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L110 Marking Period Assessment · Tue 2027-03-16 · The Producer's Chair 100%
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GREET
Greeting at the door
Entra, sientate, empieza

Come in, sit, startEntra, sientate, empieza

Your Do Now is on the board and on today's sheet. Start it as you sit down.Tu 'Ahora' esta en la pizarra y en la hoja de hoy. Empiezalo al sentarte.

Chromebook day

Take the Chromebook with your number from the cart and sit with the lid closed until MAKE.

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DO NOW
Write one line
Escribe una linea

Write one line: which of the three tasks on the board are you strongest on, and why?

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WARM-UP
Scholar-led
Calentamiento, dirigido por un estudiante

Performance warm-up

Led by today's Warm-Up Leader. I do not run this block.Lo dirige el Líder de Calentamiento de hoy. Yo no dirijo este bloque.

  1. Breath in 4, out 8
  2. Play through your first two bars
  3. Silent fingering of the hardest bar
  4. Count-in
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TARGET
What we can do today
Lo que podemos hacer hoy

I canYo puedo

I can enter a written rhythm into the piano roll, balance three layers, and map my own track from memory.

I know I have got it whenSe que lo logre cuando

  • The written rhythm went into the piano roll correctly
  • I balanced the three layers and wrote down why
  • My arrangement map matched the file

Read aloud by today's Target Reader.Lo lee en voz alta el Lector de la Meta de hoy.

El espanol del texto propio de esta lección llega con su unidad; la rutina de arriba esta traducida.

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MAKE
On your feet, in time
Manos y voces en la musica

Graded performance

  1. 6 minProgram a groove from notation
  2. 4 minBalance three layers
  3. 4 minMap your own track
  4. 1 minSubmit

Reading todayLectura de hoy

A rhythm on paper, entered into the piano roll; your own arrangement map, drawn from memory.

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TALK
You talk. I stay quiet.
Ustedes hablan. Yo me quedo callado.

You have just been assessed. What did you focus on, did it hold, and what is your evidence?

Starter (asks the question)Builder (adds evidence)Challenger (offers another reading)Recorder (reports one sentence out)

Use these to startEmpieza con estás frases

  • I noticed ______ in the performance, and I think it worked because ______.
  • I want to build on what ______ said. My evidence is ______.
  • I hear it differently. What I heard was ______, because ______.

I stay silent for the first four minutes. Talk to each other, not to the front of the room.Me quedo callado los primeros cuatro minutos. Hablen entre ustedes, no hacia el frente.

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PROVE
Show what you can do
Demuestra lo que puedes hacer

Rate your own three tasks 1 to 3 against the posted rubric and give one reason.

How you show itComo lo demuestras

Write it on today's sheet and hand it in before the bell.Escribelo en la hoja de hoy y entregala antes del timbre.

Write one line firstPrimero escribe una línea

One sentence on your Do Now line: use the word producer and point to the bar on the board that proves it.Una oración en tu línea del 'Ahora': usa la palabra producer y señala la prueba.

Before you finishAntes de terminar

Rate yourself against the success criteria, give one classmate a specific comment using a word from today's list, then fix one thing they named before you show me.

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PACK-DOWN
Instruments away
Guardar los instrumentos

Equipment Manager runs thisLo dirige el Encargado de Equipo

  1. Save, close the lid, Chromebook back in its numbered slot in the cart

Two minutes. The bell should never catch us with instruments out.Dos minutos. El timbre nunca debe sorprendernos con los instrumentos afuera.