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🎵 8th Grade · MusicMU:Pr5.1Unit 5: Ensemble performance

Ensemble skills

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🎯 Objective: Students listen across parts and balance.

Lesson outline

  1. Rehearse.
  2. Record.
  3. Refine.
  4. Exit: one fix.

Lesson 1 of 2 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MU:Pr5.1

National Core Arts Standards — General Music (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Rehearse and perform in an ensemble

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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