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Here you will find all of the lastest details on our Marching Eagles including Mr. Kershaw's weekly emails.

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CHICAGO 2020 UPDATE

3/23/2020

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Hello WD Band & Choir Family,

It is with great disappointment that we are announcing that this year’s band & choir performance tour of Chicago, Illinois is cancelled.  It is virtually impossible to predict where we will be in 2 months from now. What we do know is that these next few weeks were critical to finalizing all trip reservations. We feel it would be immensely irresponsible to hope for a reality that we cannot confirm. Please accept our difficult decision and count on us to resolve all surrounding issues.

It is our intent to postpone our Chicago trip to 2021. We strongly believe that these trips provide an amazing growth experience to our students. We value these experiences and have seen firsthand their impact on building strong, independent leaders.

SENIORS: We are currently considering allowing current seniors to participate in 2021 pending school district approval. You will always be family and if we can offer this experience to seniors, we will.
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PAYMENTS/REFUNDS: At this point we are beginning to contact our venues and agencies. Many deposits have already been paid out and it will take us some time to work through our options with each booking. It is our optimistic hope that we can obtain all monies paid out. Please be patient with us as we work through this.  Once all deposits are accounted for, trip participants will be given the option of a refund for payments received or to have their current balance applied to next year’s trip.  Again, we ask for your patience as we firm up the balance sheet.

On behalf of Mr. Yerkes and myself, we want to thank you for supporting these amazing opportunities. We consider them vital to the educational experiences of the WDHS music department and look forward to future planning once our national emergency is resolved.
 
Sincerely,
Mr. Kershaw & Mr. Yerkes
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REMOTE LEARNING 2020!

3/15/2020

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​Hello WDHS Concert Band, AP Music Theory and Jazz Band Students,

"Adapt and Overcome" has been a long standing motto of our band program.  The current national emergency is a major disruption to the norms of your education.  However, let's seize an opportunity to achieve under these less than optimal circumstances. This is new for all of us. If we all work together towards common goals, each one of you can be a success story.

Below are the guidelines that will begin our journey into this "virtual" learning process. Please remember that school is not closed. School has only moved into a new format for the upcoming weeks. I imagine some of you will love this, others - not so much. My only advice is for you to DO YOUR BEST.

Here we go...

​Remote Learning Guidelines – Band I-IV (minimum 30 minutes per day)
All band class members will need to complete daily performance recordings of our normal daily routine via Smartmusic. Completion of all daily exercises will be necessary for credit for that day’s class participation. Failure to complete all assigned exercises will result in no credit for that day. As per WDHS remote learning guidelines, students have until midnight each day to complete that day’s assignments. Extensions will not be available for any daily class assignments.

Daily class assignments will include:
  1. Recording of daily warmups
  2. Recording of daily technique exercises
  3. Recording of daily chorale
  4. Recording of concert repertoire selection
Students will be able to choose their appropriate tempi for all daily class recordings. Do your best.

Wind Instrument Players:
Students are expected to use their instruments for all assignments. If your instrument is at the HS, you can obtain it Monday, 3/16 between the hours of 8am-1pm. 
 
Percussionists:
All percussionists will be required to use a drum pad or drum (if available) for all assignments. Pads & sticks will be made available to all students who need them.  If you need a drum pad and/or drum sticks, you can obtain it Monday, 3/16 between the hours of 8am-1pm. 
 
Any students having trouble accessing their Smartmusic accounts must contact Mr. Kershaw via email immediately. Remember! Smartmusic assignments can be done on any computer/ipad with a microphone!

https://www.smartmusic.com/

In addition to daily class assignments, weekly Smartmusic rhythm assignments will continue as normal.

Daily assignments will begin on Tuesday, 3/17/2020. This will allow everyone to obtain their equipment as needed.

Please signup for our class-specific Remind: text @wdcb to the number 81010

Remote Learning Guidelines – AP Music Theory (30-40 minutes per day)
All AP Music Theory class members will need to complete daily assignments via Noteflilght and/or Smartmusic.  Completion of all daily exercises will be necessary for credit for that day’s class participation. Failure to complete all assigned exercises will result in no credit for that day.

Any students having trouble accessing their Noteflight or Smartmusic accounts must contact Mr. Kershaw via email immediately.
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https://www.smartmusic.com/
https://wdap.sites.noteflight.com/

Daily assignments will begin on Tuesday, 3/17/2020. This will allow everyone to obtain their equipment as needed.

Please signup for our class-specific Remind: text @wdap to the number 81010

Remote Learning Guidelines –Jazz Band (minimum 60 minutes on Wednesdays)
 Jazz band members will have an open assignment and be asked to submit anything they choose from our current repertoire which is available in SmartMusic each Wednesday.

There is no requirement to submit recordings, but I would love to hear you guys continue to develop these tunes and share. No grade, no worries.

​Please signup for our class-specific Remind: text @wdjazz to the number 81010
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