Orchestra Grade 7 20-21-1 Assignments

Good morning everybody.  This morning you will have an opportunity to earn some extra credit.  Make sure that you wait to begin until you are physically in the classroom (Room 108).  You will do the following:
1. Select the exercise for your instrument.
2. Take the quiz a maximum of three times.
3. At the end of your last attempt, click on your high score.
4. Where it provides a space, type in your name.
5. Click "Sign Report".
6. At the top click, "Copy Code".
7. Paste the code onto a private comment and send it to me on this assignment. 
8. Click turn in or submit.
You MUST COMPLETE AT LEAST 20 questions to earn credit.  
The percentage points you earn will be banked to use as you would like on any test.  
After you finish please make sure you take out your instrument and head to page 30 in your Essential Elements for Strings Books.


Buenos dias a todos. Esta mañana tendrá la oportunidad de obtener un crédito adicional. Asegúrese de esperar para comenzar hasta que esté físicamente en el salón de clases (Salón 108). Hará lo siguiente: 
1. Seleccione el ejercicio para su instrumento. 
2. Realice el cuestionario un máximo de tres veces. 
3. Al final de su último intento, haga clic en su puntuación más alta. 
4. Donde proporciona un espacio, escriba su nombre. 
5. Haga clic en "Firmar informe". 
6. En la parte superior, haga clic en "Copiar código". 
7. Pegue el código en un comentario privado y envíelo en esta tarea. 
8. Haga clic en entregar o enviar. DEBE COMPLETAR AL MENOS 20 preguntas para obtener crédito. Los puntos porcentuales que gane se guardarán para usarlos como le gustaría en cualquier prueba. Una vez que haya terminado, asegúrese de sacar su instrumento y diríjase a la página 30 en sus Libros de Elementos esenciales para cuerdas.

Good morning everybody.  Today you should be practicing your instruments but sometimes we need to have a fun piece of music.  Therefore, there is a bit of a change for today. Please fill out the Google Form below. 
Buenos dias a todos. Hoy deberías estar practicando tus instrumentos, pero a veces necesitamos tener una pieza musical divertida. Por lo tanto, hoy hay un pequeño cambio. Complete el formulario de Google a continuación.

Good afternoon everybody. As promised here is the link to our assignment if you would like to get your work done early. You will be playing #115 from page 29 of our Essential Elements for Strings book 1. Please make sure that you do the following:
1. Record yourself performing.
2. Make sure that I can see you playing.
3. Make sure that I can see you from the right so that I can see both your bow hand and your left hand as you play.
Please note that if you perform facing forward with the scroll pointed toward the camera I will send it back to you and ask you to re-record.
4. Upload your performance video to Google Classroom and click submit.
You will be graded on the following:
1. Correct Notes
2. Steady Beat
3. Is your bow parallel to the bridge or is it slanted?
*Slanted bows earn a deduction of 5 points.
4. Tone Quality*
*A small squeak here or there is expected at this time but try to minimize the amount of squeaks that your bow makes by keeping your bow parallel to the bridge.

Buenas tardes a todos. Como se prometió, aquí está el enlace a nuestra tarea si desea terminar su trabajo temprano. Tocará el n. ° 115 de la página 29 de nuestro libro Elementos esenciales para cuerdas 1. Asegúrese de hacer lo siguiente:
1. Grabe su interpretación.
2. Asegúrate de que te pueda ver jugando.
3. Asegúrate de poder verte desde la derecha para que pueda ver tanto tu mano con el arco como tu mano izquierda mientras juegas. Tenga en cuenta que si realiza la presentación mirando hacia adelante con el desplazamiento apuntando hacia la cámara, se lo enviaré y le pediré que vuelva a grabar.
4. Sube tu video de actuación a Google Classroom y haz clic en enviar. Se le calificará según lo siguiente:
1. Notas correctas
2. Ritmo constante
3. ¿Está su arco paralelo al puente o está inclinado? * Los arcos inclinados obtienen una deducción de 5 puntos.
4. Calidad del tono *
* Se espera un pequeño chirrido aquí o allá en este momento, pero trate de minimizar la cantidad de chirridos que hace su arco manteniendo su arco paralelo al puente.

