Grade 8 Band
Avon Lake City Schools
Curriculum Framework
8TH GRADE CONCERT BAND
Course Overview:
8th Grade Band focuses on continuing content instruction for students from the Grade 7 Band level, engaging students in a wide variety of experiences in musical performance, musical literature, and musical concepts. Exercises in a variety of basic rhythmic notation within a grade level appropriate/intermediate level range of tones in order to develop students’ technique and comprehension of musical concepts commonly used at the middle school level.
Textbook (Title and Publishing Company):
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Method Book: Measures of Success - A Comprehensive Musicianship Band Method, Book 2 by Deborah A. Sheldon, Brian Balmages, Timothy Loest, and Robert Sheldon. Percussion written and edited by David Collier. The FJH Publishing Company, Inc.
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Scale and Rhythm Chunks - Rhythm and Scale-Based Technical Exercises for the Beginning Band Student by Richard Canter. Focus On Music Publication
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Various musical compositions from classical standard band literature to current modern musical compositions
Online/Supplemental Materials:
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Google Classroom
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Flip (formerly FlipGrid)
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MusicRacer.com
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Sightreading Factory
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EdPuzzle
Assessments:
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Quarterly Scale and Rhythm Assessments
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Weekly Playing Check-Ups
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Last Updated:
September, 2023