Year 8 – Rock Music Unit – Term 1

Students learn about musical concepts Students learn to: MUSICAL CONCEPTS:
SYLLABUS
through: OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT TASKS RESOURCES
• recognising
4.3 performs music
the usedemonstrating solo
of musical concepts • perform music through dinging, playing
PERFORMANCE • A steady
Title pagebeat
andatKWL
various tempi [D]
overhead.
and/or ensemble
in various awareness
repertoire characteristic of • Love
and moving to a range
Me Tender melodyofon
repertoire
keyboards • Quadruple
Music theory worksheets. and the use
time signatures
4.5the
notates
topicscompositions
studied using traditional • or ukuleles
organise musical ideas into simple • of the backbeat
Assessment [D] and task
schedule
and/or non-traditional
• creating notation both
simple compositions compositions both individually and in • Pitch direction and contour [P]
descriptions.
4.7individually
demonstrates an understanding
and in groups of COMPOSITION
groups • Major
Tab harmony,
sheets chords
for Love Me I,Tender
IV andonV [P]
musical concepts
• notating through using
compositions listening,
various • Rock
listen riff composition
to and task of
analyse a range • Ukulele.
Simple melodies and melodic patterns
observing, responding, discriminating,
forms of tradition and non-traditional repertoire • [P]
Keyboards and ukuleles.
analysing,
notationdiscussing and recording LISTENING
• respond to a range of repertoire used for • Combination of voices and instruments
CDs
musical ideas to and discussing the
• responding • In class listening activities - informal
listening • [TC] in Hawaii DVD
Elvis
4.8varying
demonstrates an understanding
repertoire of in
used in class and • Smoke on the Water questions • Variety
DVD forofbeginning
sound production [TC]
of Rock music
musical concepts through
the world of music aural
identification and discussion of the • Roles
Schoolofofinstruments and voices [T]
Rock soundtrack
features of a range of repertoire • Riffs,Final
The verse/chorus,
Countdown repetition
CD andand
music
4.9 demonstrates musical literacy through • contrast [S]
Yellow Submarine CD
the use of notation, terminology, and the • Composition assessment task outline
reading and interpreting f scores used in • Performance assessment sheets
the music selected for study
4.10 identifies the use of technology in the
music selected for study, appropriate to the
musical context