Good morning everybody. Today we will continue practicing our music. Please make sure that you fill out the Google Form below.
*I know that some of you prefer to fill out the form early and turn it in so you don't have to worry about it the next day. Working proactively is a great thing. Just remember that we need to practice each day to make the best progress. Practicing one day does not not replace the practice we would do for the next day.

Good afternoon everybody. For today we are treating it as if it were a normal practice session. I expect not less than 15 minutes of practice time logged and submitted online for you to be counted as present and for you to receive your grade.

Good morning everybody. Often when we are not able to get to our instruments we have to be creative in how we practice. We might do the following:
1. Make something that we can use to practice. (I.E. Use a paper towel roll and draw a fingerboard on it.)
2. Listen to the music we need to perform.
3. Clap and count the rhythms.
This assignment deals with #3. You will do the following:
1. Look at the EEiRhythmWritingGuide below
2. Take notes in class about performance of these rhythms.
3. Make a video of yourself performing the rhythms for lines 1 and 2.
4. Make sure you have a metronome going at the same time to help you keep the steady beat.
5. Count out loud.
6. Upload your video by Friday

I really like how the good people at musictheory.net present this material. Rhythm is truly about the duration or how long a note will last for.
1. Please view the lessons below.
2.complete the Google Form as well for your exit ticket.
We will be going over this during our class time.


Me gusta mucho cómo la buena gente de musictheory.net presenta este material. El ritmo realmente se trata de la duración o cuánto durará una nota.
1. Vea las lecciones a continuación.
2. Complete también el formulario de Google para su boleto de salida.
Repasaremos esto durante nuestro tiempo de clase.

Good morning everybody. I hope you had a great weekend. We are going to take a look at Happy Birthday and do a bit of analysis. Please use the Google Form to complete this very short analysis assignment.


Buenos dias a todos. Espero que hayas tenido un gran fin de semana. Vamos a echar un vistazo a Feliz cumpleaños y hacer un poco de análisis. Utilice el formulario de Google para completar esta breve tarea de análisis.

Good morning. I hope that you all had an opportunity to rest and recharge. You will notice that the Practice Journal assignment now spans more than one day. The Practice Journal will be something to complete throughout each week. The benefit here is that for now, it won't require a parent signature. There will be ways I will have built in for me to see that you are doing the assignment as you are needed to.
Please also take note of the due dates. These will be due at the end of each week from now until the end of the school year. We will be moving the check-in portion of the online experience back into the classroom.
I will be updating the format of this assignment until I am pleased that it is doing what it needs to do.

Buenos días. Espero que todos hayan tenido la oportunidad de descansar y recargar energías. Notará que la tarea del Diario de práctica ahora abarca más de un día. El Diario de práctica será algo para completar a lo largo de cada semana. El beneficio aquí es que, por ahora, no requerirá la firma de los padres. Habrá formas en las que habré incorporado para que pueda ver que está haciendo la tarea como se necesita.
También tome nota de las fechas de vencimiento. Estos serán entregados al final de cada semana desde ahora hasta el final del año escolar. Volveremos a trasladar la parte de registro de la experiencia en línea al aula.
Actualizaré el formato de esta tarea hasta que me complace que esté haciendo lo que debe hacer.

Good morning everybody. Welcome to Monday! :) Please do the following:
1. Complete the practice log.
2. Have an awesome day.
A Day students. If you want to earn some more credit please feel free to also complete this assignment.

Buenos dias a todos. ¡Bienvenidos al lunes! :) Por favor, haga lo siguiente:
1. Completa el registro de práctica.
2. Que tengas un buen día.
Estudiantes de A día. Si desea obtener más crédito, no dude en completar también esta tarea.

Good morning everybody. Sometimes we just cannot help it. Instruments break or need to be taken into a shop for preventative maintenance. When that happens, do was just stop? Is there any way to practice? I would maintain that the answer is yes. You can still practice. Today you will need to do the following:
1. Watch my video on making your own fingerboard.
2. Make your own fingerboard.
3. Take a picture of your work.
4. Upload it to Google Classroom.

