Each unit includes:

• Full Score Analysis used for developing the teaching strategies. (Melodic, Harmonic, Rhythmic, Formal, Historical, & Cultural analysis)
• Teacher's Guide that provides strategies and activities:
  • Detailed description of all activities in the student guide.
  • Warm-up strategies that reflect the elements from the musical piece
  • Resources: Recordings, books, articles, related compositions, web-sites that would aid in teaching this piece.
  • Assessment of student learning with answers guides and/or grading rubrics and rubrics, rating scales, or check lists for assessing proficiency achievement
  • Additional information on the piece that would be useful to the teacher-conductor.
• Student Guide providing your students with
  • Learning goals
  • Instructional guidance and activities for:
    • Historical Background and cultural context: on the piece, composer, genre, style, making connection common with visual art.
    • Rhythmic concepts involved in the composition
    • Melodic movement and the relationship to other elements.
    • Harmonic foundation and relationship to other elements.
    • Form Analysis providing examples of overall form in graphic representation.
    • Practice Guide: Rhythms, scale patterns, etc. extracted from the score that the student is to practice at home and that can be utilized in ensemble warm-up.
    • Visual examples of interdisciplinary connections.
    • Assessments for student understanding of the concepts and skill development.
    • Glossary of necessary and useful terminology to understand the composition
      
  • Webquests offering your students extended instruction of literature and musical concepts