13 January 2012
Today was the first day of music since grade 7. For today all we did was picknthe instrument that we want to learn more for this entire semester, and after that we had to relearn the basic scale just to make sure all of the new student knew as much as the others do since mostpf them don't have any music subject in their old school.
18 January 2012
Today we were told that we were going to have a singing assessment in pairs not so long from today. We were given the song "Indonesia Raya" and "Berkibarlah Benderaku", we were only supposed to sing one of them. Since my partner didn't know the other song we were supposed to sing "Indonesia Raya". After picking our partner and our song we practised both of the song as a class. We had to practice a couple of times and then we were dismissed to go to our instrument class. But before that we were given a homework on some chords.
20 January 2012
Today after checking our homework altogether it turns out that I was one of the few who got a perfect score. After we were done with noting down our scores we practiced our assessment song again and that is all we did today.
25 January 2012
Today seems quite faster than last week, we practiced the assessment song over and over again, and as usual we bring our heavy instruments for nothing.
27 January 2012
today is the assessment day!! not much else to say.....
1 February 2012
Today we learned more about notations, specifically chords and scales. Thanks to this lesson I now know how to differentiate major and minor. The sad part was that we got homework...... which is supposed to be a another assessment.
3 February 2012
today we learned more about the chords and their inversions. At first remembering these things seems very hard, but at the end I begin to see the pattern and now I am starting to remember most of them. After learning these thing Mr Sadrakh tested some of us to make sure that we were paying attention to him. I was lucky enough to not get called.
8 February 2012
Today after we checked the attendance as usual Mr Sadrakh gave us a lecture about always practicing our instrument in home, I find it a bit boring but it seems that it effected some of us. After the Mr Herry told us about how to download and what is "finale". He also told us to bring either a laptop or a usb on friday so that we can each get a copy of it so we can use it in our next assessment.
10 February 2012
Today Mr Sadrakh made sure all of us know the chords well and after that we had to copy quite a lot of things from the white board. It was supposed to help us in how to compose a song, which was our next assessment. Lately every time we go to music class it always have something to do with an assessment -__-"
15 February 2012
Today Mr Sadrakh gave us some tips on how to get a perfect score on our baroque composer booklet assessment and for some of us who still haven't get the copy of the finale software finally got a copy. After explaining a lot we got a booklet to write down our reflection for the baroque composers booklet. We were also told to either make a new blog or use our old blog to type in our reflection for music. If we already made the blog we were told to send the address to Mr Sadrakh cc Mr Herry.
17 February 2012
Today after checking the attendance we were supposed to explain to the teachers about the process of making our blog. It seems like a lot of people forgot their old password so they had to make a new one. After that since Mr Harry was absent the flute and saxophone class were told to join our violin class. When ew see them play it seems like saxophone is hard, but acoording to what some people say the violin is supposed to be harder, so we were supposed to be lucky to be able to play a violin.
22 February 2012
Today Mr Sadrakh was mad at almost everyone in the class just because 3 people came in late to class. Well maybe he has a reason to be mad because the 3 people were late for more than 10 minutes. According to the 3, they were late because they were printing the music booklet that was supposed to be dued today, evenif it was for his subject, it seems that Mr Sadrakh won't give mercy to them, they were told to stand in front of class for almost a whole session. Aside from the fact that the 3 were very late, he also got mad because many of us didn't submit the assessments ontime, after that he gave us a very long lecture about always submiting things ontime and that took all of our music time -___-"
24 February 2012
Today Mr Sadrakh was absent so Mr Harry had to replace him. With Mr Harry we learned how to put chords in the finale programme. This helps us get a higher mark on our 32 bars composition. we also learnt how to edit the lines and other things like that.
29 February 2012
Today I just remembered that I haven't print my finale so I tried to print in the 5th floor, sadly the computer there doesn't have the finale software so I couldn't priunt it. So I think I will get a resouces homework today... we also had to check our attendance, blogspot and our assessments. After that we also got a another booklet, and after the distribution we were dismissed to our next class.
2 March 2012
Today Mr Sadrakh checked on the people who haven't make the blogspot and submit the finale. After that we he gave us some tips on what to write in our blogspot. He also adviced us to write atleast 2 paragraphs if we want to get some good scores for opur reflection criterion.
7 March 2012
Today after we checked the attendance Mr Sadrakh showed us the chosen songs. It turns out pretty good, I was also happy that myn group got a good background music. He also told us about our 32 bars melody score. I was very happy to hear that I got 9/10. He also had to takea photo of everyone of us for our past assessment.
9 March 2012
Today after the attendance we each have to present our pe movements/routine, and that tookalmost all of the time there is. when we came back after snack we got our baroque booklet scores. I was very happy to get 7/8 while other people get lower score.
