8F

8F – Unit 5 – Songwriting & Composing (May 18 - June 17) During Unit 5, grade 8 will work in small groups to compose a song. Some of the activities included in this unit are a lyric writing workshop, tutorial of Musescore software, a composing lab and a performance day. Students will be applying skills they have acquired throughout their music training at middle level.

Unit 6 – Guitar (June 3 – 17) Our final unit will deal with the basics of guitar and will overlap with our songwriting project. Students will learn the how to tune and string guitars, how to play one string songs and become competent in identifying parts of the acoustic guitar. Grade 8 will also learn how to recognize basic cords in order to play one measure of a song.