***Students should have brought home a plagiarism page for parents and
students to sign so you are aware of this project.
Students who are more than one step behind will be asked to stay after school
on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays until they have caught up.
Students are working on their final test project. We have started to study
the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. We are finding out what
the song is about by researching the lyrics in the library. Students are able
to pick three topics from the year they were assigned from the song. They
need to find out at least five supporting details about each topic and place
them on individual index cards. They also must write down the resource
information on blue cards.
You cannot use wikipedia!!!!
Students will spend one day in the classroom organizing their information
onto a web diagram. It needs to be done by the end of class.
ACE: Thursday, November 12th
BDF: Thursday, November 19th***note change due to three classes missed due to
other events
Students will then write a rough draft of a report on the alpha smarts at
school. This will be due at the beginning of class on
ACE: November 20th
BDF: November 25th at the end of class
Students will then have one class period to make corrections to the rough
draft on the alpha smarts and do the work cited page. The final draft will be
due at the beginning of class on:
ACE: November 24th
BDF: December 3rd
Students need to turn in the final draft, works cited page, rough draft, web
diagram, index cards and blue cards at the end of the project. There will be
several grades given during this project.
definitions students must write down and hand in at each five week marking
period. Definitions they should have written down at five weeks are marked
with an *.
beat: the steady pulse in music.*
tempo: the speed of the beat*
presto: very fast*
allegro: fast or lively*
moderato: moderate*
andante: walking tempo*
adagio: slow*
largo: very slow*
ritardando: to gradually slow down*
accelerando: to gradually speed up*
melody: the tune of the song*
pitch: A specific highness or lowness of a note in a song.*
non-pitch: when a note doesn't have a specific highness or lowness.
step: When a note moves from a space to a line next to it or from a line to
the space next to it.*
leap: When a note moves from a space to another space or further or from a
line to another line or further.*
repeat: when a note stays on the same line or space the previous note was in.*
pattern: an arrangement of shapes, sounds, colors, and events that are
repeated.
form: how music is organized
ostinato: a repeated pattern used to hold a piece of music together.
balance: when there is enough repetition in a piece of music that it helps
the piece stay unified.