14 March 2012
Today Mr Sadrakh helped us with our evaluation stage b asking us questions. He had to go to 8th floor for a while sin the middle of class so Mr Herry had to replace him for less than 10 minutes. While Mr Herry was replacing Mr Sadrakh he also asked us a couple of questions on how we did our previous assessments.After class we had to ask for Mr Sadrakh's signature for our PE booklet since we were supposed to ask for signatures from our english, music and technology teachers.
16 March 2012
Today Mr Sadrakh reminded us hat there would be another assessment next week. This time it would be under the criteria application. According to the name itself in this assessment we have to play our instrument. we have to either choose to play our 32 bars composition or play our group's melody. He also gave us a lecture on personal engagement and how it would effect our grades.
28 March 2012
Today Mr Sadrakh asked us one by one if we are done with our music reflection or not. After that we had to watch some of our friends who got low scores do their redo. I was so happy that i'm not one of them. after seeing their last weeks performance, comparing it with the now one, they all improved a lot...... well at least most of them improved. After hearing them perform we were told to fill in a worksheet about our music reflection blog. fortunately I got 9/10!! :D
11 April 2012
Today we were given the assessment schedules for this term's music. According to the schedule our first assessment would be on 18 April 2012, which is exactly a week from now, this doesn't give us a lot of time to prepare at all. It also says here that this assessment would be based on the criteria application, which means we would be singing, the worse part is that we would be singing a western song. Though what I don't understand is that the song is Italian :(
Aside from the fact that we were told that our assessment is very close, we were also informed our reflection score. I got 8/8 :D
13 April 2012
Today we practiced the Italian song that we were supposed to sing for our assessment. The song didn't turn out to be half as hard as I thought it would be. Th melody was not that hard to remember, the only problem is that I have no idea on what is the meaning of the words that we have to sing. I think none of my classmates also knows.
We were told to sing as a class and as partners.one of us even had to sing solo since Mr Sadrakh thought that his voice was very nice.
18 April 2012
Today we were give a reflection booklet so that we won't have to write our reflection draft in our journals again, unless we forget. After we were told to keep our booklets Mr Sadrakh gave us another booklet, this time it is related to our solo singing assessment. After finishing the front page of the booklet the assessment began. When I heard my friends sing I was a bit surprised to see how most of them improved since the last time they had to sing in front of class, and of course this made me a bit worried.
After singing in front I was both relieved but then I begin to worry about another thing, my score. I don't think I did a great job, maybe it because I was so nervous.
20 April 2012
Today people who Mr Sadrakh thinks didn't do their best last time were told to redo. There was at least 5 of them, luckily I wasn't among them. When we heard them sing we realized that actually everyone can get a good score, they just need some threatening words to do their best. they have all improved a lot ever since last Wednesday.
25 April 2012
Today we were told to read our baroque booklets to help us prepare for our next assessment which have something to do with writing an essay of the baroque era. Some of us were also cold up front to read our introduction page. Aside from that there is not much left to say about today.
27 April 2012
We went to waterbom today so no music class.
2 May 2012
Our assessment was supposed to be on last Friday but since we went to waterbom we had it today. it turns out way different from what i had expected. Well at least it became easier than I expected.
4 May 2012
Today we were told to finish some sort of work sheet about Johann Sebastian Bach's biography. We got around 3 pages of information and 2 pages of questions, though I didn't find it that hard to answer. The only problem i had when i was answering these questions was that i didn't have enough lines to write all of my answer.
9 May 2012
Today some of us had to practice for our next assessment which would be around 22 of May. this time the assessment would be based on the the criterion application. unfortunately i was one of the one who needs to perform, sadly i wasn't ready and i played very awfully....
11 May 2012
today the people who haven't played last week were told to play up front. some of them played better than most of us who played on Wednesday. we also had a speech from Mr Sadrakh about the importance of personal engagement. He also made sure that all of us already remember the scales by heart.
16 May 2012
today the people who haven't practiced infront of the whole class was told to practice today. there was also a few students that mr sadrakh specifically told to practice more. we were also reminded that we will have our assessment on 22-23 May 2012
18 May 2012
today mr sadrakgh was replaced by mr Harry. We were told to practice the C Major scale, after that he told one person from each instrument class to practice in front of the whole class, luckily I wasn't one of them. We also didn't skip our instrument class today. Though since mr Sadrakh was absent and there wasn't any other teacher that was available, we had to practice for our assessment alone.
23 May 2012
today we had to do our assessments. most of the reflection of my performance i wrote on the worksheet that mr sadrakh distributed. aside from that i'm not fully sure if i would get a good score. we also got our written assessment score, i got 8/8
25 May 2012
today we got our booklet back which was collected the last time we had our music class which was on wednesday. we were also told to take better care of our journal booklet and also to fill it in completely. today like usuall our instrument class was skipped again just because we had to see our friends do their redo.
