Composer Report Criteria

COMPOSER REPORT CRITERIA

This project is 30% of your final grade. You will get approx. 3-4 computer lab days to research your composer in the IMC/185 computer lab. The remainder of the project needs to be completed at home on your home computer. On the due date, you must have all components of the project ready in cluding: Flashdrive, music sample and any extra credit. Each student may earn up to 10 extra credit points by bringing in a Youtube video of your music sample and/or playing or singing a sample of your composers’ music in front of the class.

Composer Power Point Project Grading Scale

PRESENTATION………………………. /20 ANIMATION……………………………...../5 REPORT……………………………… /50 Listening sample (on flashdrive/CD or iPod/M-P3)... /20 Flash drive…………………………………../5

Extra credit……………………../10 REPORT…..………….………/100 TOTAL……………………______

 This is a power point presentation. Students will be drawing a ‘music era’ and must choose a composer from that particular era (ex. Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, etc). Students are required to complete 10 slides that have ‘specific headers’ (see below) . On each slide, you need to have a concrete picture on every slide (no clip art). Gage your font size by proportioning your bullets and pictures to the individual slide. Choose fonts that are easy to ‘see’ and read. You must have 10 slides total. You must have a flashdrive to save work onto and to take it home to work on. The program that you need for power point at home is: MICROSOFT OFFICE

 * If YOU DO NOT HAVE A COMPUTER AT HOME : Students in this situation will have the option to prepare a TYPED OR HAND WRITTEN REPORT~ (see Mrs. Smith for criteria on this option) ~CRITERIA~ 5 Points ~ FLASHDRIVE= You are required to use a flashdrive that has at least 2 GB of memory to save your power point onto and to use at home in working on the project on your home computer. ~You can save your mp3 music sample to your flashdrive or you can save a youtube video to the flashdrive and use that as your music sample. (Directions for how to save a youtube video to flashdrive are on my teacher webage). You should also save your power point to another location for precautionary measures (ex. Home computer file, student file at school, etc.) 20 points~ PRESENTATION=Practice in advance reading your report~ practice pronunciations, articulate words & use vocal inflection during your presentation. Know the ‘meaning’ for all words in your report. 5 Points ~ ANNIMATION= Information first, THEN animation. Do not use automatic timing for your slides or animation on the information. *Use entrance animation for each bullet and picture. 20 points~ MUSIC SAMPLE = the music sample must be brought in on flashdrive, burnt cd, IPod, or MP3 player. (These are the only types of electronic players available in the music room) Your listening sample will be played during your presentation. I prefer instrumental compositions which serve as better background music for presentations. Your selection should last as long as your presentation. I generally recommend a 6-7 minute composition, or set your player to “LOOP” . On the Composer topic sign up sheet (available on my teacher webpage under G.M. Assignments), I have included many suggested listening pieces for you to select from for your composer. If your piece is lengthy, choose the best part of the composition for the class to hear. You can find music samples online, on ITunes, public library, borrow from a friend or relative, store bought (Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. ) or check out for FREE at the Beavercreek Public Library~! (NOTE: if you choose the 5 points extra credit for the youtube video, then you don’t have to include an mp3 sample) 50 points~ Report (10 slides~5 points each slide) Here are the Headers and the correct order for the 10 required slides. If your slides are not in this order, you will have a 5 point deduction.

1. Title Page (include picture of composer, your name and class period, the music title you will be playing during the presentation) 2. Timeline: include the following eras: (Medieval Era, Renaissance Era, Baroque Era, Classical Era, Romantic Era, Nationalistic Era, 20th Century, 21st Century and their years, & include where your composer falls within the timeline including his/her birth & death years. 3. Family : Include mom/dad/brother/sister/ wife/children /where & when they were born, etc. 4. Education/Influcences: Include who ‘trained them’ in music, where they earned a degree for their music career, who they were influenced by musically. 5. Career: Include anything about the composers music career including where they worked, positions they were appointed, etc. 6. Picture Collage: Include a variety of pictures of people and places and concrete objects that directly relate to the composers life. Include text boxing to explain the pictures as to who, what and how. (no clip art) 7. Forms of Music/Compositions (Wikepedia can provide this information or ‘links’ to sites that can give you this information) Include the forms of music that your composer wrote. Include 5-10 specific ‘titles’ of music he/she wrote and include it with the form of music that it belongs with. For example: Beethoven wrote: Orchestral Music ……(sample title: ‘Symphonly No. 9th (Ode to Joy), Concertos …………….(sample title: “______” , Chamber music, ……..(sample title: “______”, Piano music,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (Sample title : “_____”), etc. NOTE: to locate a good site that has the composers forms of music written, type the words, “Complete list of music composed by: ______(name of composer)”

8. Interesting Facts: Pause on this slide as students will be writing down one bullet for their notes from this slide. Include facts that you find appealing and interesting about your composer that students can use as interesting facts for their notes sheet. (NOTE: the fact that they were born in London, England is NOT an interesting fact.) 9. Bibliography: Required 4-10 websites and/or references. Include a picture and text box on this slide! Do not list any search engines that you used when researching (example: Google.com) When using books or magazines, list tiles of Books, author, publishing company & edition/ copyright year & pages used.

