Ten minute lesson Reflection

Today, I had the opportunity to teach a ten minute audition lesson for my graduate class. The ten minute lesson was an excerpt from a three day unit I created about verse-chorus song form.  

            After piloting my ten minute audition lesson, I believe the unit is an effective way to teach verse-chorus form, but the arrangement activity does not work well for a 10 minute audition. The activity would take actual 8^th grade students closer to fifteen to twenty minutes to create the arrangement and rehearse it. In my actual lesson plan I had written that the creation of the arrangement and practicing would be on Day 2 of the unit, and the actual performances would be on the third day. The students would also have time to grade themselves after the performances. While I like the activity and the entire unit that I created, I do not think that the activity would work well for an audition if it was only ten minutes. I will be keeping the three day lesson plan for the future, but I plan to re-do the ten minute audition activity. I had trouble fitting initiation, development and closure into a ten minute period.