Favorite Artist/Group Assignment

NOTE: If you bring in a Youtube video on flashdrive of the song you interpret, you will FAVORITE ARTIST/GROUP PARTNER PROJECT receive 5 points EXTRA CREDIT! (Make sure it is appropriate to play at school!) Your Name______Who is your partner? ______Favorite Artist Name______Due Date: ______

circle one if you have a partner , both if you are working alone) Biography or Translation

circle one if you have a partner, both if you are working alone) Picture or Recording with lyrics

Presentation……………… /15 (Practice reading aloud in advance)

Picture/Collage…..………. /10 (On 8 ½ X 11 paper)

Report…………………..……. /50

Lyric/Criteria Sheet……... /5 Pts./5 Pts.

Song Title: ______/15 (Must be the artists’ original composition)

Total……………………….. /100 Extra Credit……………. Total……………………….. /100

(X-credit = performing a song of your favorite artist or preparing a poster collage) (Students must read or present report in order to submit any extra credit towards project)

This is a Take Home Assignment. Prepare a single-spaced typed or hand written report (50 points total). Your report should be in length: 2 page- single space & use black or blue ink. Use 12-14 font size. The information should NOT be copied from your resources, but information re-written in your own words. (Use a Thesauraus & dictionary) Include a bibliography page (separate from report) listing your references and websites. (5 points) You must use at least 3 references. You may list more than 3 references.

50 points for partners- I. BIOGRAPHY of the group/artist: This must include: 25 points for Solo

A. Include the artists or group members’ names both past and NOTE: present~Include first & last names and the instrument(s) they play. Your report B. Include style of music performed and their influences and name only 3 top Note: must be songs and 1-2 top albums. Write your ‘rewritten’ in C. Include personal information like: Where the group or artist is from report in your own (City/State/Country), family, parents, background of career, and people paragraph words~ who influenced them and 2-3 artists they model their own music after. form~ plagiarism Don’t forget your results in a Bibliography ‘zero’ and page (on separate sheet) (5 points) demerits for 2nd offense. D. Include an ‘interesting facts’ paragraph of your artist or group. E. Include a Conclusionary paragraph followed by a trivia question at the end of report. This question should be an ‘interesting fact’ about your artist or group.

50 points for II. Song Translation of your artist/group: This must include: partners- A. A description of the purpose of the song telling why the artist wrote the 25 points for Solo song. B. Other opinions of people from the internet using sites like: songmeaning.com or songfacts.com~if you find other sites, include them in your bibliography. C. Why did you choose this song? Make sure and tell us what the song means to you. D. us what instruments are included in the song sample and any other interesting information about the recording of that song you can find.

NOTE: If you are doing an instrumental, explain the mood of the song and how the music portrays this mood, instruments used and ‘style of music’ (R.& B./Blues/Rock-n-Roll, Progressive Rock, Classic Rock, Jazz, Country, Blues, Rhythm & Blues, etc..) For instrumental music, tell us how the music makes you feel when you listen to it.

III. (10 points) Picture of your Favorite artist. You will pass around the picture during your presentation. Must be sized on an 8 ½ X 11 sheet. You must include text boxing on each picture and include a variety of different pictures of people, places, and things you talk about in your report. (If you decide to do an extra credit poster collage, that will suffice for your picture points as well as a possible 10 extra credit points.

IV. (15 pts) Recorded example of your artist on CD. Bring in a recorded example on CD, MP-3 or I-Pod of your favorite artist or group performing the song of your choice. (Itunes is a good resource to burn a cd sample) (Use CD-R blank CD’s when burning a music sample) V. (5 pts) Provide a print out copy of the lyrics. This must be turned in with your assignment. (You can find the lyrics on the internet. Use any search engine, ex. Google search: type in search window: “title of song” “group name/artist” followed by the word, Lyrics (**If lyrics are inappropriate or you’re not sure what the lyrics are, do not choose it!!!)

VI. (15 PTS) PRESENTATION Read your report to the class. Use articulation, vocal inflection and speak clearly, making sure your voice is audible. NOTE: *Extra credit available IF student chooses to sing or play an example and/or prepares a Poster collage. You CAN earn up to 10 extra points only towards your grade.

*Resources: Internet, reading material, CD Jacket, or public library, magazine, or live interviews of a local artist or group. WHEN SELECTING YOUR SONG, no inappropriate lyrics!!! (ex. profanity, drugs or violence expressed in the lyrics will NOT be acceptable, and student will receive a “0”). Have fun with this assignment and enjoy preparing it!

NOTE: Don’t forget your ‘TRIVIA QUESTION” which goes at the end of your written report..(one from each person if you are paired up with a partner!) (4 points)

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  Or use parenthetical citation at the end of the summarizing 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

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.