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Grade 7 Band Units

Unit Plan 2 (Grade 7 Band): Instrument Technique Review

Refine 7th grade band technique—posture, embouchure, breathing, hand position, and stick control—to improve tone quality and playing accuracy.

Grade 7 Band Units

Unit Plan 1 (Grade 7 Band): Band Culture & Expectations

Set a strong 7th grade band culture with clear rehearsal routines, collaboration norms, and goal-setting that connects students’ interests to ensemble responsibility and success.

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Teacher Wellness Playbook: Combating Burnout with Micro-Breaks and Professional Learning Communities

Teacher Wellness Playbook with micro-breaks, Wellness Buddies, PLC stress sessions, and a digital tracker to reduce burnout and boost resilience.

Grade 8 Band Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade 8 Band): Culminating Band Performance

Grade 8 band culminating performance showcasing musicianship, leadership, and professionalism through accurate, expressive ensemble playing.

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Unit Plan 35 (Grade 8 Band): Final Performance Preparation

Grade 8 band unit polishing repertoire with feedback, targeted rehearsals, and a final expressive, accurate ensemble performance.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 8 Band): Purposeful Music Choices

Grade 8 band unit explaining how instrumentation, tone color, articulation, and style match music to audiences and purposes, with personal connections to choices.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 8 Band): Evaluating Ensemble Growth

Evaluate Grade 8 band ensemble progress using a rubric and musical evidence—tone, intonation, rhythm, balance, blend, and expression—by analyzing recordings, comparing growth over time, and setting clear next-step goals.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 8 Band): Expressive Performance

Grade 8 band unit refining expressive, stylistically accurate ensemble performance—blending accurate pitch/rhythm/tone with dynamics, phrasing, articulation, balance, and feedback-driven polish.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade 8 Band): Student-Led Rehearsals

Grade 8 band unit where students plan and lead warm-ups and rehearsal segments, using targeted strategies and respectful feedback to build leadership, professionalism, and personal growth as musicians.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade 8 Band): Refining Technique & Endurance

Grade 8 band unit on sight-reading using pre-reading scans, rhythm strategies, and error recovery to build confident, accurate ensemble reading.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade 8 Band): Advanced Sight-Reading

Grade 8 band unit on sight-reading using pre-reading scans, rhythm strategies, and error recovery to build confident, accurate ensemble reading.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade 8 Band): Expressive Composition

Grade 8 band unit where students improvise emotions into motifs, compose expressive pieces, perform them, and explain how musical choices communicate mood.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 8 Band): Ensemble Performance

Grade 8 band unit building ensemble accuracy, balance, leadership, and professionalism through focused rehearsals and a culminating performance.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade 8 Band): Musical Storytelling

Create Grade 8 band musical stories—students compose and perform short narrative pieces, then explain how motifs, dynamics, tempo, and texture express intent and reflect identity.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 8 Band): Style & Cultural Authenticity

Grade 8 band unit on stylistic performance using cultural context to guide articulation, dynamics, phrasing, tempo, and tone.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 8 Band): Music in Cultural Context

Grade 8 band unit exploring cultural and historical context to guide tempo, style, and interpretation for more authentic, expressive performances.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 8 Band): Music & Personal Growth

Grade 8 band unit reflecting on identity, goals, and leadership, helping students connect personal experiences to musical growth and future plans.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade 8 Band): Evaluating Performances

Grade 8 band unit evaluating performances with a rubric on tone, intonation, rhythm, balance, blend, and expression, using evidence to set improvement goals.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade 8 Band): Comparing Interpretations

Grade 8 band unit on critical listening and interpretation, guiding students to compare multiple recordings of the same work using evidence about tempo, articulation, balance, and style to determine which best matches the composer’s intent.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade 8 Band): Tone Color & Instrumentation

Grade 8 band unit exploring tone color and instrumentation, helping students analyze how timbre, articulation, and style shape musical meaning and expressive impact.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade 8 Band): Musical Form & Meaning

Grade 8 band unit analyzing musical form, repetition, and contrast, helping students map sections and explain how structure and musical elements create unity and expressive meaning.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade 8 Band): Sharing Instrumental Creations

Grade 8 band unit where students perform original music with accurate tone, rhythm, and balance, and explain how expressive choices communicate mood and meaning to audiences.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade 8 Band): Rehearsing Created Music

Rehearsal-focused Grade 8 band unit using chunking, looping, metronome/tuner work, and recordings to improve accuracy, rhythm, balance/blend, and intonation while setting goals from feedback.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade 8 Band): Interpretation & Expression

Grade 8 band unit on expressive interpretation, comparing recordings and applying dynamics, tempo, articulation, and phrasing in performance.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade 8 Band): Revising Musical Ideas

Grade 8 band unit refining compositions for clarity, balance, playability, and expression using criteria-based revisions with documented before-and-after changes.