Happy Holidays!

We are celebrating the end of the year and the onset of winter break with a movie this week: The Da Vinci Code.  Students have submitted their music unit final assessment pieces: their annotated lyrics, paragraph outline and letter to a musical artist.  When we return in January, we will begin a media study.

I hope you all have a safe and restful break.  I look forward to working with you again in 2013.

Music Unit... it's a wrap!

We spent today in the library, finishing off our letter to the musical artist who sings the song we analyzed.  By now, you should have completed the following three things as a summary to our music unit:

• lyrics with notations about your thoughts
• paragraph outline on the song
• letter to the musical artist

I will mark these over the break and return them to you in the new year.

Music Unit Final Project

Today, Wednesday and Friday we are finishing up our music unit, with our final project.  There are three assignments to be completed:

• lyrics for a song of your choice, annotated with your thoughts
• paragraph outline for the song
• letter to the musical artist who sings your song (two copies)

Each assignment has its own set of criteria for evaluation.  Refer to the assignment outlines I gave you for this criteria.