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Please note that leftover handouts are placed in the appropriate bin at the back of the classroom. Please check your class bin regularly if you've been absent.

__Week One__:

A course outline will be sent home - with the bottom section to be completed and returned as soon as possible. Intro poster/title page: What do you already know about music? What do you want to learn? Elements of Music: What do melody, harmony, tone colour, tempo, dynamics, form and rhythm mean? The Keyboard: Key names, sharps/flats/naturals, electronic keyboard features First keyboard songs: Warm-up, chords, one-handed songs.

__Unit Two__:

Music notation: notes, rests, clefs, staff, bar line, double bar line. Keyboard: Warm-up with a chord, 2-handed songs

__Unit Three__:

Instruments and families of instruments. __Unit Four__:

Music through time. Includes study of music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century. A link to this project is: 9musicproject.wikispaces.com

__Unit Five__:

Rhythm, tempo and dynamics. Includes textbook work and a video. Students will get into small groups and prepare and present a simple STOMP activity at the end of this section.

Key vocabulary: Italian tempo terms and dynamics terms, meter, syncopation, improvisation,

__Unit Six__: Music around the world. Includes text work and learning a 2-handed song (usually "Mexican Hat Dance").

__Unit Seven__:

Canadian recording industry. Includes a video (watch/answer questions) and an individual student project.