Singing

·     Posture

·     Pitch accuracy

·     Projection

·     Energy

·     Breathing

·     Listening

Assessments–performances

Guitar

·     Playing lead /melody

·     Playing chordal accompaniments for singing

·     Composing

Assessments–performance quizzes and tests

Music History

·     Early, Christian, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods

·     Characteristics of music in these periods

·     Singing and dancing

·     Vocabulary

·     Related history

Assessments–class work, performances and tests

Program Music

·     Famous composers and compositions

·     Communicating using music terminology

·     Compositional techniques and imagery in music

Assessments–class work and tests

Musical Theatre

·     Musicals and components of musical theatre

·     Performing scenes from a musical

·     Project –create an informative and artistic project that reflectsinterest in a musical or musical theatre topic