Buenos dias a todos. A veces simplemente no podemos evitarlo. Los instrumentos se rompen o necesitan ser llevados a un taller para mantenimiento preventivo. Cuando eso suceda, ¿se detuvo? ¿Hay alguna forma de practicar? Yo sostendría que la respuesta es sí. Todavía puedes practicar. Hoy deberá hacer lo siguiente:
1. Vea mi video sobre cómo hacer su propio diapasón.
2. Haga su propio diapasón.
3. Tome una foto de su trabajo.
4. Súbelo a Google Classroom.

Good morning everybody. Please complete the practice journal below to earn your credit for today. This is technically for A day students but I know that some of you may be looking for a way to earn some more points. If you would like to earn some extra points and you are a B day student, please do take advantage of this opportunity.

Good morning everyone. I hope that your Tuesday was good and was as restful as possible. Today we are going to look at some of the vocabulary that you will need to know as a musician. Make sure to take the time to look up the definition for each of the following words and then go forth to the Google Form to define them.
1. Allegro
2. Con fuoco
3. Arpeggio
4. Largo

Buenos días a todos. Espero que su martes haya sido bueno y lo más reparador posible. Hoy vamos a ver parte del vocabulario que necesitarás saber como músico. Asegúrese de tomarse el tiempo para buscar la definición de cada una de las siguientes palabras y luego vaya al formulario de Google para definirlas.
1. Allegro
2. Con Fuoco
3. Arpeggio
4. Largo

Good morning everybody. I hope you are well. Today, your assignment is pretty simple.
1.You need to make a video of yourself playing the tunneling exercises that I taught you last class. These are correlated with the nonsense song I made up called, "My Dog Ate a Cherrywinkle." In answer to your question, no, you do not have to sing the song.
2. You will need to place your fingers on the D string and play your notes in the following order: (After each note on the D string you will play open A.)
G, A, F#, A, E, A, D, A, D, A, E, A, F#, A, G, A, 4th finger A, (shift down on cello) D and let the D ring.
3. After you have finished making your video, upload it to Google Classroom.
4. If it does not work then make sure you email a copy to my by making a link through Google Drive.
5. Complete the morning check in.
6. Go forth and be awesome.

Buenos dias a todos. Espero que estés bien. Hoy, tu tarea es bastante simple.
Necesitas hacer un video de ti mismo jugando los ejercicios de tunelización que te enseñé la última clase. Estos están relacionados con la canción sin sentido que inventé llamada "My Dog Ate a Cherrywinkle". En respuesta a tu pregunta, no, no tienes que cantar la canción.
2. Deberá colocar sus dedos en la cuerda D y tocar sus notas en el siguiente orden: (Después de cada nota en la cuerda D, tocará A abierta).
G, A, F #, A, E, A, D, A, D, A, E, A, F #, A, G, A, cuarto dedo A, (cambio hacia abajo en el violonchelo) D y deja que suene la D.
3. Una vez que haya terminado de hacer su video, cárguelo en Google Classroom.
4. Si no funciona, asegúrese de enviar una copia por correo electrónico a mi haciendo un enlace a través de Google Drive.
5. Complete el check in matutino.
6. Ve y sé asombroso.

Good morning everybody. Today you will be studying for the quiz that you will have on the notes in first position each string. Please also do the following:
1. Complete the morning check-in.
2. Fill out the Google Form below by posting your scores for each string after three attempts for each string.
*You need to score at least an 80% within three tries before posting your score.
3. Have an awesome day.

Buenos dias a todos. Hoy estarás estudiando para el cuestionario que tendrás en las notas en la primera posición de cada cadena. También haga lo siguiente:
1. Complete el check-in matutino.
2. Complete el formulario de Google a continuación publicando sus puntajes para cada cadena después de tres intentos para cada cadena.
* Debe obtener una puntuación de al menos un 80% en tres intentos antes de publicar su puntuación.
3. Que tengas un buen día.

