Signing in.... Welcome back!!! Its been a while since my last blog post This blog post will outline the process taken to complete my final senior secondary assignment, which includes creating a unit of work for a Music 2 HSC class, focusing on the topic Music of the last 25 years with an Australian Focus. Along with the unit framework, detailed lesson plans must be provided for at least 6 lessons and resources need to be provided (worksheets, scores, audio recordings, digital resources and more). I began working through this assignment about a month ago and have documented my work regularly as follows: Tuesday 1st of May: Today I began working through the repertoire list, using the template (table) given. Friday 4th of May: Today I listened to a selection of repertoire from numerous composers, to sort out a final list to fit within the table. I decided to focus on a few composers, including Nigel Westlake, Paul Stanhope and Elena Kats-Chernin and choose repertoire surrounding their works. Finalised my repertoire list today. Thursday 10th of May: After ‘Senior secondary’ class on Thursday, Jim checked my finalised repertoire list. I decided on choosing Nigel Westlake’s ‘Babe: Pig in the city’ soundtrack as my focus for the Year 12 Music 2 Unit. Friday 11th of May: Began collating some small classroom activities, surrounding the selected piece by Nigel Westlake and documenting them into a unit framework. Wednesday 16th of May: I emailed Rim Shot music, which is Nigel Westlake’s website, asking for access to the “Babe: Pig in the city” score, however I received the following reply. Worked on gathering resources for the unit of work and although I didn’t have the score for Babe, I gathered scores and videos of other music that showcase similar musical ideas and themes to the ones used in the music soundtrack of Babe: pig in the city. I found that these 4 piece were be adapted by Nigel Westlake to use in Babe:
Thursday the 31st of June: CHANGE OF PLANS I went to see James Humberstone regarding the peer teaching assignment. This is where ideas for my Music 2 unit changed. I felt I was lacking resources with my original idea to make a unit on ‘Babe Pig in the city’ as I didn’t even have a score for this work. James informed me of his art song, ‘The Weight of Light’ song cycle and thought this would be a good opportunity to create a unit of work about. James explained the overall idea of the song cycle, the story line it conveyed and the amount of work and dedication put into this work. This session inspired me to want to create a unit of work on this moving piece of work. We organised to have a meeting to conduct an interview and explanation of the work for the 6th of June (the following week). Wednesday the 6th of June: Today at 2.30pm I had my interview with James, here is a brief overview of how the meeting went. We set up cameras and audio recorders to capture James and I in an interview setting, with James explaining the song cycle in detail. I created this visual recording as a teaching resource for the music classroom as shown in my unit of work. This resource will allow the students to understand the work in more depth told by the composer himself. Some Question I asked in the interview:
Tuesday the 12th of June: Today I worked on listening to excerpts from The weight of light while analysing the score myself to create appropriate activities for a music 2 classroom. *The call *Brother O Brother I will need to create documented resources, including melodic dictations and sight singing excerpts. Wednesday the 13th of June: Today I continued working on my unit of work score and audio analysis: *At the Gate *From here The process I used to conduct and create activities for my unit of work was listening and analysing the song while following the score. When I came by an idea or theme I would pause the song and write the idea down, these ideas would turn into activities to incorporate into the classroom to convey a theme e.g extended techniques in At the gate *Today I also edited the unit of work and finished creating resources in Muse Score (e.g. Melodic dictations and sight singing excerpts) Thursday the 14th of June:
I created another resource today, The melodic writing worksheet (Brother o Brother- Week 2 activity) that focuses on the perfect 5th interval and creating a step wise motion melodic line over it. Some things I focused on today; *Began writing the detailed lesson plans *Edited the overall document *Completed the 6 lesson plans *Edited the first recording of the interview on iMovie, that explains The Weight of Light, its plot line and musical aspects. Friday the 15th of June: Today I completed the table of the four hypothetical HSC music 2 students, their instruments and suggested repertoire. Then created a new resources for the week 7 compositional task, just to better scaffold the task giving the students a model or example to compose based off. Saturday the 16th of June: The assignment is due on the 17th of June, so the last two days will be editing and finalising resources before submission. Until next time!!! Signing out...
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