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Testing What You Wrote

Lesson 63 · Unit 3 · Week 15

Testing What You Wrote

Monday, December 14

As you walk inAl entrar

  1. Take your recorder from the bin.Toma tu flauta del cubo.
  2. Sit. Recorder on the desk, hands off.Siéntate. La flauta en el pupitre, manos quietas.
  3. Read the page on the board. Then listen twice.Lee la página en la pizarra. Luego escucha dos veces.
This is the page. One of the two takes followed it.
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Do Now
Two Takes, Two Faults
Dos tomas, dos fallos
The page. Read it before you listen.

One take followed the page. One did not. TWO things went wrong in that take, and they are not the same kind of thing.Una toma siguió la página. La otra no. DOS cosas salieron mal en esa toma, y no son del mismo tipo.

Take ______ is wrong. It played ______, and it did not hold ______.La toma ______ está mal. Tocó ______ y no sostuvo ______.
Take 1, then take 2Toma 1, luego toma 2
Made for this class.
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Today
I Can
Yo puedo

I canYo puedo

I can tell a reading error from a writing error by hearing two takes of one page and testing my own with a stranger.Puedo distinguir un error de lectura de un error de escritura oyendo dos tomas de una página y probando la mía con alguien que no la ha visto.

I know I have got it whenSé que lo logré cuando

  • I named both faults in take 1 and said what kind each one was.Nombré los dos fallos de la toma 1 y dije de qué tipo era cada uno.
  • I sat silent while somebody who had never seen my page played it.Me quedé callado mientras alguien que nunca vio mi página la tocaba.
  • I wrote down what I would change on my page, not on the player.Anoté qué cambiaría en mi página, no en quien la tocó.
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Warm-Up
Cold Read
Lectura en frío
  1. Breathe in for 4, out for 8.Inhala en 4, exhala en 8.
  2. The row with the recording, up and down.La fila con la grabación, subiendo y bajando.
  3. Now a line nobody has seen. Eight seconds to look.Ahora una línea que nadie ha visto. Ocho segundos para mirarla.
  4. Play it together. No practice.Tóquenla juntos. Sin ensayar.
  5. Again. Notice what changed.Otra vez. Fíjate en qué cambió.
The row, up and down, 76 BPMLa fila, subiendo y bajando, 76
Made for this class.
Cold. This is what your partner will do to your page.
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I Do
Two Kinds of Wrong
Dos tipos de error

Reading errorError de lectura

The player's. The page was clear and they missed it.Del que toca. La página estaba clara y falló.

Writing errorError de escritura

Yours. They played exactly what you wrote.Tuyo. Tocaron exactamente lo que escribiste.

  • The silent test: page handed over, hands behind your back.La prueba silenciosa: entregas la página, manos detrás de la espalda.
  • No talking. No humming. No pointing.Sin hablar. Sin tararear. Sin señalar.
  • One reader gets a bar wrong: maybe it is them.Un lector falla un compás: quizá sea él.
  • Three readers get the same bar wrong: it is the page.Tres lectores fallan el mismo compás: es la página.

Your job today is to tell them apart without defending yourself.

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We Do
One Page, Whole Room
Una página, toda la sala
Nobody has seen this. Everyone at once, cold.
  1. Play it together, cold.Tóquenla juntos, en frío.
  2. What made it easy?¿Qué la hizo fácil?
  3. What did you have to work out?¿Qué tuviste que deducir?

We build the checklist from your answers. It is the same checklist you will use on your own page in ten minutes.

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You Do
The Silent Test
La prueba silenciosa
  1. Your page goes to somebody at a different table.Tu página va a alguien de otra mesa.
  2. Hands behind your back. You say nothing.Manos detrás de la espalda. No dices nada.
  3. They play it cold, twice.La tocan en frío, dos veces.
  4. Write down what they played that you did not write.Anota qué tocaron que tú no escribiste.
  5. Then write what you will change ON THE PAGE.Luego anota qué cambiarás EN LA PÁGINA.

The ruleLa regla

When a stranger plays it wrong, you change the page, not the player.Cuando alguien lo toca mal, cambias la página, no a quien toca.

They played ______ where I wrote ______. I will change ______.Tocaron ______ donde escribí ______. Voy a cambiar ______.
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Exit Ticket
Show Me
Muéstrame
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    What is the difference between a reading error and a writing error? 1 pt¿Cuál es la diferencia entre un error de lectura y uno de escritura?
  2. 2
    What did your reader play that you did not write, and what will you change? 2 pts¿Qué tocó tu lector que tú no escribiste, y qué vas a cambiar?

Pack upA guardar

  1. Test Card to the front, page clipped behind it.La tarjeta de prueba al frente, con tu página detrás.
  2. Wipe the mouthpiece.Limpia la boquilla.
  3. Recorder in its bag, bag in the bin.La flauta en su bolsa, la bolsa al cubo.
  4. Slip to me at the door.Entrégame la hoja en la puerta.
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Tomorrow
Next: Fixing Notation Errors
Mañana: arreglar errores de notación

Tomorrow we fix what today found - and I will show you the mistakes that turned up on the most pages in this room.Mañana arreglamos lo que hoy encontramos, y les mostraré los errores que aparecieron en más páginas de esta sala.

Nothing on that list will have your name next to it.Nada de esa lista llevará tu nombre al lado.

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