Good morning everybody. I am declaring today to be a make-up day for my class ONLY. To be clear, this is not a make up day for your other classes. Please do the following:
1. Look back at your assignments.
2. Determine which ones are missing, incomplete, or if some of your work can be improved upon.
*Do not look only at your grade. Remember that for some assignments you were given credit regardless of how well you did because it was a time to practice or get to know the location of things.
3. You need to make-up, edit, revise, or improve upon, at least 3 assignments.
** You will not get credit if you complete only 2 1/2 assignments or if you complete 2.9999999999999 assignments. You must do 3.
4. After doing this, complete the Morning Check-in.
5. You will find space to document your work in the Morning Check-In. Make sure to provide your documentation in that space or you will not receive full credit for this assignment.
6. Go forth and be awesome.

Buenos dias a todos. Declaro que hoy será un día de recuperación SOLAMENTE para mi clase. Para ser claros, este no es un día de recuperación para sus otras clases. Por favor haga lo siguiente:
1. Revise sus asignaciones.
2. Determine cuáles faltan, cuáles están incompletas o si se puede mejorar parte de su trabajo. * No mires solo tu calificación. Recuerde que para algunas asignaciones se le otorgó crédito independientemente de lo bien que lo hiciera porque era un momento para practicar o conocer la ubicación de las cosas.
3. Necesita reponer, editar, revisar o mejorar al menos 3 asignaciones. ** No recibirá crédito si completa solo 2 1/2 asignaciones o si completa 2.9999999999999 asignaciones. Debe hacer 3.
4. Después de hacer esto, complete el Check-in matutino.
5. Encontrará espacio para documentar su trabajo en el Check-In matutino. Asegúrese de proporcionar su documentación en ese espacio o no recibirá crédito completo por esta tarea.
6. Ve y sé asombroso.

Good morning everybody. Today is one of those days where I offer the opportunity to you to complete some of my classwork that you have not completed before. There are some ground rules though and so please follow them closely.
1. Complete the Morning Check-In.
2. Tell me what assignments you completed using the space provided on the Morning Check-In.
3. You must complete at least 3 missing assignments from me to receive credit.
*If you complete 2 and 1/2 assignments or even 2.99999999999999 assignments, it does not count.
4. Remember, the more missing assignments you complete, the more credit I can offer.
5. Go forth and be awesome.

After viewing this video please do the following:
1. Using either the Google Drawing Space or a piece of paper draw the staff.
2. On your staff (either on Google Drawings or a piece of paper) draw the clef your instrument reads in 6 times.
*This will take practice so if it is not perfect do not worry, you will have an opportunity to make corrections.
3. If you do your draw your work on paper please take a picture using your chrome book and upload it to Google Classroom.

Good morning and afternoon everybody. I think there was some confusion on what was being expected so I am now changing it to be on one string only. I have gotten no responses on Flipgrid and I am concerned about this. Please do the following:
1. Please view my videos for YOUR instrument on what I am expecting.
2. Please make a video of yourself labeling the notes on the D string and upload it to Flipgrid using the assignment post link from our last assignment.
3. Please complete the check-in

Good morning everybody. Please do the following:
1. Complete the morning check-in.
2. IF you have not already, make a video of you mapping the D string and post it here and in the previous assignment.
3. IF you have already completed mapping the D string, you need to map out the A string.
4. If you need help in mapping the A string, please refer to your book for the notes. IF you do not have your book please Google Search what those notes are.

Good morning everybody. I apologize for the delay in getting this posted but I could not get these videos to upload and transfer correctly. This assignment should not take more than 20 minutes.
Please do the following:
1. Please view the videos on fingerboard mapping for your specific instrument.
2. IF you do not have your instrument, please view the video on what to do if you have no instrument. It is literally titled "whatifnoinstrument". Sorry for not having spaces there but as many of you may know, when you give a file a title on the computer, the computer has an easier time processing and filing that item. When you allow spaces then it actually can create small fragments in your computers memory and causes it to slow down just slightly. Over time that adds up to a lot of lost processing power.
3. Make your own video of you mapping your fingerboard.
4. BE NICE TO YOUR PEERS. Please do not post any negative, defamatory, or hurtful messages. Remember, you need to work with these people for quite some time and you never know who could help you in the future.

