Full scheme of work to teach Country and Western Music using The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Can be taught on recorders, keyboards, percussion
1. 9-1 descriptors for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly assessment
2. Student work booklet including 4 listening activities/assessments - Rodeo, Ring of Fire, Magnificent 7 theme and Take Me Home with You Tube listening links
Starter activities
Information page,
3. Full Power point presentation for the topic
4. Country and Western Music wordsearch
5. Sibelius notated version of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Introduction to Ragtime.
Key facts and information on the style and key composers.
Listening tasks, link to an on line video and a quiz to finish.
Full hour lesson
Structure, Instruments, Harmony and Melody
Plus
Breakdown of the structure of the song clearly identifying each section and the musical features of each section.
Full PLCs covering all four AOS in the Eduqas GCSE Music specification.
This excel document also gives you a ‘student view’ sheet to print off and give to students
Excellent tool for AfL and for you and students to see gaps in learning.
Uses b's so a slightly more challenging performance activity
Ideal for a group to use to create an arrangement of their own version of the song or for less able to groups to follow as a performance
Colour coded and clearly presented, the Blooms questions for cutting, laminating and putting on your wall as both a teacher resource and a students resource. I find these particularly helpful to stretch and challenge students and allow them to gain a greater depth of understanding.
Develops knowledge and skills on hooks and riffs and performance techniques
Can perform as written or create their own arrangement of the piece
Differentiated worksheet for students
Perform as a solo/pairs/groups
A cut out and stick activity for students to do whilst listening to All Blues.
Develops knowledge on the structure and instruments.
Students should label each box with the appropriate section heading and then stick the instruments that are playing in to each section.
The grid should be enlarged to A3 so there is enough room to stick the appropriate instruments in to each box. This task can then be extended to include the harmony and key signature for each section
Instrument recognition quiz - ideal for KS3
Instruments of the orchestra
You tube video - has pictures of each instrument as the video plays which you can show to students. To make it harder just lay the video sound.
10 instruments in total