Listening

Our school goal is to improve our students' writing test scores. So, all teachers are required to do writing activities in class. Today, I taught dynamic markings and tempo markings to my 6th grade students. Dynamic is how loud or soft the music is and tempo is how fast or slow the music is. We listened to the Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven. Students had to write at least 7 sentences about the dynamic and tempo from the listening. They also had to write down the name of instruments that were played in the music.  I thought this would be great for them to improve their listening skill and writing skill at the same time. Some students struggled, but some students wrote a great paragraph.