Buenos dias a todos. Me disculpo por la demora en publicar esto, pero no pude hacer que estos videos se cargaran y transfirieran correctamente. Esta tarea no debería tomar más de 20 minutos. Haga lo siguiente:
1. Vea los videos sobre el mapeo del diapasón para su instrumento específico.
2. SI no tiene su instrumento, vea el video sobre qué hacer si no tiene ningún instrumento. Literalmente se titula "whatifnoinstrument". Lamento no tener espacios allí, pero como muchos de ustedes saben, cuando le da un título a un archivo en la computadora, la computadora tiene un tiempo más fácil para procesar y archivar ese elemento. Cuando permite espacios, en realidad puede crear pequeños fragmentos en la memoria de su computadora y hace que se ralentice ligeramente. Con el tiempo, eso se suma a una gran pérdida de potencia de procesamiento.
3. Haga su propio video de usted mapeando su diapasón.
4. SEA AGRADABLE CON TUS COMPAÑEROS. No publique ningún mensaje negativo, difamatorio o hiriente. Recuerde, necesita trabajar con estas personas durante bastante tiempo y nunca se sabe quién podría ayudarlo en el futuro.

Good morning everybody. I am going to give you all a bit more of a head start on your work for 10/15/20 because I felt like some of you might appreciate the opportunity. Please complete the following:
1. Please complete the morning check-in.
2. Please take the open notes assessment. (Your job is to earn at least a 95% in the time allotted with having answered at least 25 questions within 1 minute in all strings.)
*The object here is to help you recognize the point at which you would usually need to switch to a higher or lower string. I found in my own playing that this skill helped me a lot.
3. Please upload a video of yourself playing either your assigned piece or one of the two following pieces from Essential Elements Book 2:
A. The Theme from The London Symphony.
B. Chester
4. If you are new to the class and have your instrument with you, please record yourself playing all the exercises from page 4.
5. Click the "Turn In" button once you have completed the entire assignment.

Good morning. I am changing the assignment slightly so we can get moving a little better. Please do the following:
1. Please complete the morning check-in for attendance purposes. (Don't forget to click the "Turn In" button.)
2. Grade 7: Please make a video of you playing your individual assigned piece.
3. Grade 8 Beginners: Please make a video of yourself practicing setting up in shoulder position.
4. Grade 8 Veterans: Please make a video of yourself playing the Theme from the London Symphony
5. Grade 8 and Grade 7 Veterans: Be on the lookout for videos on setting up vibrato. There will be an assignment for this on Wednesday.
6. Grade 7 Beginners: Please make a video of yourself setting up your instrument in playing position.
7. (All Students) Please put in your guess on what the title of our mystery piece is. ***This is 50% of your assignment grade for today.
A wrong answer will not cost you points. Remember also that you have one, "I don't know to use." If you used it last week then it will not be available for you to use this week.
*Hint: This piece was once a French folk song until Mozart arranged it as a set of 12 improvisations for piano.
Remember to be eligible for the free grade replacement you need to email me your guess so that I have

Good afternoon everybody. We have not had any correct guesses yet so I am releasing a clue... or two. Please do the following:
1. Complete the Check-in (for attendance purposes).
2. Watch the video clue.
3. Take another guess.
*Remember, if you have already said that you do not know once (or even something else that basically means 'I don't know' that was your one 'I don't know'.

It's time for a round of name that tune. The first two people in each class will have an opportunity to earn a free 100 to replace any 1 grade in the grade book that they are not happy with. To be eligible to win you must do the following:
1. Please complete the check-in. (For attendance purposes)
2. Please place your guess in the Google Form below.
3. Email me a copy of your guess. This will allow me to have a time stamp with the date so that I can determine who got their correct answer in first.
*If you do not guess correctly, do not worry. You will still earn your credit for today's assignment.
**If nobody guesses the tune then I will roll it over to the next day.
I wish you all the best of luck on this assignment. I will announce the winner per class as soon as I receive the correct answer.
Best of luck and have a happy day. :)

