Choir · Week 16 · Music, Culture, and Celebration
Composing a Feeling
Students improvise and compose a short melody that expresses a chosen emotion.
- Students will
- Students improvise and notate a four measure melody in a given key and meter, choosing pitch contour, rhythm, and dynamics to express a chosen emotion.
- SEL skill
- Name an emotion and use it to guide creative choices
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by matching musical choices to an emotion they name.
- Content focus
- Composing a short melody that expresses a feeling
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is recognizing your own emotions and how they influence what you think and do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- MU:Cr1.1.E.HSI: Music, Ensembles, Creating, Anchor Standard 1 (Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Creating
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-awareness activities for Choir
- My Voice, My Story Self-awarenessStudents share a song that matters to them and name the feelings singing brings up, from joy to nervousness.
- Music and Emotion Self-awarenessStudents listen to a choral work, name the emotions it stirs, and point to the musical elements that create them.
- Semester Reflection Self-awarenessStudents reflect in writing on how their voice, confidence, and place in the ensemble have changed this semester.
- Expressive Choices Self-awarenessStudents interpret the text of a choral piece and decide on dynamics and phrasing that express its meaning.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.