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The Music of The Pearl

Make a CD/Soundtrack with six songs representing themes, characters and symbols from the novel with an explanation for each song choice. You will create a CD cover, a back cover and fold-out pages on which you provide the name/artist of each song that you choose and provide illustrations inspired by the motifs and symbols present in the novel. The cover design and the choice of songs will be explained in a written document.

Rubric Code: HXWCW25

By sclunie

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Subject: English

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12

Album/CD Music Soundtrack 100 %
	Excellent - 4 points (N/A)	Good - 3 points (N/A)	Fair - 2 points (N/A)	Poor - 1 point (N/A)
Song Choices 100 %	Excellent - 4 points Student's song choice shows full knowledge of the book. Songs show connections to themes and characters.	Good - 3 points Student's song choice shows familiarity with the content of the novel. There are some connections to themes and characters.	Fair - 2 points Student's song choice shows limited knowledge of the content of the novel. Songs might relate to the book but show little relevance to themes and characters.	Poor - 1 point Student's song choice shows no relation to the themes or characters of the book.
Song Explanation 100 %	Excellent - 4 points Student typed five to six complete sentences explaining why each song was chosen. Explanations provide great detail, with lyrics and textual references to support.	Good - 3 points Student typed five incomplete sentences or four complete sentences explaining why each song was chosen. Explanations include very little detail or little textual reference.	Fair - 2 points Student typed four incomplete sentences for each song explaining why the song was chosen OR only explained some of the song choices. Explanations were provided, but not in sufficient detail to support the songs' inclusion.	Poor - 1 point Student typed one or less than one sentence for each song that briefly explained why each song was chosen OR only explained some of the song choices. Explanations were not related or were missing.
CD Cover - Appearance 100 %	Excellent - 4 points Neat, polished. Could be used as actual cover artwork.	Good - 3 points Fairly neat - could be tidied with a few changes.	Fair - 2 points Untidy, messy, shows little effort.	Poor - 1 point Very messy.
Mechanics, Grammar & Spelling 100 %	Excellent - 4 points Writer makes no or few errors in mechanics, grammar, or spelling that distract the reader from the content.	Good - 3 points Writer makes some errors (4-6) in mechanics, grammar, or spelling that distract the reader from the content.	Fair - 2 points Writer makes several errors (7-9) in mechanics, grammar, or spelling that distract the reader from the content.	Poor - 1 point Writer makes 10 or more errors in mechanics, grammar, spelling that greatly distract the reader from the content.
Cover Explanation 100 %	Excellent - 4 points Cover art is fully explained and it relates very well to the novel.	Good - 3 points Cover art is almost fully explained. One element is missing.	Fair - 2 points Cover art is marginally explained. Two or more elements missing.	Poor - 1 point Cover art has no correlation to the novel.

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book report, writing, literature, soundtrack

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English

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