Good morning everybody. I hope that your Wednesday is off to a good start. In a little while I will be posting a video on setting up the left hand for each instrument. Your job will be to do the following:
1. Please complete the morning check-in for attendance purposes.
2. Please view the videos on setting up the left hand when they are posted.
3. If you have your instrument take a video of yourself setting up your left hand on the fingerboard of your instrument.
4. If you do not have your instrument you will need the following depending upon what instrument you play. You will then take a video of yourself putting your left hand in position as I will demonstrate with one of these items below.
A. If you play violin or viola, you will need either the roll that toilet paper wraps around or a stick that is about the same size around as the neck of your instrument.
B. If you play cello that same roll that toilet paper wraps around will do very well.
C. If you play Bass, then you will need the roll that toilet paper comes on.

Good morning everyone. I hope that you had a good weekend. Please do the following:
1. Complete the morning check-in.
2. If you have your instrument you will need to do the following:
A. Create a video of yourself clearly showing and telling me what the parts of your instrument are.
B. *(New Students) Practice exercise #2 in the Essential Elements for Strings Book 1 to be ready to pass it off during class.
C. **Veteran Students Get ready to play your individually assigned pieces for a grade. (This includes my students who are all virtual.)
3. If you do not have your instrument please use your book or the internet. Then draw a copy of what your instrument looks like. After that label the parts of the instrument.
4. Take a picture of your drawing and uploaded it to Google Classroom.

Good morning everyone. I hope you are doing well. Please do the following:
1. Complete the morning check-in.
2. If you have your instrument please practice setting up your instrument into playing position.
3. If you have your book please practice exercises 3 and 4 at least. If you are having fun, go further.
*Pay close attention to the place in the book about setting up the left hand.
4. Continue to practice "Ants" and "We Will Rock You".
*Let me know if you have an issue with "We Will Rock You". I have already had one student let me know the video would not work for him.
5. If you do not have your instrument please complete the music history assignment below.

Good morning everybody. I hope that you all had a productive day yesterday. Today is going to be a bit different from yesterday. Please do the following:
1. Please complete the morning check-in.
2. If you have your instrument or if you do not have your instrument please complete the Music History Assignment.
3. If you do have your instrument, please make sure to review music from last class.
4. Orchestra Grade 6 and 7 continue to review Page 4 exercises 2 and 3. Push ahead in the book if you can. (Make a video of yourself playing the exercise you feel you are doing the best on and upload to Google Classroom.)
5. Orchestra Grade 8: We need to make sure that you are able to demonstrate the following bowings and record a video of yourself demonstrating them:
A. Detache
B. Staccato
C. Hooked (Two notes of your choice both on up bow and on down bow.)
D. Slurred bows using one string only. (Use two notes that are on the same string of your choice but up and down bow.)
D. Slurred Bow (Slur two notes that occur on two different strings both up bow and down bow.)
6. 8th Grade Orchestra continue to work on "Theme from the London Symphony" and "Chester".
If you have any questions please let me know.

Good morning everyone. Please do the following:
1. Complete the morning check-in.
2. If you have your instrument with you at home please be on the lookout for the next portion of your assignment via individual email.
3. If you do not have an instrument at home and are a beginning student, please get your parents to help you purchase a copy of the Essential Elements for Strings Book 1 for your instrument.
4. All students please complete the fundamentals worksheet below.
*If you have your Essential Elements for Strings book 1 then you can use this to help you complete the worksheet. If not then please feel free to use the links below to help you.

Good morning everyone. Some of you have asked about doing the assignment early but I needed time to review the assignment and also to review what we needed for the course. I have determined that a small addition to the assignment is needed after reviewing formative assessment data. It is not much but please do your best.
1. Please complete the check-in for today.
2. Please complete the Fundamentals Google Form.
3. Please complete the Adaptive Pitch Assessment at least three times.
4. Post your percentile score and the Hz score on the Google Form I have placed below.
*This assessment is designed to be difficult. Therefore, if you do not do well it will not negatively impact your grade. You will earn your credit regardless of how well or poorly you do. This just gives me some baseline data to work with as we learn to develop our ears.
Once you have completed these items, enjoy the day.

