Summative Assessment Expansion
(Pulled from Lesson 9 in Mini-Unit) Each group performs in front of the rest of the class while being videotaped. The rubric will assess the following objectives:
[Note: After school, I will watch each recording and fill out a rubric per student. This grade will be entered in the grade book to show student proficiency of the objectives and standards.]
- Sing with proper breath support (deep, low, and fully expanded).
- Sing with correct focus of tone.
- Perform with unified vowels as an ensemble.
- Sing correct pitches.
- Tune chords instantly as an ensemble.
- Sing with a strong sense of tonal center among the ensemble.
- Sing correct rhythms (notes and rests).
- Perform attacks and releases correctly as an ensemble.
- Sing at the tempos marked in music.
- Sing with correct and language-appropriate pronunciation of consonants and vowels.
- Sing with correct and stylistically appropriate enunciation.
- Perform diphthongs correctly.
- Sing with phrasing that is appropriate to notation and text creating forward moving musical lines with fitting rise and fall.
- Sing with dynamics marked to enhance the expressiveness of the musical phrase.
- Sing with syllabic stress that enhances the phrasing and meaning of the text.
- Perform with a tonal balance among each section of the ensemble.
- Perform with professional stage deportment as an ensemble, including entrance/exit, posture, and attention to conductor.
- Perform with facial expression and physical involvement appropriate to the text and style of the music.
[Note: After school, I will watch each recording and fill out a rubric per student. This grade will be entered in the grade book to show student proficiency of the objectives and standards.]
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