Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Happy New Year!

8th Grade: Famous Duo Project
The Famous Duo project includes researching famous Composer-Director teams or Composer-Lyricist teams and putting together a multimedia presentation using PhotoStory. Some examples of the Famous duo's our students are learning about are: John Williams and Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton and Danny Elfman, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.  (50 Point Project)


7th Grade: TV Advertisement Project
This week, the students will begin the TV Advertisement Project.  Each student will create a 30 second commercial using pictures, text, a song they will compose in class using MixCraft 6, and We Video to help it all come to life.  (30 point project)


6th Grade:  Compose a Painting Project
This week the students began a composition project.  First, the students are assigned a famous painting.  The students will analyze their painting using the elements of art (color, texture, line, etc).  Then, they will compose a song to accompany their painting using MixCraft 6.  Later this week, the students will present their painting analysis and composition to the class. (25 Point Project)

Some paintings that the students can choose from are:
American Gothic by Grant Wood
Two Dancers on Stage by Edgar Degas
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

And Many More...

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