Teaching Method For Sixth 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 Sixth 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 Sixth Grade assessments.
The installment in the My Music Journal, designed for Sixth Grade students, will expand on the material learned in all previous textbooks to continue the students’ musical education throughout grade six. The material in this textbook will continue where the Fifth Grade installment ends and will continue to teach new material based on the students’ previous music education up to that point, providing a solid foundation of knowledge to prepare middle school students for the next phases of their music education and achievements. Students will develop knowledge and skills related to the elements of music, the principles of performance, the connection of music to history and culture, and music’s many interdisciplinary connections.
Students will expand upon their previously learned knowledge of time signatures, meters, and mixed meters in this textbook. Students will continue to study triplets, tied notes, dotted rhythms, syncopation. Students will learn to recognize diatonic intervals when reading music and identify notes written on the treble staff and the bass staff. Students will learn to recognize the repeated tones, leaps, and steps in a listening selection and a score. Students will continue to learn to perform a musical selection, solo or with a group, in the appropriate tempo markings like andante, moderato, allegro, presto, ritardando, accelerando. Students will explore various classroom instruments in this course, including recorder, guitar, and electric keyboard.
Students will learn to describe the dynamics in a listening selection using the correct musical language. The concepts of harmony and tone will be expanded upon with students engaging in topics such as thick and thin textures, unison and harmony, new vocabulary like ostinato, partner songs, descants, counter-melodies, and rounds and various chord patterns. Finally, students will continue their education of different musical styles, engaging in various musical pieces from different cultures and periods and comparing and contrasting these different types of music. Students will listen to the music of various styles, historical periods, and cultures and discuss how elements and expressive qualities determine the style of the music.