10. World Events of the _____Era (optional slide):This are iconic events of the era that you drew ONLY. Include pictures that relate to those events listed. 11. The End: Include a ‘direct quotation’ about music or the composer & include a photo & name of person who stated the quote.

When saving your power point to your flashdrive, follow these simple directions: Plug in your flashdrive into your computers USB port. In the top left corner, Go to the circle with the red/yellow/green symbol & click on it. 1. *Scroll over the “Save As” & then “Click” on Power Point Presentation IF you have the 2007 or newer version of MICROSOFT OFFICE at home…OR click on PowerPoint 97-2003 if you have the 2003 version or older of MICROSOFT OFFICE at home.

2. *Then, in the Save In window at the top, click on the down arrow ~locate and click on, “My Computer” 3. Scroll down and locate your flashdrive (it will say either Cruzer ‘G” or Removable drive A –L, or something similar. …..double Click on it when you locate it. 4. At the bottom of that screen, locate the ‘SAVE AS’ feature and in that window, type your name and last name followed by period number. (ex: John Smith period 3) 5. After you saved the file as YOUR NAME, click SAVE.

*THEN, every time you go in and change, edit or add information, you will need to follow the same process, only when the computer asks if you wish to ‘replace existing information”, you need to hit, YES or you will LOOSE all information that you have added. *SAVE YOUR PROJECT to 2 different locations to have a backup copy of your report. If you loose your flash drive, you will have a 2nd copy saved elsewhere!

*NOTE: There will be 1-2 weeks allotted before we begin presentations. This gives you one week to tweek and finish the report at home. You are required to work on this project at home. NOTE: There will be penalties points applied if student is not prepared to present on the day of presentation, and every day thereafter. (5 points per day) NOTE: There is a list of suggested websites under shared docs. On Mrs. Smith’s teacher webpage. Check: ThinkExist.com for a direct quotation and ‘findagrave.com to find a picture of the composers tombstone!

Choosing When to Give Credit Need to document No need to document

When you are using or referring to someone else’s words When you are writing your own experiences, observations, insights, or ideas from a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV thoughts, or conclusions about a subject program, movie, Web page, computer program, or any other medium When you use information gained through interviewing When you are using “common knowledge” another person When you copy the exact words or a “unique phrase” from When you are compiling generally accepted facts somewhere When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, and When you are writing up your own experimental results pictures When you use ideas that others have given you in conversations or over e-mail

What is “Common Knowledge”?

Material is probably common knowledge if...  You find the same information undocumented in at least five other sources  You think it is information that your readers will already know

Making Sure You Are Safe Writing Process Finished Product  On your note cards, mark Proofread and check with your notes to make sure that everything that is someone else’s anything taken from your notes is acknowledged in some When researching, note- words with big quotation marks combination of the ways listed below: taking, and interviewing  Record all relevant  in-text citation documentation information on  parenthetical documentation your source cards  Works Cited page  Quotation marks  Indirect quotation

 Write your paraphrase and  Begin with a statement giving credit to sources: summary without looking at the According to Jonathan Kozol, ... When paraphrasing and original text, so you rely only on summarizing  Or use parenthetical citation at the end of the your memory. sentence  Check your version with the  Put any unique words or phrases that you cannot original for content, accuracy, change, or do not want to change, in quotation and mistakenly borrowed phrases marks: “savage inequalities” exist throughout our educational system (Kozol 10).

 Keep person’s name near the  Mention the person’s name either at the beginning, quote in your notes and in your middle, or end of the quote or use parenthetical When quoting directly paper or use parenthetical citation. citation at the end of the  Put quotation marks around the text that you are sentence quoting  Select those direct quotes that  Indicate added phrases in brackets ([ ]) and omitted make the most impact in your text with ellipses (. . .) paper – too many quotes may lessen your credibility and interfere with your style  Keep person’s name near the text  Mention the person’s name either at the beginning, in your notes and paper middle, or end of the information When quoting indirectly  Rewrite the key ideas using  Double check to make sure your words and different words and sentence sentence structures differ from the original text structures than the original text

Information on this page is taken in whole or in part from: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_plagiar.html Works Cited Page Notice, the second line of information is always indented. Your works cited page does not need to be numbered, all entries should be listed alphabetically by the first word in each entry.

Book with one author Author last name, first name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999.

Book with more than one author First author’s last name, first name, second author’s first name then last name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000.

Article from a reference book “Article title in quotations.” Book title underlined. Edition #. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of publication.

"Jackson, Thomas" Encyclopedia Britannica. 10th ed. New York: Britannica Corp., 1999.

Magazine or newspaper article Author’s last name, first name. “Article tile in quotations”. Magazine title underlined. Month and year of publication: page numbers.

Trembacki, Paul. "Brees Hopes to Win Heisman for Team." Purdue Exponent 5 Dec. 2000: 20.

Web site Author(Last name, first name). “Article Title.” Name of Page. Date of posting. Name of institution or sponsoring organization. Date of Access.

*If any of the information is not provided on the page, move on to the next requirement. Not all sites provide all information.

Felluga, Dino. “Sojourner Truth.” Africans in History. 2002. PBS online. 12 Mar 2007.