanding through performance.
Link: 
Violin Unit 1: Google Classroom
https://classroom.google.com/c/ODY1MTgzOTQwOFpa
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File Blended Unit Plan - Violin - Essential Elements p4 and 5.docx28.69 KB
Author: 
robert.harvey
Content Area: 
Elective Subjects
Music
Language: 
English
Resource Type: 
Unit
Licensing: 
Creative Commons Licence
Grade: 
4
5
Tags: 
cohort09-11-17
violin
instrument
music
beat
pulse
music notation
quarter
half
whole
note
pizzicato
guitar-style
open D
open A
Composition

Student prerequisite skills and knowledge

Before engaging with this resource, the student would need to understand the different parts of the violin.

How is the concept or procedure explained or demonstrated?

These concepts are explained through a variety of classroom and online activities, collaborative assignments, and assessments.

What concepts or procedures are being explained or demonstrated in this lesson object?

This resource could be used to facilitate the instruction of basic music notation, inclusive of the concepts of the staff, measures, bar lines, quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes.  This resource also introduces the first two open-string notes that a beginning violinist learns, Open D and Open A, as well as the performance concepts of pizzicato and guitar style.

What was your experience, both successes and challenges, using this lesson object with your students?

I am not currently in a position to utilize this unit, but it is heavily based on a unit that I used to employ with regular success.  For this resource, I incorporated the different online activities to help an instructor further differentiate instruction.