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L162 Your Notation Journey · Fri 2027-06-11 · The Business and The Showcase 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.

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DO NOW
Write one line
Escribe una linea

Write one line: what can you read on a staff now that you could not in September?

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

Ear 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, twice
  2. Clap four beats, then the first bar of your first score
  3. Sing that bar on 'doo'
  4. Pencil out, scores in order
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TARGET
What we can do today
Lo que podemos hacer hoy

I canYo puedo

I can trace my own notation across the year by laying out every score I wrote in order and annotating what got harder.

I know I have got it whenSe que lo logre cuando

  • Every score I wrote is laid out in order
  • I annotated what got harder on at least three of them
  • I named one thing I can read now that I could not in September

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
Pencil on the staff
Manos y voces en la musica

Your Notation Journey

  1. 4 minEvery notated artifact, in date order
  2. 5 minRead the September one aloud
  3. 4 minWhat you can read now
  4. 2 minHold it up

Reading todayLectura de hoy

Every score you wrote this year, in order, from the first four beats to the showcase piece.

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

Which score was the turning point, 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 bar ______, and I think it is right because ______.
  • I want to build on what ______ said. My evidence is bar ______.
  • I read it differently. What I saw 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

Name one thing you can notate now that you could not in September, and point to the score that proves it.

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 notation and point to the bar on the staff that proves it.Una oración en tu línea del 'Ahora': usa la palabra notation 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.