In this brand new performance-based unit, Back in Time to the Popular Music Part 1, pupils 'travel back in time' to visit and explore popular music through the decades, focusing on a case study popular song to focus their exploration.
 
Beginning with going Back in Time to 1950's Rock 'n' Roll, pupils examine "Rock Around the Clock".  They then explore "Twist and Shout" as they go Back in Time to 1960's Beatlemania.  Finally, pupils analyse "Dancing Queen" as they go Back in Time to 1970's Europop Disco.
 
Back in Time to the Popular Music Part 1 contains 6 fully-resourced lessons containing a detailed Lesson Plan, Pupil Worksheet and Presentation (containing all embedded media files) and audio files (MP3 and WAV) are also included separately.  Each lesson begins with an Intro Quiz/DOITNOW with opportunities to consolidate knowledge and understanding using PIT STOP'S.  Each lesson ends with an interactive multiple choice Exit Quiz. There is also a Unit Overview giving Purpose, Outcomes, Lesson Questions and Core Content and a Repertoire Analysis in terms of the Elements of Music (MAD-TSHIRT).
 
During this unit, pupils listen with increasing discrimination to a wide range of popular music from great composers and musicians, different genres and styles and from different times and places. Pupils perform accessible pieces of popular music from different decades of popular musical history, in both solo and ensemble contexts, with an awareness of effective performance technique including stylistic manipulation of the elements of music suitable to that musical genre, typical musical instruments ‘of the time’, music theory and score reading and notation skills in both treble and bass clef staff notation.
 
Back in Time to the Popular Music is a fully-resourced flexible unit in two parts, and can be delivered via several options:
A half-termly unit of six lessons focusing on each of the musical periods/genres in a single lesson (lesson numbers 1, 3, 5 (part 1), 7, 9 & 11 (part 2))
A half-termly unit of six lessons focusing on three selected musical periods/genres, each covering two lessons (part 1, part 2 or selections from both parts).
A complete term’s unit of twelve lessons focusing on each of the musical periods/genres , each covering two lessons (parts 1 and 2).