Good morning everybody. Please do the following:
1. Complete the check-in form.
2. Please complete the adaptive pitch test below to help you train your ear.
3. Please complete the assessment at least three times.
4. Use the form below to post your best score. (Your score will be what percentile you are in.)
*Your score for this exercise will not determine your grade. It is designed to get progressively harder as students do better. Just do the best you can. This assessment does NOT collect any personably identifiable information and it does NOT collect any sensitive information. It does use Flash Player so please enable Flash Player when prompted to do so.

Good morning everybody. Those of you who have instruments in my class, will have already been emailed a playing assignment for today. Your playing assignments will be due Friday. Those individuals have also been requested to provide videos of their playing their assignments. This is where those videos will be posted.
Those of you who do not have your instruments, you can still do somethings for me. You can show me how to set up your bow hand shape with a pencil. Therefore, you will record yourself setting up your bow hand shape just like you can see me doing in the videos that I have already posted. Once you have done that, then you will also submit your video here. Another thing you will need to do is purchase a copy of the book Essential Elements for Strings book 1. You will need to purchase it for your specific instrument. Once you have purchased it please either submit a receipt to me or a picture of you with your book once you have it.

Good morning everyone. I am busy making some videos for your use later in the day. I will also be posting one quick assignment for all of you shortly as soon as I finish dealing with some technical issues on my end. :)
Completing the check in will be ONE part of your attendance for the day. You will not be fully present for today until you complete the other assignment.
For those of you veteran Orchestra students that have your instruments, you will have a playing assignment for the day. Those of you who do not have your instruments yet will need to complete the alternative assignment that I will post.

Good morning everybody. Please do the following:
1. Check out the links to www.musictheory.net for lessons to refresh your memory on reading music notes.
2. If you are somebody who has been in Orchestra before, Record a video of yourself setting up your instrument playing position and then you playing two of your favorite pieces from Essential Elements Book 1.
3. Submit it to me on this assignment tab.
4. If you are new, find an egg carton and use it to show me how to set up your instrument into playing position. You will need to record yourself and then submit your recording to this tab in Google Classroom.
*Later we will submit videos like this to Flipgrid so you can earn likes from your peers in the class.
5. Complete the check in.

Good morning everybody. I hope that you are well rested after the weekend. After reviewing my data I have learned that we need to review our notes. Please do the following:
1. Review the lessons on notes from www.musictheory.net. Please see also my screencastify video review of the notes on the alto, treble, and bass clefs.
2. Review the lesson on Steps and Accidentals.
3. Please take some time to complete the exercise below for your individual instrument.

Buenos dias a todos. Espero que haya descansado bien después del fin de semana. Después de revisar mis datos, he aprendido que debemos revisar nuestras notas. Haga lo siguiente:
1. Revise las lecciones sobre notas de www.musictheory.net. Consulte también mi revisión en video de screencastify de las notas en las claves de alto, agudo y bajo.
2. Repase la lección sobre pasos y accidentes.
3. Tómese un tiempo para completar el ejercicio siguiente para su instrumento individual.

Good evening everybody. Again I apologize for the tardiness in this being posted. It was my fault. Please take note of the due date that it is set to be due on Monday 9/21/20. Naturally, you may certainly turn it in earlier but 9/21/20 is the firm date.

Good morning everybody. I am back on track. Today we are going to be listening some more but with a bit of a twist. Today you will need to do the following:
1. Complete the daily check in.
2. Complete the listening journal.
3. Upload a video of you either clapping, tapping, or using an instrument to play the rhythms from the melody of one of your favorite songs.
What is the melody you might ask? It is the main idea or theme of a piece of music. Sometimes it is a series of very short repeated patterns called a motive. Sometimes it is rather longer such as well enter just about any love song you can think of. The one that springs to mind right now is, "My Heart Will Go On" as performed by Celine Dion. Please also be on the lookout in the near future for a checklist from me of things you need to do daily to be successful in playing your instrument and in my class.
Go forth and be awesome! :)

