Student Teachers Name: Pat Walters

Date: 10-19-14
Grade Level: 7 + 8 Grade
Subject Area: Music
Physical Setting: Classroom
School: Wilson Middle School
District: Wyandotte
Lesson Plan Title: Now THATS a Cover!

Outcomes (objectives/performance indicators):

Students will be able to:
1. Think critically about the way each artist performs a song and how it changes the
meaning or interpretation of a song.
2. discuss how this ability to sing a song in two different ways and portray two different
meanings can be applied to speaking and communicating with other people in
everyday life.
Standards:
ART.M.III.7.2 - Analyze elements of music used in music of increasingly diverse genres
and styles.
ART.M.III.7.4 - Develop criteria based on musical knowledge and personal reflections to
evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances. Apply these criteria as
self- evaluation when performing and creating.
ART.M.IV.7.2 - Classify by genre and style (and, if applicable, by historical period,
composer, and title) a varied body of exemplary musical works.

Rationale:
Students will learn to compare and contrast by listening to two different performers sing
the same song and talk about how each made each song come alive in their own way.

Materials:
CD and CD Player

Teacher Procedure/Development of Lesson:

Introduction:
1. Talk about what a cover is in context of music.
1. An artists own spin on another artists song.
2. Ask students if they know of any covers
3. Tell students that they will here a couple of examples of an original song and a cover
of it.
4. For ever song they will have to write down what kind of feeling they experience from
the performance and how the cover differed or was similar to the original

Methods and Procedures:

Directions:
Play the following songs (Original followed by the cover) and describe how each singer/
performer is similar or different in the way they perform.
Track 8 + 9 Hound Dog:
Similarity:_____________________________________________________________.
Difference:____________________________________________________________.
Track 10 + 11 Feelin Good:
Similarity:_____________________________________________________________.
Difference:____________________________________________________________.

Track 12 + 13 Save the Last Dance:

Similarity:_____________________________________________________________.
Difference:____________________________________________________________.
Track 14 + 15 Hurt:
Similarity:_____________________________________________________________.
Difference:____________________________________________________________.
Track 16 + 17 Pumped Up Kicks:
Similarity:_____________________________________________________________.
Difference:____________________________________________________________.
Closure:

Allow students to share what they experience from each song and its cover and ask
how they think this can be applied in everyday life.
1. The way you say something shows a lot about how you feel about someone.
2. Words can mean many different things depending on how you say them
3. Sometimes we misinterpret what someone meant and take offense to their words
when they never meant any harm in what they said.
4. Music has a HUGE ability to express ones emotions and feelings.
Accommodations/ Adaptations:

Assessment/Evaluation:
Informal assessment during discussion between students.
Teacher Reflection:
Did students get out of the lesson what I had planned.
Did they learn?
Were they engaged in the lesson?
Were there too or too few many examples?
Were the examples diverse enough?