Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Transfer own texts into musical notation.
Objective: To transfer their own rhythm texts into musical notation. To compose their own eight measure rhythmic composition.
Activity: Students are asked to write their own rhythmic compositions using 4/4 meter, and whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes. Additional activities (optional): Write lyrics. Do art pictures of chant meanings or art depictions of text/beat feeling.
Assessment: Teacher checks to see if proper counts are in each measure.