Make Sure You Know : Chamber - When Is Graduation? Is It A Mandatory Performance? YES!

Make sure you know…
 What will you wear to the concert?

 Chorale, Chamber, and Show Choir: When is/our
your competition dates? Are they mandatory?
 How much does your uniform cost?
 Is the choir room a place for ILT?
 What is the Choral Commons?
 What do you do if you have a school conflict with a
concert date?
 What is expected in rehearsal?
 Chamber – When is graduation? Is it a
mandatory performance? YES!
Edmodo Codes
 Chorus: 5kuavu
 Show Choir: 5at2bg
 Chorale: k5ub38
 Chamber Choir: 9if38h
 Piano: myi274
National Standards
 1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied
repertoire of music.
 5. Reading and notating music
 6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
 7. Evaluating music and music performances
 8. Understanding relationships between music,
the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
 9. Understanding music in relation to history and
culture.
Learning Targets
 *I can prepare my voice to sing improving my sound before
rehearsal.
 *I can identify solfege syllables in SS exercises and real music
when given Do.
 *I can sing my music on solfege in a group with pitches in stepwise
progression and skips on the tonic triad ascending.
 *I can sing my part in my music with my section with confidence.
 *I can sing out with others in my section.
 *I can sing my music with accuracy of pitch and rhythm improving
each rehearsal both in school and at home.
 *I can read my music better today than yesterday.
 *I can tell you what I know better today than yesterday.
RB Choirs
 Do Now: Warm-up and Read the Announcements – Download SS examples from website if you
haven’t already.
 SS Mini Lesson: Solfege exercises, skips, rhythms
 SS Grapple: 30 seconds individual study. Now sing it.
 SS Guided Practice: 30 seconds sectional rehearsal with teacher as needed.
 SS Grapple: Now sing it with corrections.
 SS Guided Practice: Last 30 seconds to rehearse for POLISH. Prepare it.
 SS Application: Now sing the whole thing together with corrections utilizing musical and
performance elements.
 SS Debrief: What did we do well? What do we need to work on? What could we have done to
do better this time? Can we do it next time?
 RR Grapple: New Section of Music
 RR Guided Practice: Introduction of Parts per voicing. Sing it with me. Now let’s put it
together.
 RR Application: Your turn to sing it without guidance. Go back and fix it. Solidify. Do it again.
 Debrief: What can you do better today than yesterday?
Announcements
Keep the Room Clean! Don’t leave items behind. Leave no trace!
Website: riverbluffchoir.weebly.com
 Secretaries – Make sure you are filling out those daily minutes….daily
 LEAVE NO TRACE
 Uniform Cost –You can FUNDRAISE IT – Payments are due if paying out of pocket.
 Patronships are in full swing. Bring them in.
 Men – If you needed to “get back with” Mrs. Sarvis on tux stuff, you did not meet the deadline. You
will be responsible for payment of anything that was ordered for you.
 I need an office helper. Let me know if you are interested. Needs to be responsible, in honors classes,
and willing to help with paperwork.  Email me
 Still missing some students’ student information forms. Go to the website
riverbluffchoir.weekbly.com (no www) and do this link!
 Make sure you have joined the Edmodo group
 Make sure you are getting any schedule conflict to me ASAP
 Who are my athletes? What sports? Let me know.
 All-State Chorus Auditions – Music is here. If auditioning, see me.
 Summative Assessments for most choirs begin this week. Study up! Practice Up!
 Download those rehearsal tracks as posted on Edmodo.
 If you are new to choir in the past week, please, make sure you have caught up with….
› The Handbook
› The website
› Edmodo
› Paperwork to turn in
› Student Information Link
Assessment Schedule
 Chorale: Tuesday – Written Solfege
 Chorale: Thursday – Sung Solfege
 Chorus: Monday – Continue Singing Solfege
 Chorus: Next Monday: Part Singing Test
 Show Choir: Thursday Performance Singing Test
 Chamber Choir: Thursday – SS Test/Solfege
Show Choir Announcements
 Need Name
 Need to order accessories.
 Patronships…Haven’t gotten any
 Make sure minutes are taken and recorded
 Sign up for weekly Mods on the schedule
 Make sure to Leave No Trace
 Don’t forget Academic Mods
Policy Review of This Week
Piano: Need permission to play.

Gum: No Gum at all.
Food: No food.
Drinks: Drinks with a top that screws on. No spills.
Restroom: 3 Emergencies to leave class a semester!
Tardies: If you aren’t in your spot, singing by the
first warm-up “Mums you are TARDY. – Tardy
entries need passes either from a teacher or the front
office.
Procedure Review of Last Week
Turning In Money
 Put payment in envelope
 Label envelope
› Name:
› Date:
› Payment is for:
› Amount: $
 Turn into Mrs. Keisler
 Pick up RECEIPT in magnetic folder by the music folder
bins in room.
 Keep receipts – Important! Don’t throw away!
Handbook Review of Last Week
Grades
 Formative
› Daily Rehearsals (Ensemble and Individual)
› ILT Mod Work (Individual)
› Quality of Singing and Content during rehearsals (Ensemble and
Individual)
 Summative
› Singing Benchmark Checks (by section, ensemble, individual)
› Written assessments (solfege ID, music labeling,
definitions/vocabulary, etc…)
› Text/lyric Benchmarks
› CONCERTS – BIGGEST SUMMATIVE GRADES

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