Good morning everybody. Please do the following for your credit today.
1. Please view the videos on the history of your instrument. (6th grade as well as 7th and 8th grade beginning students.)
2. Please view the video on the parts of your instrument. (6th grade as well as 7th and 8th grade beginning students.)
3. Please view the video on mapping out the notes on your fingerboard. (All Students)
4. Please view the pdf file for a copy of the finger board for your specific instrument. (All students)
5. Please make a copy by hand of the finger board map that I have created for you. (All students.)
6. Please make a picture of your hand drawn copy using your chrome book and upload it to Google Classroom. (All students)
7. Please complete the check in form.
8. Students in 6th grade as well as beginning 7th and 8th grade students please view the video on the ANTS song.

Please complete the check in below. Also please do the following:
1. Look at the link below that leads to musictheory.net
2. Choose a drill from below and show me your best score. (You need to try it at least three times.)
3. Find one lesson from musictheory.net and paste a link to it on the stream.

Please do the following:
1. Think of a piece that you want to play on your own.
2. Make a note of it in the Google Form.
*Note: If you are an all virtual student, this will be ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT.
3. If you are an all virtual student, please make sure that you let me know about your schedule in the Google Form. This will be important as we schedule lessons.
4. Take 5 minutes to listen to one of your favorite songs.
5. Use the Google Form to let me know what it was, who it was by, and why you like it.
6. If you are currently on the hybrid track, please also think of a piece that you would really like to play and work on as a solo. Please make a note of it in the Google Form below.
7. Hybrid students please make certain to view any and all videos that pertain to your instrument. More videos will be uploaded as soon as I have finished editing them.
8. Please complete the check in.

As we pause to remember the events of 9/11 I am struck by a thought. That is a need to slow down and reflect. You may be saying to yourselves, "But Mr. Rogers, that is something we have had waaay to much time to do lately with COVID-19." I get it but let us never forget the value of such things. With that said, your assignment is to do the following:
1. Think of one place that you can safely be outside to listen.
*If no place outside is a place you feel comfortable, find a place inside.
2. Get a notepad, pencil, and something to listen to music with.
3. Go to the safe spot and listen for 2 minutes without your music.
4. Write down what you hear as long as it is school appropriate.
5. Put your headphones on and listen for 5 minutes.
6. Tell me what music you listened to, who it was written by, and why you like it.
7. If you want to doodle about what you hear today please feel free to share that with me also.

Good morning everybody. This is the same assignment that I posted to the topic called "Flipgrid" originally. I decided things were going to get really confusing really fast so I have created the "Assignments" spot and all your virtual assignments will appear there. Please do the following to complete part one of this virtual assignment:
1. Join our Flipgrid group for this class.
2. Make a video of yourself using Flipgrid.
3. Say your name and then you need to respond to one of the three questions I posted for the first topic which is called, "Say Hi".
4. Please make sure that your video is no more than 1 minute and 30 seconds long.
*Have fun with this one. I had a great time making my video and went a little overboard with the backgrounds and filters.

Good morning. Please view the video that I posted on the Stream page of our Google Classroom. If you have not chosen your instrument yet, please use the Google form to tell me what instruments you are interested in playing. If you have already chosen your instrument I need you to make a brief Google Slides presentation about your instrument. It should include the following:
1. What instrument you play. (Include a picture.)
2. What is one thing you really like about your instrument?
3. Tell us the name of one famous maker of your instrument.
4. Include a picture of you playing your instrument (if you have one at home already. If not please omit this for now.)
5. Who is one famous composer who wrote music for your instrument? (Include a picture if you can find one.)
Then turn share the presentation with me online.
(All students please fill out the check in Form.)

With this year being completely unique the potential is high for us as learners to make no progress on our instruments. The potential is just as high, if not higher, for us to make tremendous progress and for you to be very proud of what you have been able to accomplish. To do this we will move our instruction away from large group instruction and shift to a more individualized focus of instruction. With this in mind I need you to fill out the Google Form and let me know about some of your interests in Music. I will look at this form and assessment data to help me tailor your instruction.