Music Newsletter
VA Sol Music IB.20 The student will identify career options in music.
Designed by Ryan Fagan faganr@vcu.edu
INTRODUCTION The Richmond Dispatch wants to do a layout on music jobs but have run into a problem! None of the reporters or editors know anything about Music.
THE TASK
Your job is to find all the careers in music and write an article about them. These articles will be put into a newsletter for the paper. The members of your group will split into one editor and four reporters. Each report will investigate a musical profession and write an article. The editor’s job will be to put all of these articles together on word with pictures or clip art included. Each reporter must report on a different profession. Reporters need to investigate on how much education these professions need, what do their jobs entail, where do these people generally live, and any extra information including at least one person in this profession.
THE PROCESS
The class will be split up into groups of five. As a group, the editor and report jobs will be assigned. Decide what music professions the reporters will investigate. Each reporter will write a three paragraph article on that specific profession then turn it over to the editor. 5. The editor will then put all of the articles into one newsletter including pictures or clipart. 6. The editor will then turn the newsletter into Miss Fagan. 7. Miss Fagan will then turn the newsletters into a newspaper on which each group will present their newsletters to the class. RESOURCES http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/professions/professions.htm 1. 2. 3. 4.
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/ http://www.menc.org http://education.nyu.edu/music/page.php?page_id=868 http://www.google.com http://www.ask.com EVALUATION
1 participation Student was often not on task.
2 Student was sometimes on task. Assignment was turned in, but not on time.
3 Student was on task most of the time. Assignment was turned in on time. Student found good information on profession, and wrote with few grammatical errors or student laidout newsletter with pictures. Students presented in a clear voice audible to all students in the classroom. They were somewhat confident and knew what they were presenting.
4 Student was consistently on task and assignment was turned in on time.
Scores
Content of Project
Students only found basic information on the profession or only pasted together the project.
Students found information of the profession but did not wrote with many grammatical errors.
Student found great information about the profession including one person in that field and wrote a clear concise article. Or student laid-out a great newsletter with many pictures
Presentation
Student was very hard to hear during their presentation and were not confident.
Student presented in a voice that was hard to hear for all students. They were somewhat confident about what they were presenting.
Students presented in a clear voice audible to all students in the classroom. They were confident and knew what they were presenting.
TOTAL
CONCLUSION Through this project you have learned about the music professions. You have seen that studying music is not just about becoming a teacher or a professional musician, but there are so many more opportunities.
CREDITS & REFERENCES
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/Music/musicl.html#soldocumen ts http://webquest.sdsu.edu/materials.htm http://www.4dw.net/besteacher/MusicWebquest/MusicWebquest.html http://www.allfreeclipart.com/music2.html http://www.people.vcu.edu/~cjbaedke/wqdocs/Music_IAD20_marek.doc
Based on a template from the
WebQuest Page. Updated Spring 2006