December 17 - 21

Seventh Grade - We are finishing our Jingle and creating our commercials.

Eighth Grade - We are finishing the jazz unit and starting the history of Rock and Roll

Chorus Class - Caroling and Performing our last show of the season.

EIGHTH GRADE RESEARCH PROJECT

Your report: Must be at least 5 paragraphs and must contain –


Biography of Artist (personal details)

History of Artist (musical information)

Influences (Those who influenced the artist and vice versa)

Update (If still living, where is the artist today?)

Any other interesting information about your artist/band

The report MUST be in PARAGRAPH FORM!!!! I do not want bullets or fragments. This MUST be in your own words!!! If you copy and paste from the Internet you will get a zero and be reported for plagiarism.

Back Page –

Artist’s “Greatest Hits” this can be bulleted/list form – this can be a copy/paste from the Internet and does not need to be in paragraph form.

BIBLIOGRAPHY of all Work Cited (at least 2) – all references must be in bibliography for proper credit! www.google.com is not a bibliography – that is a search engine!

DUE Tuesday, December 11

Picture – 10pts

5x5 – 50 pts

Greatest Hits – 10 pts

Bibliography – 20 pts

Presentation – 60 pts

December 3 - 7

Seventh Grade - We will be doing our Found Sound compositions and performances.  We will use a perception chart as we listen to the Unsquare Dance. 

Written Test on the Listening Vocabulary on Thursday!

Friday we will be singing in SAB format!


Eighth Grade - We are learning the 5 chords required for guitar playing in 8th grade.

Written Guitar Test on Thursday! 

We are learning the 12 bar blues scale on Friday.


Chorus Class - Finalizing our stage performance for Baby, It's Cold Outside.  We will be working with the microphones this week.