Choir · Week 18 · Music, Culture, and Celebration
Semester Reflection
Students reflect in writing on how their voice, confidence, and place in the ensemble have changed this semester.
- Students will
- Students describe growth in tone, accuracy, and ensemble skills over the semester using evidence from a rehearsal or recording and set one goal for the next term.
- SEL skill
- Name a personal strength and support it with specific evidence
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by naming strengths and growth with specific evidence.
- Content focus
- Semester reflection on voice, confidence, and ensemble belonging
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is knowing your own strengths, feelings, and values, and noticing how they affect what you 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:Re9.1.E.HSI: Music, Ensembles, Responding, Anchor Standard 9 (Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Connecting
- 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.
- Composing a Feeling Self-awarenessStudents improvise and compose a short melody that expresses a chosen emotion.
- 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.