Choir · Week 32 · Concert and Reflection
Connecting With the Audience
Students practice facial expression and storytelling so the audience can feel the meaning of the music.
- Students will
- Students use facial expression and storytelling to help an audience feel the meaning of a piece and adjust their delivery to what the audience may feel.
- SEL skill
- Read the feelings of listeners and adjust your performance to connect with them
- What it looks like
- Students practice social awareness by imagining how listeners feel and adjusting their performance to meet them.
- Content focus
- Connecting With the Audience
- Format
- Role play
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding how other people see things and caring about them, including people from different backgrounds. More social 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:Pr6.1.E.HSI: Music, Ensembles, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 6 (Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Performing, Presenting, or Producing
- Level: High School Proficient
More social awareness activities for Choir
- Listening for Blend Social awarenessSections listen for blend and balance and adjust their volume so no single voice sticks out.
- Tuning to Each Other Social awarenessStudents sing chords and adjust pitch by listening to their neighbors, connecting musical tuning to tuning in to people.
- Songs of Remembrance Social awarenessStudents explore songs that cultures use to remember loved ones and share respectful reflections on a remembrance tradition.
- Music for Día de los Muertos Social awarenessStudents learn the context of a traditional Mexican song connected to Día de los Muertos and perform it with understanding and respect.
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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.