Music Curriculum
3rd Grade
Course Purpose: |
Students will engage in the practice and preparation of music, with guidance, on the recorder and master more complicated folk and cultural dances. |
Outcomes and Components:
FA.3M.5 | Students will discuss ways music can tell a story, perform extended dynamics and perform and conduct in duple meter (simple and compound), through the analysis of a standard orchestral work. | ||
Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
Standard(s) |
FA.3M.5.1 | Listen to and analyze a standard orchestral work (e.g. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) that tells a story, focusing on changes and patterns in tempo, texture, and dynamic. | MU:Pr4.2.3a | |
FA.3M.5.2 | Present an interpretation of the work, using the music as a guide. | MU:Pr4.2.3a | |
FA.3M.5.3 | Compare various versions of the story upon which the work is based. | VA:Pr6.1.3a | |
FA.3M.5.4 | Identify and demonstrate (through a standard duple meter conducting pattern) dynamic shifts in the music and debate their purpose. | MU:Pr4.2.3a | |
FA.3M.5.5 | Create personal interpretation of the story told by the music, either in digital or physical form. | VA:Cn11.1.3a |
Academic Vocabulary: Play, Create, Identify, Demonstrate, Describe |
Content Vocabulary: Tempo, Dynamic, Rhythm, Meter |