Teaching Method For Seventh Grade
Our music curriculum for elementary and middle school students complies with state and national standards, and it has been adopted in many states across the United States. The music textbook for Seventh Grade is both a teacher and student edition. Both the teacher and the student use the same textbook. The teacher receives a curriculum outline and approximately 150 questions for Seventh Grade assessments.
The installment in the My Music Journal, designed for Seventh Grade students, will expand on the material learned in all previous textbooks to continue the students’ musical education throughout grade seven. Through listening, singing, playing instruments, performing rhythms, responding to music with movement, composing, and improvising, students in seventh grade gain a deeper understanding of the elements of music. As students read and write increasingly complicated music notation, they continue their exploration of music theory. Students exhibit knowledge of the connections between music and history, culture, technology, and other knowledge domains through musical experiences.
Students will identify melodic patterns containing steps, skips, and leaps when reading music will read and notate rhythmic patterns that include sixteenth notes, dotted notes, and corresponding rests. This textbook will teach students a wider array of melodic information, including sharps, flats, and naturals. The terms largo, adagio, andante, moderato, allegro, presto, accelerando, and ritardando will also be explored in this textbook. In the seventh grade, students continue to learn and identify differences in voice ranges and timbre: soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass. Students will identify and describe the cultures, musical styles, composers, and historical periods associated with the studied music literature.