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.
Students "perform" and compare their creations.
Objective: To evaluate student "compositions" and express preferences.
Activity: Teacher projects student "compositions" on overhead projector screen. Class performs by singing with tonal syllables. Teacher encourages comparisons based on balance, form, and cadential effects.
Assessment: Student ability to read tonal patterns and understand the system of tonal notation.