Our Lessons

In middle school, AEP lessons develop deeper artistic knowledge, skills, and understandings through a rotation of discipline-specific lessons. Each lesson is designed to stand alone but build on the topics taught previously. 

These lessons are for use in the AEP Program ONLY.

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Music

• Lesson 1: Open String Pitches -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 2: Chords (C and Am) -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 3: Rhythm Notation -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 4: Melodies -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 5: Form -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 6: Select, Perform, Critique -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

Theatre

• Lesson 1: Actors Tools and Ensemble -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 2: Character Depth with Actor’s Tools -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 3: Tableau with Subtext -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 4: Developing a Scene -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 5: Scenes with Status -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 6: Devising a Scene -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

Visual Art

• Lesson 1: Dia de los Muertos! -- Lesson Plan and Slides

• Lesson 2: Identity & Empowerment -- Lesson Plan and Slides: Whilce Portacio

• Lesson 3: Food -- Lesson Plan and Slides: Wayne Thiebaud Cupcake

• Lesson 4: Identity -- Lesson Plan and Slides: Hugo Croswaithe

• Lesson 5: Culture & Place -- Ricardo Breceda (sculpture)

• Lesson 6: Perspective -- Slides: Louis Kahn

                Design- Slides; Aaliyah Naimah

Media Arts

• Lesson 1: Community-- Lesson Plan 1 &  Slides for Old Town State Park (Google Vids)

• Lesson 2: Space- Slides for Nam June Paik (Google Drawings)

• Lesson 3: Perspective-- Lesson Plan 3  & Slides for David Hockney (Google Drawings)

• Lesson 4: Color-- Lesson Plan 4 & Chromebook Slides for Ansel Adams

• Lesson 5: Space-- Lesson 5 & Chromebook Slides for Kehinde Wiley (Google Drawings)

Music

• Lesson 1: Ukulele Review -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 2: Meter -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 3: Strum Patterns -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 4: Finger Picking -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 5: Improvisation -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

• Lesson 6: Select, Perform, Critique -- Lesson Plan and Slide Deck

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