Choir · Week 23 · Musicianship and Rehearsal
Stepping Up and Stepping Back
Students reflect on when to lead their section and when to support it, then practice both roles in rehearsal.
- Students will
- Students identify moments in a piece when a section needs a leader and moments when it needs support, then practice both roles during a short rehearsal segment, attending to balance and entrances.
- SEL skill
- Sense what the section needs and choose to lead or support
- What it looks like
- Students practice social awareness by sensing what the ensemble needs and adjusting their role.
- Content focus
- Leading and supporting within a section
- Format
- Role play
Social awareness
Social awareness is understanding what others need and feel so you can respond with care. More social awareness activities
What you get
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Standards
- MU:Pr5.1.E.HSI: Music, Ensembles, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 5 (Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation), 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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