Emoji Moments Music Composition Lesson Plan

Students will compose a piece of music that is inspired by emoji. They will use the emoji as visual cue to generate short 4-bar phrases. They will link the phrases to form a larger piece, name their compositions, practice and perform the composition.
Included: Composition template and emoji graphic organizer for planning the composition.
Objectives
Within 2-4 lessons, students will compose a piece of music based on the emotion suggested by an emoji. In the process the student will:
• Acquire knowledge of music elements: melody, harmony, timbre, rhythm
• Acquire knowledge of performance directions that suggest emotion: tempo, dynamics, and articulation.
• Learn and memorize through practice to write the musical letters on the treble staff
• Learn, review and practice basic note values
• Practice short melodic fragments on a melodic instrument
• Explore basic techniques of extending a composition by linking short 4-bar phrases
• Acquire, review or practice basic staff notation
• Make creative decisions on the overall plan of a composition