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Tideo = T sings song, asks critical listening questions, st. learn song through call and response, T adds instruments parts and distributes instruments to st., st. perform song with different instruments, T asks “Do any instrument parts repeat?”, st. decode that instrument parts repeat, T introduces that repeating parts in a song that continue the entire time without changing are called ostinatos

Assessments

1. Can students sing the song and play the instrument parts independently?

2. Are students able to recognize which instrument parts repeat for the entire song?

3. Do students understand that a repeating part that never changes is an ostinato?

Train is a-Comin’ = T sings song, asks critical listening questions, st. learn song through call and response, T adds new vocal parts to the original melody and teaches through call and response, T reviews definition of ostinato, T asks st. “Which part would be an ostinato?”, st. decode

Assessments

1. Can students sing “Train is a-Comin’” independently?

2. Can students sing each of the different parts along with the main melody independently?

3. Can students recognize the ostinato part of all of the sung parts?