by Kirsten LLOYD | Feb 15, 2024 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
In Music, the grade 8s have been looking into the modern music business and look how pieces are built today. While original work is still being produced, three musical structures have been growing in popularity. When an artist takes an existing song and remakes it,...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Jan 25, 2024 | Community and Service, Grade 9, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
In a PBL (Project Based Learning), the Grade 9 practiced their fledgling composition skills through the lens of Advocacy Music. Each student selected a Sustainable Development Goal to use as stimuli for their compositions. As a class, we focused on how to use timbre,...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Jan 25, 2024 | Grade 8, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
The grade 8 students have been wrapping up a long unit looking at the musical styles and genres of the Americans. Starting with understanding the historical impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the Northern and Southern American continents, the students looked...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Jan 18, 2024 | The Grades
The Grade 7s are starting a new unit looking at connections in culture through the lens of Gamelan music. Gamelan orchestras are a traditional style of music from Indonesia, focusing on different percussive instruments (pitched and not) as well as flutes and gongs. ...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Nov 30, 2023 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
As part of the Year Five assessments, the grade 10s will be completing the E.Portfolio. This culminating project of their MYP learning is an opportunity for the students to share what they have learned over the past five years. Each year, the IB sends out a new unit...
