Ready-to-teach lesson
Compare and Contrast
Song of Middle C - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Collect the ways she plays a single note and say what each comparison tells a listener.
PRODUCT
Rows for each way she plays the note, with a box for what it would sound like Essential question:
How do you describe a sound by naming something that is not a sound?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book The page copied
- Passage 8 - the girl at a grand piano, an audience behind her
- A keyboard or a chime if there is one
- Passage 9 - the girl at the piano with a raincloud over it
- Prepared passages: Passage 8, Passage 9
Lesson sequence
1 Why only one note - 4 min
- Focus:
- A note played instead of a piece
- Teacher model:
- Read what has just happened and then this page.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8, Passage 9 2 Fill the rows - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what each way of playing it would sound like.
- Expected answer:
- Thunder loud and sudden, wind quiet and held, a question rising at the end.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 9 3 The odd one out - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Say which comparison is not a sound.
- Expected answer:
- A question - it asks her to play the note the way a question is spoken.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 9
Support & extension
Above: Say which of the comparisons is doing something different from the others, and what.
Below: Name two ways she plays the note and say which would be louder.
Assessment
- Gives all three comparisons
- Describes what at least two would sound like
- Notices one comparison is not a sound
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