Meet and Greet on the Beat "Start-of-the-school-year Introductions"

Music Composition Lesson Plan
Students will compose music using a basic steady beat and introduce chanting/rapping speech rhythms to the beat. After the initial improvisatory phase, students will notate the rhythms they chanted to the beat. In the process the students will:
• Introduce themselves at the start of the school year
• Learn about steady beat, pulse, meter, metronome
• Learn about chanting/rapping speech patterns to a rhythm
• Learn about rhythm and basic note values
• Distinguish between beat and rhythm
• Improvise rhythm patterns using self-generated lyrics
• Compose rhythm patterns using self-generated lyrics
• Explore basic techniques of extending a composition
• Acquire, review or practice basic theory knowledge
• Perform to a steady beat (provided by a metronome or backtrack)