I decided to create a simple yet fun activity that I think it will help break up the tone of the lesson. This way the lesson is not all notation reading, not all strictly teacher-directed and it allows students to use devices. Knowledge gained from the internet scavenger hunt will be more memorable to the students, than if I had a list of facts on the board and directed the students to read them. The questions are designed to familiarize the student with the composer, the context of the piece and get them thinking about why they should learn this; a good discussion point would be how these things influence our interpretation of the music/score. Here is a link to the ‘Internet Scavenger Hunt’ which I created.
I also found a progressive sight-singing book online which I thought would be a useful tool for small homework assignments and would give me time to write my own in-class sight-singing exercises.
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