Van Wyck Junior High School

         7^th Grade General Music

Welcome to general music! In this 10 week course we will be covering a variety of topics including music notation, rhythms, and African percussion instruments. I am looking forward to working with you this quarter.

Class Participation: Your participation in general music accounts for a large part of your grade. Participation will be based on class discussions and other activities such as performing on rhythmic instruments. This ten week course is a performance-based class.

Classwork/Evaluations: We will be learning about music notation, note reading, performing rhythms, and playing multiple part rhythmic patterns. There will be graded worksheets as well as performance grades in this course.

Project: Each student is require to create a music project. It can be a model of an instrument, poster of an artist/group/composer, or a video project. Specific information will be given during the second week of the quarter!

Materials

• (1) 2-pocket folder

• a pencil

Grading: Grading will be based upon the following criteria

Classwork and Evaluations	40 %
Participation/Playing	30 %
Project	15 %
Final Exam	15 %

Please review this information with your child. Sign and return the bottom portion by Thursday Nov. 20^th for a 100% as your first classwork grade. Please feel free to call or e-mail me with any questions or concerns. I look forward to a great quarter!

Sincerely,

Ms. Gscheidle
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