College and Career Ready
Students who perform and learn music are practicing to be College and Career Ready!
College and Career Readiness for Reading
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Obama Music students MUST read their music closely to be able to play their instrument successfully with their peers. The music is the text which contains information regarding duration (how long to play), volume (how loud of soft to play), and pitch (high or low sounds). Reading their text explicitly, students must logically combine all concepts of music (duration, volume, and pitch) to perform music correctly.
College and Career Readiness for Reading
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Similar to reading novels or stories, songs have central ideas and themes which develop. Songs tell a story words alone cannot express. Obama Music students will understand the central idea or theme of the songs they learn and perform. Music students will analyze the development of themes, and summarize/recall the supporting details which utilize mature performance practices.
College and Career Readiness for Reading
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
College and Career Readiness for Reading
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text relate to each other and the whole.
College and Career Readiness for Reading
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
College and Career Readiness for Speaking and Listening
Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
College and Career Readiness for Knowledge of Language
Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
Obama Music students are expected to constantly absorb content not only from what they are playing and learning from their instrument, but from other instrumentalists and their peers in the band or orchestra class. The information learned and retained (the music, notation, or musical language) will be useful when learning to play different styles of music, learning different songs, and or when playing along with others. When students acquire and retain the language of music and know how it functions in different performance settings, music students are able to be more positive contributors to the entire ensemble or music class.