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Soundtrack of Your Life

The student will create the soundtrack that would be used if their life were a movie. They are to use 3-5 songs and write a paragraph for each explaining how the song relates to their life, as well as designing the CD cover.

Rubric Code: ZX33679

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Subject: English

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 9-12

Soundtrack of Your Life
	Distinguished 30 pts	Proficient 20 pts	Emerging 10 pts	Unacceptable 0 pts
CD Cover Design	Distinguished design is attractive/neat; symbols, pictures, drawings are relevant to the theme; list of songs and titles appear.	Proficient design is attractive; some lack of neatness in effort; symbols, pictures, drawings are mostly relevant to the theme; lists of songs and titles appear.	Emerging lack of neatness in effort; symbols, pictures, drawings seem barely relevant to the theme; list of songs and titles appear.	Unacceptable neatness not considered; very little relevance of symbols, pictures, drawings to the theme; list of songs and titles do not appear.
Grammar, Capitalization & Punc.	Distinguished 0-1 errors in grammar, capitalization, and punctuation, and/or spelling	Proficient 2-3 errors in grammar, capitalization, and punctuation, and/or spelling	Emerging 4-5 errors in grammar, capitalization, and punctuation and/or spelling	Unacceptable 6 or more errors in grammar, capitalization, and punctuation and/or spelling
Song Choice Relevance
Introduction and Conclusion	Distinguished Introduction and conclusion exist and meet the criteria set by the teacher.	Proficient Both the introduction and conclusion exist but do not meet the criteria set by the teacher.	Emerging Either the introduction or the conclusion exists but does not meet the criteria set by the teacher.	Unacceptable Neither and introduction or conclusion exist.
Song 1	Distinguished Relevance of song is clear, and all reasons for the song choice clearly relate to the main idea of the song.	Proficient Relevance of song is evident, but not all reasons for the song choice relate to the main idea of the song.	Emerging Relevance of song is minimal and most reasons for the song choice do not relate to the main idea of the song.	Unacceptable Relevance of song is not evident, and reasons for the song choice do not relate to the main idea of the song.
Song 2	Distinguished Relevance of song is clear, and all reasons for the song choice clearly relate to the main idea of the song.	Proficient Relevance of song is evident, but not all reasons for the song choice relate to the main idea of the song.	Emerging Relevance of song is minimal and most reasons for the song choice do not relate to the main idea of the song.	Unacceptable Relevance of song is not evident, and reasons for the song choice do not relate to the main idea of the song.
Song 3	Distinguished Relevance of song is clear, and all reasons for the song choice clearly relate to the main idea of the song.	Proficient Relevance of song is evident, but not all reasons for the song choice relate to the main idea of the song.	Emerging Relevance of song is minimal and most reasons for the song choice do not relate to the main idea of the song.	Unacceptable Relevance of song is not evident, and reasons for the song choice do not relate to the main idea of the song.
Effort and time management
Effort and time management	Distinguished Student was thoroughly engaged during class and stayed on task at all times. Student acted as a self-directed learner and needed little guidance.	Proficient Student was not thoroughly engaged in lesson and often had to be redirected for getting off task. Student was mostly self-directed	Emerging Student was not thoroughly engaged in lesson and often had to be redirected for getting off task. student was needy and not self-directed.	Unacceptable Student was thoroughly engaged during class and stayed on task at all times. Student showed no self-direction

Keywords:

English, Poetry, Music, Soundtrack

Subjects:

English

Types:

Project

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