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PLEASE NOTE: If you are interested in purchasing this SOW then I have included a free sample lesson for you to have a look at. The entire SOW contains this and 6 other lessons as well as a full student workbook and all the supporting resources. View this here – https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-proof-music-sample-lesson-key-signatures-12370923 I am teaching Music zonally from SEPT 2021 and so have designed this SOW to facilitate Music in a non-specialist room with no access to instruments or technology. This is a full 7 2hour lessons focusing on putting KS3 students through the ABRSM GRADE 1 theory exam. There are also video versions of all lessons to allow for home learning. In the ZIP FILE you get; Full SOW with breakdown of every lesson PowerPoints for all lessons designed in Rosenshine light Student worksheets with differentiated activities Video versions of ALL lessons to allow for home learning (if further lockdown occurs) Monthly recap Quizzes to be used as starters HW tasks Pupil assessment radar The ZIP FILE is in a dropbox link in the READ ME document as it is too big to upload to TES

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Theme and Variations *1. Ensure that your theme is based on one of the given chord progressions by writing and labelling the given chords on a guide stave beneath the main piano stave. *2. Unless there is a good reason to do so, each of your variations should also follow this chord progression.

GCSE Revision Checklist Your Music Listening and Appraising paper will be roughly an hour and 30 minutes. The paper will consist of 8 questions, with 2 questions on each area of study (this means you need to be prepared to answer questions on all topics, but you won’t be assessed on them all)....

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Minimalism has been a popular topic for examination boards for many years. The most enduring of contemporary classical music styles to emerge since the 1950s, it lends itself well to classroom teaching, with many of its processes being easy to explain and replicate in composition and classroom performance. The music it