These are some lessons that I did as a unit on a 4 week school week in a middle school music appreciation class. We discussed the timbres of instruments, different ensembles, and different genres. The recorded music can all be found using either Spotify or YouTube. For the first two lessons the students took notes (I did not require them to know specifics about composers) and the third lesson they had a “close” worksheet to follow. The fourth day was the test. I took the ideas for the first two lessons from the Silver-Burdett Making Music curriculum. The PowerPoints are my own. You could easily explore more of the music and add a fifth day for review or more listening.
(If you’re not sure of the answers I can send you the key.)