Choir 6th - 8th Grades

Sudie Choir Program 2022-23

Welcome to the Choral Program of Sudie TAG Academy!  This year's offerings are Vocal Ensemble (7th &  8th grade) and 6th Grade Choir.  Vocal Ensemble teaches show choir techniques such as singing and dancing, facial expression and singing with a microphone.  Songs include pop & jazz standards, show tunes as well as rock and rap.  Our goal is to perform live on and off campus as well as compete in contests.

Vocal Ensemble also is our Honor Choir. Singers study classical singing techniques, and students will be encouraged to sign up for private online voice lessons with Ms. Bell to audition for All City/All Region Choirs and compete in UIL Solo & Ensemble contest.  The entire ensemble will work toward a premiere presentation at UIL Choir & Sight Reading Contest.  Superior ratings in UIL contests will greatly enhance student resumes when applying to special high schools and college.

Please refer to the Choir Handbook page on this website to read specific requirements and student guidelines including required weekly section rehearsals and concert attendance.  

Vocal Ensemble Lessons

August 2022

September 2022

Objectives: Rehearse UIL Solo & Ensemble songs, All Region Choir songs, UIL Choir Concert songs, Show Choir songs; Sing popular songs per decade from the Great American Songbook (7th grade); Teach a piece of music to the class (8th grade); Rehearse musical revue songs; Choreograph song(s)

October 2022

Objectives: Rehearse UIL Solo songs (voice lesson students); Rehearse All City/All Region Choir audition songs; Rehearse concert songs (Halloween/Christmas); Perform Showcase Su-chella Oct. 20-21, 6 p.m. on school stage; Practice stage makeup techniques (skeleton); Show Choir Choice Board research projects; Show business professional interviews

November 2022

Objectives: Rehearse UIL and holiday show songs; Review music literacy

December 2022

Objectives: Rehearse UIL songs for Treble Choir and for Tenor/Bass Choir; Continue weekly section rehearsals after school; Build sight singing skills; Perform show choir songs at Galleria; Perform Holidaze: Singing in the Neighborhood

January 2023

Objectives: Present Winter Choir Concert; Critique concert; Prepare for preliminary UIL Choir contest; All Region Choir auditions for contenders; Review music literacy; Build sight singing skills in sections; Continue weekly sectionals; Perform in All Region Choir concert; Critique All Region Choir concert; Auditions for Footloose musical

February 2023

Objectives: Perform at Pre UIL; Critique performance using UIL Judge's criteria; Build sight singing skills; Continue weekly sectionals; Research Choir history, purpose and positive relation to emotions/brain development and other school subjects; Critique online Middle School Choir performances

March 2023

Objectives: Rehearse UIL songs with pianist; Perform at UIL Choir Concert & Sight Reading Contest; Critique performance using UIL Judge format; Build sight reading skills; Continue research projects; Critique online Middle School Choir performances 

April 2023 

Reinforce music concepts; Piano for the Singer unit continues; Compose accompaniments to songs; Write a jazz song using jazz chord progressions & jazz singing techniques; Research & Perform Latin Jazz songs, Beat Generation jazz songs & songs in odd meters; Review Grease musical songs; Music library cataloguing; 2023 jazz singer profile

May 2023

Reinforce music concepts; Analyze songs/stage performances from Beauty & the Beast Broadway show; perform student arrangement of a patriotic song as a pop/jazz/rap song using online jazz/pop/hip hop beats/loops; Skills test including chromatic scale for Vocal Ensemble II; Karaoke musical songs; Create/Perform a 5-minute street performance about local/state/national or world affairs. 

6th Grade Choir Lessons

August 2022

Objective: Vocal warm ups, sing & dance, sight read; Rehearse All City/All Region songs; Create a thematic playlist

September 2022

Objective: Rehearse UIL Solo & Ensemble songs, UIL Choir Concert songs, musical revue songs, All Region Choir songs; Create thematic playlists; Research & Present ancestral music; Compose intervals; Learn bass clef

October 2022

Objectives: Rehearse UIL Solos (voice students); Rehearse All City/All Region Choir audition songs; Rehearse for Halloween performance; Perform in Su-chella Oct. 20-21 on school stage; Practice stage makeup techniques (skeleton face); Composition; Rehearse winter concert song(s)

November 2022

Objectives: Audition for UIL Solo & Ensemble; Rehearse winter concert songs; Build sight reading skills; Choice Board research project: Music, the Heart of Education; Rehearse fun contest songs; Review music literacy

December 2022

Objectives: Rehearse winter concert/fun contest songs; Present Music, the Heart of Education; Build sight singing skills; Review music literacy; Sing in Holidaze: Singing in the Neighborhood

January 2023

Objectives: Perform in Winter Choir Concert; Critique Choir concert; Critique All Region Choir concert; Presentations; Build sight singing skills; Review music literacy; Rehearse contest/concert music

February 2023

Objectives: Critique Honor Choir at Pre UIL; Rehearse concert/contest music; Piano for the Singer unit (virtual piano); Build sight singing skills and music literacy; Choice Board research project: Music in My Life 

March 2023

Objectives: Rehearse; Critique Honor Choirs at UIL contest; Build sight singing and music literacy skills; Continue Piano for the Singer unit; Present research project Music in My Life

April 2023

Objectives: Piano chords; 4-Chord progression; Songwriting; Review music concepts; Review Grease musical songs; C/C classical and pop singers; Research music genres

May 2023

Objectives: Reinforce music terms; Analyze opera excerpts & note 5 elements of the style; Skills test; Karaoke musical songs; Create/Perform 2-minute street performance related to local/state/national and/or world affairs/news.