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Students will create a "school appropriate" playlist of songs that represent their life. Once students have finished making their playlist, they will then create an iMovie with some of the songs they chose as well as some pictures to represent their life.

This rubric will assess piano performance.

Work with a rock band of no less than 6 people to create your own song and perform it for the class on the instruments you learned in class (drum set, keyboard, guitar, bass guitar, and voice).

This is a rubric for grading a brochure about the music of a specific country.

Students create a music unit test in regards to what they have learned this quarter about music theory.

List multiple important dates, facts, and/or composers from the history of a chosen genre. Once you have finished your list, you will then use that list to create an original history of a genre timeline. You may present your timeline using one of the following creative ways: Poster, Pamphlet, Newspaper, Rap or Song, Tri-Foldable, or any other teacher approved format. This is NOT a group project.

Research the music from a country of your choice. With the information you researched, you will create a Presentation and a creative game with multiple topics in order to teach the class about the music of your country. Students will present their information to the class via a Presentation (Slideshow) and then the class will play the game that the students created. This is a group project of no more than 3 students.

Imagine that you are the host on your very own podcast. On your show, you will be interviewing 3 famous musicians (dead or alive) of the selected genre. Create an original script to discuss their life as well as their influence in the music industry. You will then create your Podcast. This is a group project of 3-4 students.

Students will pick an era of music history to research (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic or 20th Century) along with their respective composers. Research will be developed into a presentation project of their choice. They may use computers, video, audio, posters, etc. for their project presentation.

Students are to choose a certain country besides the United States, and they are to research the music of that country. They will be typing a 2 page paper as well as create a presentation for the entire class to view.

Students are to do a 2 page research paper on the history of a genre of their choosing. They will also be creating a GarageBand project that fits the genre they chose.

Students will research their instrument that they have chosen to play. Students will then take their research and present it in a creative way. Such ways could be a poster, a slideshow, make a mobile, a video or documentary, a tri-foldable, newspaper, etc.

Students will learn how to plan for a three-day music festival and will have to accomplish the following things: Planning with a budget, creating a layout for a festival; building a daily schedule; advertising for the festival; and working with and presenting a final product to a client.

Students are to use iMovie to incorporate musical elements to a children's storybook in which students will be able to share with their classmates and/or other elementary students. Students will take pictures of each page of their book, they will then record themselves and add the audio to their iMovie, and finally, they will then add music and/or sound effects to their iMovie.